News and Commentary

In this video, experts discuss the prospects for a fairer world now that capitalism is the predominant economic system.

In Foreign Affairs, Branko Milanovic discusses the U.S. and China's competing brands of capitalism and what it means for future inequality.

In this spotlight on data, Leslie McCall discusses how marriage and cohabitation — relative to being single — affect where men and women fall along the income distribution.

In this video, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman discuss their recent book and why the United States needs to increase wealth taxes to combat inequality.

In this blog post, Nishant Yonzan looks at three definitions of income and finds they all show significant drops in prosperity for the bottom 50 percent.

In this interview, Salvatore Morelli explains why wealth inequality is in some ways a more dangerous threat than income inequality.

Branko Milanovic's global inequality research is featured in this article on the predictability of inequality cycles.

In The Economist, Miles Corak weighs in on some of Canada's economic challenges for sustaining its middle class.

His three-year honorary appointment will help to strengthen ties between the Stone Center and LSE’s International Inequalities Institute.

In his weekly newsletter for The New York Times, Paul Krugman discusses why we should be discussing the economic super elite.