Celebrating a new Stone Centre at LSE

We’re delighted to announce the arrival of the newest Stone Centre: The Stone Centre for the Study of Wealth Inequality at LSE.

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The new Centre will be based at the London School of Economics, hosted by STICERD (the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines), with its core team of investigators in the Department of Economics. It will be co-directed by Professor Camille Landais and Dr Kate Smith.

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As the first Stone Centre with an explicit focus on entrepreneurship, the LSE Centre will provide new evidence on the relationship between entrepreneurship and wealth inequality, develop models for estimating the short and long-term impacts of policies regulating entrepreneurship and inequality, and work to overcome the practical, legal and political barriers to implementing effective policy.

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LSE’s Stone Centre joins our global network of 13 other wealth inequality centres funded by the Stone Foundation. It is supported by a $5 million gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation and will formally launch in Autumn 2026.

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We look forward to reading the fantastic research of our new colleagues at LSE.

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To find out more, head over to the LSE website.