News and Commentary

The Stone Center has established a new postdoctoral program that will support two scholars beginning in the 2019–2020 academic year and two beginning in the 2020–2021 year.

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation awarded a gift of $1.2 million to the Stone Center to launch a new postdoctoral scholars program.

Our Stone Center scholar talks about economic inequality and how people view inequality with former-COES fellow Cristóbal Moya.

The Stone Center served as host of the Seventh Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). Watch the featured keynote lectures.

In this video, an expert panel delves into the classic debate between laissez-faire and interventionism, as it plays out in our nation’s politics.

In this video, Kathryn Edin explains her work with the next generation of working-class men.

The week-long workshop "Inequality by the Numbers” took a broad approach to the study of socio-economic inequalities, covering disparities in income, wealth, education, social mobility, and happiness.

In the Second Annual Stone Lecture on Wealth Inequality, Edward N. Wolff discusses the interplay between wealth and income in America.

As a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. tax code goes into effect, experts with different points of view discuss its implications and ways of redesigning our current system to benefit all.

In this video, Stone Center scholars take a critical look at Richard V. Reeves' book, Dream Hoarders.