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Stone Center Director Janet Gornick and GC Wealth Project Director Salvatore Morelli took part in a recent meeting of the International Panel on Inequality Founding Committee, an international group of experts and officials who are seeking to establish a permanent global panel to fight inequality.

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.

B. Milanovic and M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 125. 2026.

Experts discuss Branko Milanovic's timely new book on the changing roles of the U.S. and China as global powers.

An excerpt from Branko Milanovic's latest book, The World Under Capitalism: Observations on Economics Politics, History, and Culture, a 2025 collection of his essays from the last decade.

Branko Milanovic discusses his new book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World, with Kirsten Sehnbruch at an event hosted by LSE's International Inequalities Institute. 

N. Bharti, A. Gethin, T. Jenmana, Z. Mo, T, Piketty, and L. Yang. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 114. 2025.

In this post, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Zhexun Mo, an economist whose research focuses on the intersection of political economics, development, and economic history, reflects on the Center’s recent international workshop.

L. Yang, B. Milanovic, and Y. Lin. European Journal of Political Economy. vol. 85. 2024.