Economic Policy

Jacob Faber, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, assembles archival and census data from the past one hundred years to examine the long-term impact of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC, which was responsible for redlining) on large, enduring Black-white disparities in home ownership.

S. K. Bruch, J. van der Naald, and J. C. Gornick. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 56. 2022.

Branko Milanovic discusses expert knowledge and policy-making in this interview by Miloš Vojinović of the European University Institute (EUI) as part of their series on the crisis of expert knowledge and authority.

Paul Krugman leads a panel of experts who will discuss the current economy's high inflation and low unemployment, and the policies that can help the U.S. avoid a recession.

In this interview, University of California-San Diego sociologist and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Lane Kenworthy discusses his latest book, “Would Democratic Socialism Be Better?”

E. Aerts, I. Marx, and Z. Parolin. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 51. 2022.

A research spotlight on Chloe Thurston’s chapter in The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power looks at how the U.S. government’s delegation of social policy goals to the markets enables and reinforces racial inequalities.

A. Lindh and L. McCall. Socio-Economic Review. 2022.

This text by Paul Krugman was originally presented as the spring Seminar in Applied Economics at the Graduate Center.

J. Gornick and E. Sierminska. Journal of European Social Policy. vol. 31, no. 5. pp. 549–564. 2021.