Our Second Two Postdocs Have Been Selected
Bennett Callaghan and Jaquelyn Jahn will join the Stone Center in September 2020.
Analysis: The Real Pandemic Danger Is Social Collapse — As the Global Economy Comes Apart, Societies May, Too
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.
Redistribution and the Quality of Government: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
B. Petrova. British Journal of Political Science. vol. 51, no. 1. pp. 374–393. 2020.
Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies
A. Lindh and L. McCall. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 10. 2020.
From Workers to Capitalists in Less Than Two Generations: A Study of Chinese Urban Elite Transformation Between 1988 and 2013
L. Yang, F. Novokmet, and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 06. 2020.
Inequality, Crisis, and the Possibility of Change
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.
Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
P. Krugman. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2020.
Conference on Coalitional Democracy (Virtual)
This conference will discuss a vision and a plan of action for an intersectional and multidimensional coalitional democracy.
Analysis: Which Americans Shouldn’t Get Government Aid?
In his New York Times newsletter, Paul Krugman discusses the political debate over who should and who shouldn’t receive government aid.
Analysis: The Clash of Capitalisms — The Real Fight for the Global Economy’s Future
In Foreign Affairs, Branko Milanovic discusses the U.S. and China's competing brands of capitalism and what it means for future inequality.