The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for a ninth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

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Paul Krugman gave this talk on economic size and economic power during the second day of the European Central Bank's annual research conference.

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for a ninth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

Nearly every category of product costs more than it would have had prepandemic trends continued. And many product prices are still rising faster than they were before.

Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic discusses the recent update of his All the Ginis (ATG) dataset, which now covers the period from 1950 to 2024 and includes 6,762 Ginis from 183 countries or territories. He also explains the continuing challenges in improving the production and collection of data on national income inequalities, and gives a warning about technological change.

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for a ninth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

This dataset, constructed by Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic, represents a compilation and adaptation of income or consumption Gini coefficients (calculated across households or household...

M. Schechtl and J. C. Gornick. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 132. 2026.

It's pretty obvious by now that globalization has fallen out of favor. And while many pundits have deemed economic globalism dead, we are still figuring out what to call this new era. Branko Milanović...

The Stone Center Working Paper Series gathers and disseminates original papers that address socio-economic inequalities.

The Stone Center Working Paper Series gathers and disseminates original papers that address socio-economic inequalities.

T. Asher, L. Giangregorio, S. Morelli, M. Schechtl, and F. Subioli. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 129. 2026.

The Stone Center Working Paper Series gathers and disseminates original papers that address socio-economic inequalities.

Part III of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s three-part series on the U.S. healthcare system, originally posted in his Substack newsletter, considers the U.S. healthcare system from an inter...