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An excerpt from Branko Milanovic's book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World. The book examines how the greatest changes in global incomes — the creation of a new upper class in China, and the decline of the middle class in the U.S. — since the Industrial Revolution are likely to influence the global economy in the next century.

Stone Center Junior Scholar and John Jay College of Criminal Justice Ph.D. Candidate Jim Riungu discusses his work as an environmental lawyer and the need for more research on areas of environmental criminology in the Global South.

Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar Naomi Crowther, an economist whose research focuses on topics such as gendered wealth inequality and the effects of forced displacement, discusses her recent working paper, her ongoing projects, and why she decided to earn a doctoral degree after working in research for international institutions.

Stone Center Junior Scholar and third-year doctoral student Paisley Shultz discusses her interest in industrial-organizational psychology and how it applies to questions related to socio-economic inequality, such as pay disclosure among coworkers.

Hear from two leading economic thinkers about how to solve the complex crisis of affordability.

When Junior Scholar Bobbie Justin came to the Graduate Center, she already had more than a decade of experience working directly with patients as a medical social worker. She entered the Ph.D. program in Social Welfare determined to focus her research on improving care for older adults with disabilities.

An eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars will join the Stone Center for two-year appointments that begin in August 2026. Jasmine Simington was selected for the position that focuses on wealth inequality and is affiliated with the GC Wealth Project. Christopher Pulliam was selected for the position that broadly focuses on mobility and poverty.

Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury of MIT's Sloan School of Management and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business discuss their Stone Center working paper: “The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from U.S. Academia."

Funding from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation supports the public scholarship of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at a pivotal time.

Stone Center Junior Scholar and Ph.D. candidate Shou-Ming Chang, who worked as a legislative assistant in the parliament of Taiwan before coming to the Graduate Center, discusses his research, his interests in methods of measuring inequality, and what he learned from his government role.