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A Stone Centre success story: Filippo Pallotti
We are proud to announce that Filippo Pallotti has recently completed his Stone Centre-funded research and branched out into a new sector to expand his economic expertise.

A Stone Centre success story: Linda Wu
We’re delighted to say that, following a successful Stone Centre PhD scholarship, Linda Wu has accepted a job as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. We spoke with Linda to offer our congratulations and to find out more about her next moves.

A new Stone Centre at MIT
We’re delighted to announce the arrival of the newest Stone Center at MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work.

CORE praised in The Atlantic article
We’re proud to see the CORE Econ project mentioned by Harvard University Professor Danielle Allen in an article for The Atlantic. Danielle commended CORE's efforts to make the teaching of economics more relevant to present day economic realities.

In a rapidly changing world, economics education must change rapidly
Wendy Carlin and Arjun Jayadev's interview in Maeil Daily, following a CORE Econ seminar at the Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea in December 2024.

Five new Stone PhD Scholars appointed
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.

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

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.