About

Our mission

The mission of the Stone Centre at UCL is to advance research and teaching to provide a clear understanding of the causes of wealth inequality, and its economic and political consequences.

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The Centre makes education and research equal partners in the venture. It pairs up the CORE project, which is changing economics education globally to a focus on the most important problems faced by our societies, with the research powerhouse of the UCL Economics Department. It will provide a global hub for research and learning that will make wealth concentration and its impacts on innovation and sustainability central to an economics education.

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‍The Stone Centre will accomplish its mission by:

• complementing CORE’s educational mission, supporting the production of teaching and learning materials, and promoting a paradigm change in economics education
• recruiting and supporting a new cohort of young researchers interested in understanding the causes and consequences of wealth concentration and inequality, and in devising mitigating policies
• promoting new research on material wealth concentration and inequality, leveraging the excellence in economics research of the UCL Department of Economics, and of the expertise of the Stone Centre’s Affiliates
• funding, via competitive calls, research projects on themes of relevance to the Stone Centre’s mission

The co-directors of the Centre are Wendy Carlin, Professor of Economics and Founding Director of the CORE project and Imran Rasul, Professor of Economics and Co-director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS.