News and blogs

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?

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.