Building Political Alliances Across Race and Class
A panel discussion of how diverse coalitions across race and class can bring about much needed change to our political system, institutions, and social policies.
The Great Resignation
More than 20 million workers quit their jobs in the second half of 2021. What is behind this trend? Paul Krugman leads a panel of experts in discussion.
Collective Action, Law, and the Fragmented Development of the American Labor Movement
In this post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Alexander Hertel-Fernandez analyzes the history of the U.S. labor movement. The text was originally published as a book chapter in The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power.
Wealth Accumulation and Retirement Preparedness in Cross-national Perspective: A Gendered Analysis of Outcomes Among Single Adults
J. Gornick and E. Sierminska. Journal of European Social Policy. vol. 31, no. 5. pp. 549–564. 2021.
Why Economists Should Think Like Sociologists: An Interview with Steven Durlauf
In this interview, University of Chicago economist and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Steven Durlauf discusses his working paper on the Great Gatsby Curve and how sociology has influenced his work on poverty, inequality, and economic growth.
Uncertainty and the Global Value Chain, and How to Respond to Job Loss: an Interview with Gordon Hanson
In this interview, Harvard Kennedy School’s Gordon Hanson, who is a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses pandemic-related trade disruptions and some of his recent work.
Quesnay, Smith, Ricardo, and Marx: Branko Milanovic on How the Founders of Political Economics Saw Inequality
In this interview, Branko Milanovic discusses what the writings of four classical economists reveal about their perceptions of income inequality.
The Stone Center’s First Postdocs Reflect on Their Two Years at the Graduate Center and Look Toward the Future
In this interview, Bilyana Petrova and Marco Ranaldi discuss what they learned at the Stone Center and the new positions they will be starting this fall.
Mothers ‘Working’ from Home: Setback or Salvation?
In this commentary, Nancy Folbre, director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the unequal impact of remote work on women.
The Real Urban Wage in an Agricultural Economy Without Landless Farmers: Serbia 1862–1910
B. Mijatović and B. Milanovic. The Economic History Review. vol. 74, no. 2. pp. 424–448. 2021.