Economic Policy

M. Kasy and L. Lehner. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 67. 2023.

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as speaker and the chief architect of generation-defining legislation including the Affordable Care Act and the American Rescue Plan, speaks with Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman.

Nancy Krieger, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, provides an in-depth review of her lifelong research on public health disparities across geographical areas and their historical origins in racial structures such as Jim Crow, and her ongoing development of area-based social and health metrics in the pandemic age.

James Parrott, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, provides an update on his 2020 presentation, showing long-term trends in wages, employment, and inequality in New York City, including during the pandemic, and demonstrating the importance of local public policy in reducing racial and economic inequality.

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.