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The mismeasure of human history?
David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at UCL, responds to Amy Bogaard's and Sam Bowles' talks at the Stone Centre Symposium on the evolution of wealth inequality.
Stone Centre Symposium 2024
What can we learn from the evolution of wealth inequality since prehistory, about the processes sustaining extraordinary wealth inequality today, and policies to secure a more just distribution in the future?
Stone Centre PhD Conference
The Stone Centre at UCL hosted the first PhD conference organised by PhD students in economics from UCL. Suresh Naidu delivered the keynote presentation. Read the programme, and catch up with Suresh's keynote!
Winners of the Stone Centre Prize 2024 announced!
We congratulate Shriya Rastogi, Anandi Pal, Shyam Patra and Joe Hswen Lim on winning the Stone Centre Prize at Explore Econ 2024 for best inequality-related submission.
Listen to the Stone Public Lectures
The Stone Centre at UCL organises annual, free public lectures with renown speakers to inform the public about the latest progress of research on wealth concentration and inequality. You can listen to them as a podcast for free.
Workshop on wealth, housing, and taxation
As we see living standards plummet in the developed world, it is reasonable to consider redistributive solutions, but how effective are these in improving economic welfare? And how can we simultaneously tackle issues of housing and tax evasion?
Transforming economics teaching
In the March 2024 issue of IMF’s F&D, Co-director Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems.
New Doing Economics project: "Female labour supply and the macroeconomy"
"Female labour supply and the macroeconomy" is an extra, free data-analysis project in Doing Economics. It explores the macroeconomic effects of the growth and subsequent flattening out of women’s participation in the labour market in the US from the 1940s to the 2020s.