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Five PhD students from the UCL Department of Economics have been appointed Stone PhD Scholars. Find out more about their research and the Stone PhD Scholarship scheme.

Pedro Carneiro, Jonas Hjort, Marta Morazzoni and Gabriel Ulyssea, from the UCL Department of Economics, have received a Stone Centre internal research support grants.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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.

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?