Wealth Inequality

Why is capital so concentrated and why do so few have it? Stone Center Senior Scholar and GC CUNY Research Professor Branko Milanovic discusses capital income and how it functions under new capitalism in this final post of his three-part series.

Are all class-based societies unequal? Stone Center Senior Scholar and GC CUNY Research Professor Branko Milanovic discusses the differences between compositional and income inequality in this blog post, the second in a three-part series.

The richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people, Stone Center Senior Scholar and GC CUNY Research Professor Branko Milanovic explains in this blog post, the first in a three-part series.

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

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

Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Max Longmuir shows how to use the Wealth Topography section of the GC Wealth Project site to compare and visualize forms of wealth in various countries.

M. Schechtl. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 111. 2025.

L. Klein, P. M. Lersch, and M. Longmuir. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 110. 2025.

In this post, Max Longmuir reflects on his time as a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, his work on the GC Wealth Project and other studies, and why some initial ideas wound up in his “project cemetery.”

G. Alfani, M. Di Tullio, and M. Fochesato. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 108. 2025.