Why does wealth poverty matter? How is it measured? How prevalent is it? What factors raise households' risk of being wealth poor? What policies can mitigate it? A new WP by @schechtlm.eurosky.social & @janetgornick.bsky.social, prepared for the Annual Review of Sociology, addresses those questions.

My conversation for Bloomberg's Odd Lots with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal. Very fun conversation. Enjoyable. Great questions. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

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It's pretty obvious by now that globalization has fallen out of favor. And while many pundits have deemed economic globalism dead, we are still figuring out what to call this new era. Branko Milanović...

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📣New blog post about our recent paper on dividend tax reforms. Working paper here: cepr.org/publications... Thanks @voxeu.org!

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Y Berman & E Klor show that temporary tax holidays may generate substantial short-run revenues but also encourage taxpayers to postpone future distributions if they expect similar relief again. Policymakers should consider how policy shapes tomorrow's expectations. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

The @stone-lis.bsky.social WP series added linked papers; together, a comprehensive portrait of inequality trends: #128: Wealth Inequality Trends Around the World. #131: Is Income Inequality on the Rise Everywhere? Both also posted at @lisdata.bsky.social stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/research-dat...

It was a great and productive meeting. Many thanks to @janetgornick.bsky.social for her important intervention, along with remarks by Imraan Valodia and Jose Antonio Ocampo. As Janet says, the IPI is taking shape! @icrict.bsky.social

Janet Gornick@janetgornick.bsky.social · 3w ago

I was pleased to speak - about data for inequality analyses - at yesterday's event organized to introduce the International Panel on Inequality to representatives from many Permanent Missions to the UN. The IPI is taking shape! @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social @morellisal.bsky.social

I was pleased to speak - about data for inequality analyses - at yesterday's event organized to introduce the International Panel on Inequality to representatives from many Permanent Missions to the UN. The IPI is taking shape! @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social @morellisal.bsky.social

📢 Call for Submissions: III/LIS Comparative Inequality Conference If you're doing research on economic inequality, the call for submissions for the third III/LIS Comparative Inequality Conference is now open. The conference will take place in London in February 2027. Submit by Sept 15th 2026

Congratulations to our 2025 Stone Center Junior Scholar Swapnil Landge on his new tenure-track position!

CUNY Graduate Center@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 3w ago

Alumnus Swapnil Landge, who landed a tenure-track job, shares his advice for doctoral students considering the academic job market: Don't wait for perfection. "You will never be ready," he said. "There will never be a best time to go on the market"

"Is Income Inequality on the Rise Everywhere?" Reviewing evidence from 138 countries, this new WP argues that two facts coexist: income inequality remains unacceptably high in many countries, yet from 2000 to 2020 inequality was more often declining or stable than increasing. bit.ly/3T4weOQ

"South Korea thus presents a distinctive case in the global history of wealth accumulation: not one of gradual evolution but a rapid, crisis-induced transformation from a developmental state of low inequality to an advanced economy of moderately high inequality." @zhexunmo.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality@stone-lis.bsky.social · 4w ago

A new WP constructs the 1st continuous long-run series of top wealth concentration for South Korea, using estate tax tabulations & the mortality multiplier method. It documents two distinct regimes: low, stable concentration from 1970-1990, followed by an abrupt rise in the late '90s. bit.ly/4wzv5gL

A new WP constructs the 1st continuous long-run series of top wealth concentration for South Korea, using estate tax tabulations & the mortality multiplier method. It documents two distinct regimes: low, stable concentration from 1970-1990, followed by an abrupt rise in the late '90s. bit.ly/4wzv5gL

New from the GC Wealth Project! Introducing a novel global database on the historical evolution of EIG taxes for more than 170 countries and all U.S. states (from 2006). Working paper by Twisha Asher, Luca Giangregorio, @morellisal.bsky.social, @schechtlm.eurosky.social & Francesca Subioli.

A new WP introduces the Wealth Inequality Trends Database of the GC Wealth Project to summarize the main findings on levels & trends in wealth inequality around the world using multiple data sources, & shows that wealth inequality has increased in about 60% of the countries analyzed. bit.ly/4vaa7Uz

My heart is full, having arrived in Luxembourg, my second home for 36 years. Tomorrow, we welcome LIS Summer Workshop attendees from universities around the world, including five (!) from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and @stone-lis.bsky.social. The @lisdata.bsky.social Office at ≈10pm sunset ...

What could U.S. healthcare reform look like? The final primer in @pkrugman.bsky.social's Curing Healthcare series gives an international perspective on U.S. healthcare, discusses the changing political economy of U.S. healthcare reform, and proposes a path forward.

Curing U.S. Healthcare, Part III: Paul Krugman - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Part III of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s three-part series on the U.S. healthcare system, originally posted in his Substack newsletter, considers the U.S. healthcare system from an inter...

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The June 2026 GC CUNY Stone Center on Socio-Economic #Inequality newsletter is out! Please check it out and - if you're not subscribed - we hope that you'll sign up. You'll receive our latest news 6 times per year. @stone-lis.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social mailchi.mp/480dc65ab025...

Can childhood exposure to rising local wealth inequality help to explain growing class gaps in income mobility? Short answer: Yes! New paper with @ftorche.bsky.social now out OA in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social here: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... #Demography #Sociology #EconSky

Part 2. Paul Krugman on "Curing U.S. Healthcare". "The second Trump administration and its allies in Congress have taken two actions that will, over time, almost completely undo the expansion of health insurance since the ACA was enacted... How can and should Democrats respond?" 👇👇👇 Stay tuned ...

Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality@stone-lis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The new assault on healthcare — Part II of @pkrugman.bsky.social's Curing Healthcare series, originally published in his Substack newsletter and now on the Stone Center site, looks at 80 years of U.S. health politics, the Obamacare story, and U.S. healthcare on the eve of Trump II.

The new assault on healthcare — Part II of @pkrugman.bsky.social's Curing Healthcare series, originally published in his Substack newsletter and now on the Stone Center site, looks at 80 years of U.S. health politics, the Obamacare story, and U.S. healthcare on the eve of Trump II.

Curing U.S. Healthcare, Part II: Paul Krugman - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Part II of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s three-part series on the U.S. healthcare system, originally posted in his Substack newsletter, discusses U.S. health care on the eve of the second...

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"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...

Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses

The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first

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New Stone Center WP, by Valetto, Filauro, Marx, Gornick "In sum, this paper demonstrates that non-primary real estate is a potent but underexamined driver of wealth #inequality. By disaggregating housing wealth, we reveal that real estate is ... a composite of distinct distributional forces." 👇👇👇

Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality@stone-lis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Studies of wealth typically treat housing as a single category, but this practice obscures the dual nature of real estate. A new WP, "Real Estate Wealth Is Not a Monolith," reveals the important role of non-primary real estate in wealth concentration. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/publications...

Studies of wealth typically treat housing as a single category, but this practice obscures the dual nature of real estate. A new WP, "Real Estate Wealth Is Not a Monolith," reveals the important role of non-primary real estate in wealth concentration. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/publications...

My today's Substack: International development: From moralizing to calculations to laissez-faire to rhetoric A review of Christian Olaf Christiansen’s “Designing Global Economic Equality” branko2f7.substack.com/p/internatio...

International development: From moralizing to calculations to laissez-faire to rhetoric

A review of Christian Christiansen’s “Designing Global Economic Equality”

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Curing U.S. Healthcare -- read Part I of @pkrugman.bsky.social's series, originally published in his Substack newsletter and now on the Stone Center site, to learn about why markets can’t be trusted to deliver healthcare, routes to universal healthcare, and what works.

Curing U.S. Healthcare, Part I: Paul Krugman - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Part I of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s three-part series on the U.S. healthcare system, originally posted in his Substack newsletter, discusses why markets can’t be trusted to deliver he...

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My 2006 article arguing that we are moving toward much greater inequality in club football (because of its extreme commercialization) and greater equality in national team football... Globalization and goals: does soccer show the way? stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/publications...

Globalization and Goals: Does Soccer Show the Way? - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

B. Milanovic. Review of International Political Economy. vol. 12, no. 5. pp. 829-850. 2005.

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Erratum: Ecole Normale Superieure.

Branko Milanovic@brankomilan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tonight, in Paris at Ecole National Superieure, at 7 pm A book talk on "The Great Global Transformation" with five phenomenal discussants La transformation de l'ordre économique mondial Tickets, Monday, June 8 • 7 PM - 9 PM | Eventbrite www.eventbrite.fr/e/la-transfo...

Congratulations to our postdocs Zhexun Mo and Severin Rapp, who will start new positions this fall after completing their two years at the CUNY Graduate Center! @zhexunmo.bsky.social will join @ulaval.ca, and @severinrapp.bsky.social will join @lseinequalities.bsky.social.

Stone Center’s Postdoctoral Scholars to Start New Positions at Laval University and LSE - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

The Stone Center’s sixth cohort of postdoctoral scholars, Zhexun Mo and Severin Rapp, will start new positions this fall after they complete their two-year terms at the Graduate Center. Mo will join t...

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This eve, CUNY GC will hold its 60th annual commencement ceremony. I send hearty congrats to all graduates - so much hard and creative work! - with an extra shout-out to seven new PhDs with ties to our Stone Center (you know who you are). #Proud @stone-lis.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Qin Gao argues that the U.S. and China may have more in common than many assume, especially when it comes to poverty and social welfare policy. @stone-lis.bsky.social 🎥 Watch this clip from The Great Global Transformation and the full discussion on YouTube. youtu.be/xr1zscNHeYI?...

On May 6, 2026, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and @stone-lis.bsky.social co-hosted an event framed around @brankomilan.bsky.social new book: "The Great Global Transformation." The video is now online Thanks to our excellent panelists, Daniel Markovits, Qin Gao, and @adamtooze.bsky.social. 👇👇👇

CUNY Graduate Center@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICYMI, watch “The Great Global Transformation: The US, China & the Remaking of the World Economic Order” youtu.be/xr1zscNHeYI Feat. author @brankomilan.bsky.social; Qin Gao, Columbia; Daniel Markovits, Yale; @adamtooze.bsky.social, Columbia; Janet Gornick, dir @stone-lis.bsky.social, event cosponsor