Political Beliefs/Public Opinion

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.

Celina Su discusses her most recent book, Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities, which examines participatory budgeting, a process through which neighbors gather to discuss proposals for funding projects related to community interests.

Affiliated Scholar Maximilian Kasy discusses his new book, The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits), which offers a convincing argument for democratic control over AI’s objectives.

M. Belguise, N. Y. Chen, Y. Huang, and Z. Mo. European Journal of Political Economy. vol. 87. 2025.

Z. Mo, K. Kaeppel, C. Schröder, and L. Yang. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 115. 2025.

Kenworthy, a professor of sociology and the Yankelovich Chair in Social Thought at the University of California, San Diego, discusses the findings in his latest book, which examines whether reducing income inequality would have beneficial effects on living standards, health, economic opportunity, the functioning of democracy, and subjective measures of happiness.

F. Disslbacher, M. Haselmayer, L. Lehner, S. Rapp, and F. Windisch. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 112. 2025.

In the West, China is easily misunderstood. Is it capitalist or communist, an adversary or a vital economic partner, a modernized nation or a retrograde regime? Yong Cai, Qin Gao, Rongbin Han, and Branko Milanovic, address these questions in a panel moderated by John Torpey.

Leslie McCall delivers a keynote address at "The III at 10: New Directions in Inequality Research," a two-day conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of the London School of Economics' International Inequalities Institute.