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Income Inequality

  • Visiting Researcher Jakob Dirksen on Measuring Multidimensional Inequalities in the U.S. and Perceptions of Inequality

    Jakob Dirksen, a visiting researcher at the Stone Center who is based at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford, discusses his current projects and research goals.

  • Excerpt from “The Great Global Transformation” by Branko Milanovic

    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.

  • Affordability, Antitrust, and Inequality: Lina M. Khan and Paul Krugman in Conversation

    Hear from two leading economic thinkers about how to solve the complex crisis of affordability.

  • Economic Inequality and Social Mobility in Preindustrial Societies: What We Know, What We Don’t (But Should) Know

    G. Alfani. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 126. 2026.

  • Capitalization of the World: Global Distribution of Income from Property, 2000–2020

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

  • Historical Social Tables: Advantages, Methodology, and Problems

    Erfurth et al. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 122. 2026.

  • Affordability, Antitrust, and Inequality: Lina M. Khan and Paul Krugman in Conversation

    Hear from two leading economic thinkers about how to solve the complex crisis of affordability.

  • Global Estimates of Opportunity and Mobility: A Database

    F. H. G. Ferreira et al. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 120. 2026.

  • The “Missing Rich” in Household Surveys: Causes and Correction Approaches (Extended Version with Technical Appendixes)

    N. Lustig and A. Vigorito. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 119. 2025.

  • The Illusion of “Degrowth” in a Poor and Unequal World

    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.

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