News and blogs
Meet the 2023/2024 Stone Centre Postdocs
Christiane Szerman and Micole De Vera joined the Stone Centre at UCL as the 2023/2024 Postdoctoral Fellows. They share with us what they plan to do during their time at the Stone Centre and afterwards.
Co-director Wendy Carlin elected Fellow of the British Academy
Wendy joins a community of over 1,600 distinguished intellectuals, becoming part of the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Congratulations, Wendy!
Expanding the pool of inventors and entrepreneurs beyond selection along racial, gendered, and class lines
Stone Scholar Linda Wu presents her take on the first meeting of the Stone Working Group on Economic Dynamism and Distributive Justice. Why do we need to expand the pool of inventors and entrepreneurs?
Watch the Royal Economic Society Annual Public Lecture
Co-director Wendy Carlin delivered the 2023 Royal Economic Society Annual Public Lecture: "Capitalism, carbon, and colonies – looking back and looking forward". You can watch it online.
Matias Mäkiranta wins the Stone Centre Explore Econ prize
Matias Mäkiranta, a UCL undergraduate student in economics, won the Stone Centre Explore Econ 2023 prize. His paper investigating the impact of labour market concentration and wages.
Risk mitigation to reduce barriers to innovation broadly defined - 3 illustrative policies
We introduce the Stone Working Group on Economic Dynamism and Distributive Justice. The Group will investigate whether it is possible to give greater economic decision-making power to the less wealthy so as to promote a more dynamic economy.
A year of Stone Centre at UCL
The Stone Centre at UCL launched on 26 May 2022 in Westminster. See what we've been up to in our first year of activities, from the people who joined us to the events we organised.
The classroom and the real world: Claudia Buch on the intersection of academia and policy
Claudia Buch (VP, Deutsche Bundesbank) highlights the importance of evidence-based research and teaching in economics, which is at the centre of CORE Econ's mission.
