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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.

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.

J. Hasell, S. Morelli, and M. Roser. In Reducing Social Inequalities in Cancer: Evidence and Priorities for Research. S. Vaccarella, J. Lortet-Tieulent, R. Saracci, D. Conway, K. Straif, and C. Wild (eds). pp. 205-227. Lyon: IARC Scientific Publication No. 168. 2018.

Watch the inaugural Stone Wealth Inequality Lecture by Gabriel Zucman, in which he talks about tax evasion and inequality.

In this video, Swedish sociologist Robert Erikson delivered the first Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture.

In this post for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Salvatore Morelli discusses inequality's potential impact on macroeconomic performance and financial stability.

B. Milanovic. In After Piketty: The Agenda for Politics and Inequality. H. Boushey, J.B. DeLong, and M. Steinbaum (eds). pp. 235-258. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2017.

B. Milanovic and J.E. Roemer. Journal of Globalization and Development (De Gruyter). vol. 7, no. 1. pp. 109-115. 2016.

Is globalization responsible for increased income inequality? Watch three experts and Graduate Center professors explore the complex relationship between these large-scale economic trends.