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October 2025
This fall brings a relaunched Stone Center website! You’ll find the latest news and research on our homepage, a reorganized menu, and other changes that make the site easier to navigate. Check out our 350+ interviews, blog posts, research spotlights, videos, working papers, and more, as well as the new Explore Our Work feature, which allows you to find content by Topic, Category, and Scholar.
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“Understanding Inequality,” by Paul Krugman
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“Understanding Inequality” — a seven-part series of blog posts by Senior Scholar Paul Krugman — covers topics ranging from cryptocurrency, unions, oligarchs, and a diversion or two along the way:
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“New Capitalism in America,” by Branko Milanovic
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| Branko Milanovic’s series “New Capitalism in America” explores why capital is so concentrated, whether all class-bases societies are unequal, and why the richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people:
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Beyond National Accounts: Consumer Durables and Offshore Wealth
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| In this tutorial, recent Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Max Longmuir shows how to use the Wealth Topography section of the GC Wealth Project site to compare and visualize forms of wealth in various countries. |
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The Economic Impacts of Childhood Health: Postdoc Marai Hayes on Her Research
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| Marai Hayes, one of the Stone Center’s new postdoctoral scholars, discusses her research projects, how she became interested in the connections between health and inequality, and the likely impacts of recent federal health policy changes. |
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Lane Kenworthy’s New Book Takes on a Controversial Question: Is Inequality the Problem?
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| Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Lane Kenworthy discusses his latest book, which examines whether reducing income inequality would have beneficial effects on living standards, health, economic opportunity, the functioning of democracy, and measures of happiness. |
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Multidisciplinary Seminar Series: Upcoming Presentations
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| Our postdoctoral scholars host biweekly seminars on Wednesdays from 10 am to 11 pm (EDT) in a hybrid format. Upcoming seminars will feature Juliet-Nil Uraz, Melanie Meng Xue, Madeline Woker, and Gastón Nievas. See the schedule and registration information. |
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Budget Justice: Book Launch, Reading & Conversation with Celina Su
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| Join author Celina Su for an in-person reading and conversation with Liza Featherstone and Kesi Foster to celebrate the launch of Su’s book Budget Justice. Wednesday, November 12, from 6 pm to 8 pm at the Graduate Center. Registration required. |
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Contemporary China: Demystifying Economic and Social Changes
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| Watch Yong Cai, Qin Gao, Rongbin Han, and Branko Milanovic, in a panel moderated by John Torpey, discuss the vast economic and societal changes that have transformed China in recent decades. |
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If Not Government, then What? A Three-Part Typology of Redistributive Preferences
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| Watch Leslie McCall deliver her keynote address at LSE’s September conference, “The III at 10: New Directions in Inequality Research.” The keynote analyzes public support for the idea that major institutions and actors in the market sphere should reduce inequality in labor earnings. |
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Stone Center Working Paper Series: Recent Additions
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The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, a research center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, conducts and promotes quantitative research using inequality as a lens on society, the economy, and politics. The faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and students working within the Stone Center share a commitment to scholarship that is data-driven, interdisciplinary, oriented toward policy and institutional change, and that addresses questions about inequality throughout the world.
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