Wealth/Assets

The Stone Center has established a new postdoctoral program that will support two scholars beginning in the 2019–2020 academic year and two beginning in the 2020–2021 year.

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation awarded a gift of $1.2 million to the Stone Center to launch a new postdoctoral scholars program.

S. Morelli, B. Nolan, and P. Van Kerm. In Generating Prosperity for Working Families in Affluent Countries. B. Nolan (ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapt. 12. 2018.

The Stone Center served as host of the Seventh Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). Watch the featured keynote lectures.

R. van der Weide and B. Milanovic. The World Bank Economic Review. vol. 32, no. 3. pp. 507-530. 2018.

F. Alvaredo, A.B. Atkinson, and S. Morelli. Journal of Public Economics, vol. 162. pp. 26–47. 2018.

In the Second Annual Stone Lecture on Wealth Inequality, Edward N. Wolff discusses the interplay between wealth and income in America.

Salvatore Morelli, an Oxford-trained economist and inequality scholar, joined the Stone Center in 2017 to lead the GC Wealth Project.

Watch the inaugural Stone Wealth Inequality Lecture by Gabriel Zucman, in which he talks about tax evasion and inequality.

In this post for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Salvatore Morelli discusses inequality's potential impact on macroeconomic performance and financial stability.