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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.

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?

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.

"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.

Does current economic thinking focus on the everyday hopes of ordinary people and if not, what might an economic policy that does this look like? The UCL Policy Lab discusses these questions with Nick Hanauer and Co-director Wendy Carlin.

Sam Bowles, Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and member of the Stone Centre’s Advisory Board, has received the 2023 International Economic Association (IEA) Award.

The IEA promotes personal contacts and mutual understanding among economists in different parts of the world through the organization of scientific meetings, through common research programs, and by means of publications of an international character on problems of current importance.

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?