Stone Centre at UCL
Welcome to the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality, and the Economy at University College London. The Stone Centre at UCL will advance research and education to provide a clear understanding of the causes of wealth inequality, and its economic and political consequences.
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Featured education materials
CORE Skyscrapers are interactive, 3-D visualisations of the distribution of global income and wealth.
Latest featured research
In the wake of the Global Financial Crises (GFC), the GDP of most countries failed to recover and catch up with its previous trend. This paper studies the cause of the boom that preceded the crisis and ask whether it was sustainable, or even desirable in the first place.
This study builds a unified non-parametric approach to predicting the unequal effects of trade shocks through both channels based on detailed microdata on spending and employment from the United States.
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Latest news and blogs
The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy launched on 26 May with two Nobel prize winning economists, James Heckman and Sir Angus Deaton, leading an impressive line up of speakers highlighting recent research on inequality.
James Baggaley reports on the Stone Centre workshop held in February 2022, during which researchers at the UCL Department of Economics gathered to share their research on inequality, alongside unanswered questions on it.