Income Inequality

Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic discusses the recent update of his All the Ginis (ATG) dataset, which now covers the period from 1950 to 2024 and includes 6,762 Ginis from 183 countries or territories. He also explains the continuing challenges in improving the production and collection of data on national income inequalities, and gives a warning about technological change.

F. Alvaredo, F. Bourguignon, F. H. G. Ferreira, C. Lakner, and N. Lustig. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 131. 2026.

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.

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.

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

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

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

P. Erfurth, M.G. León, G. Gabbuti, and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 122. 2026.

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

F. H. G. Ferreira, V. Peragine, P. Brunori, P. Salas-Rojo, D. Moramarco, L. Barajas, T. Barbieri, N. Daza-Báez, G. Datt, V. de Sandi, F. Farella, A. Martinez, Jr., J. Nguyen, A. Park, E. Simeone, L. Sirugue, P. Torres López, and G. Zotti. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 120. 2026.