Redistribution

An excerpt from Branko Milanovic's latest book, The World Under Capitalism: Observations on Economics Politics, History, and Culture, a 2025 collection of his essays from the last decade.

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

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

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.

Join author Celina Su for a reading and conversation with Liza Featherstone and Kesi Foster to celebrate the launch of Su's book Budget Justice.

Part VI of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s series “Understanding Inequality,” which originally appeared on his Substack newsletter.

In this post, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Zhexun Mo, an economist whose research focuses on the intersection of political economics, development, and economic history, reflects on the Center’s recent international workshop.

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.

Salvatore Morelli, whose research was cited by The Economist in a recent article on the “return of inheritocracy,” discusses the surge in inherited wealth, what this means for wealth inequality, and potential solutions for the negative effects of the ongoing Great Wealth Transfer.

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.