Videos

In the West, China is easily misunderstood. Is it capitalist or communist, an adversary or a vital economic partner, a modernized nation or a retrograde regime? Yong Cai, Qin Gao, Rongbin Han, and Branko Milanovic, address these questions in a panel moderated by John Torpey.

Leslie McCall delivers a keynote address at "The III at 10: New Directions in Inequality Research," a two-day conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of the London School of Economics' International Inequalities Institute.

Branko Milanovic discusses global inequality with host Sanjay Ruparelia, a professor in the Department of Politics & Public Administration and the Jarislowsky Democracy Chair at Toronto Metropolitan University. The event took place on April 24, 2025 in the Toronto Public Library.

Leaders of both political parties are promoting economic and social policies that challenge key tenets of neoliberalism. Where do the parties overlap and diverge, and what are the real prospects for change? Chris Hughes, Leslie McCall, and Dorian T. Warren discuss these issues in a panel moderated by Felicia Wong.

Paul Krugman speaks with Zachary D. Carter, author of an award-winning biography of John Maynard Keynes, the great 20th-century thinker and father of macroeconomics, about what Keynes' life and ideas can teach us about today’s debates over government spending and inequality.

Stone Center associate director Leslie McCall speaks with Matías Bargsted of COES (Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social) in connection with her presentation at the COES tenth international conference.

Leslie McCall, associate director of the Stone Center and Presidential Professor of Sociology and Political Science, discusses public opinion about inequality, wages, and related economic and policy issues in a video for the Russell Sage Foundation, where she was a 2023–2024 visiting scholar.

In this video, Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic joins "Emancipations" podcast host Daniel Tutt to discuss Marx and the problem of inequality.

Salvatore Morelli, the director of the GC Wealth Project and a Stone Center Senior Scholar, and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Daniel Waldenström discuss Waldenström's new book, Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West.

Authors Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman discuss how the U.S. controls a global network of communication and finance, the subject of their new book, in this conversation with Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman.