Macroeconomy

Branko Milanovic joins Angella MacEwen and Wolfgang Schmidt in a panel discussion moderated by John Torpey, director of the European Union Studies Center.

Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman answers a few questions about globalization ahead of his online event, co-sponsored by The Graduate Center and the Stone Center.

In this presentation, Branko Milanovic presents an overview of trends in global income inequality, both between and within countries, from the early 1800s to the present.

In this presentation, Paul Krugman analyses the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and the form of inequality that the U.S. is currently experiencing.

B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 18. 2020.

I. Bleynat, A. Challú, and P. Segal. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 16. 2020.

In Bloomberg, a look at wealth inequality and the pandemic with Salvatore Morelli.

In this commentary, Stone Center faculty — Miles Corak, Janet Gornick, Paul Krugman, Leslie McCall, Branko Milanovic, and Salvatore Morelli — each with unique expertise in the study of inequality, offer insights on the COVID-19 crisis.

In Foreign Affairs, Branko Milanovic says advanced societies must not allow economics, particularly the fortunes of financial markets, to blind them to the fact that the most important role economic policy can play now is to keep social bonds strong under this extraordinary pressure.

In this interview, Branko Milanovic discusses recent political instability, trends in policy on inequality, and a way to break the 1 percent’s “quasi-automatic” increasing share of capital.