Political Beliefs/Public Opinion

Paul Krugman speaks with Zachary D. Carter, author of an award-winning biography of John Maynard Keynes, the great 20th-century thinker and father of macroeconomics, about what Keynes' life and ideas can teach us about today’s debates over government spending and inequality.

Stone Center associate director Leslie McCall speaks with Matías Bargsted of COES (Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social) in connection with her presentation at the COES tenth international conference.

Leslie McCall, associate director of the Stone Center and Presidential Professor of Sociology and Political Science, discusses public opinion about inequality, wages, and related economic and policy issues in a video for the Russell Sage Foundation, where she was a 2023–2024 visiting scholar.

Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar Zhexun Mo discusses two recent papers he contributed to the Stone Center Working Paper Series that focus on perceptions of inequality and redistribution in China.

A panel of experts discusses today's shifting economic landscape and the possibilities for change.

M. Belguise, N. Y. Chen, Y. Huang, and Z. Mo. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 97. 2024.

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman reintroduces his Substack newsletter. He also discusses parallels between current and past efforts "to bring a business sensibility" to the federal budget, with the goal of eliminating inefficiency. 

M. Belguise, Y. Huang, and Z. Mo. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 93. Revised 2025.

Suresh Naidu, a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar and a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, discusses who is currently benefiting the most from the union premium, the data challenges in historical research on unions and how he overcame them, and the significant barriers U.S. workers still face in forming a union.

In this post, former Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Bilyana Petrova explains the recently published paper she coauthored with Marco Ranaldi, also a former Stone Center postdoctoral scholar.