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Ordinary Hope and the economy: a conversation with Nick Hanauer and Wendy Carlin
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 receives the 2023 IEA Fellow Award
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.
Co-director Wendy Carlin nominated Vice-President of the International Economic Association
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.
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?
Congratulations to three academics in the UCL Department of Economics
Lucas Conwell, Attila Lindner, and Stephen Hansen, academics in the Department of Economics at UCL, will receive a research support grant from the Stone Centre.
Co-director Imran Rasul elected Vice-President of the European Economic Association
Co-director Imran Rasul has been elected as Vice-President (President-Elect in 2025 and President in 2026) of the European Economic Association. On behalf of the Stone Centre at UCL, congratulations!
Four grants awarded to academics in the UK and in Italy
Congratulations to Stefano Caria, Erika Deserranno, David Hope, and Clara Martínez-Toledano. They won a Stone Centre External Research Support Grant for research on remote health provision, job insurance, inequality and carbon taxation, and capital markets. Find out more.
The Stone Centre at UCL welcomes the 2023/2024 Stone PhD Scholars
Filippo Pallotti, Damian Phelan, and Linda Wu are the 2023/2024 Stone PhD Scholars. Thanks to their expertise, the Stone Centre at UCL can keep fulfilling its mission on advancing research and teaching on wealth concentration and inequality.
