The James M. (James M. Stone) and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation & PSE create a Stone Center on Global Wealth Dynamics led by Gabriel Zucman (École normale supérieure | PSL-EU Tax Observatory-Paris School of Economics). It aims to deepen our understanding of global wealth distribution & accumulation shorturl.at/ipLRq

🆕 Michela Tincani Michela Carlana Enrico Miglino explain some findings from their research, partly funded by a Stone Centre grant, on the PACE programme in Chile. Read more today ➡️ timeshighereducation.com/news/top-cent-… Most recent working paper ➡️ nber.org/system/files/w… UCL Economics

🆕 Using topic modeling on the corpus of papers published in seven leading economics journals since 1900, the authors study the evolving emphasis in research on themes relating to the state, markets, and civil society Discover their findings 👇

Our incredible alumni matter to us, and to the world of #economics. Join us on 24&25/6 for the UCL Economics PhD Alumni Conference 2024, a two-day conference here in Bloomsbury packed with rich, expert discussions and friends old and new. Register now ➡️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-economic…

Just 3 weeks to go to enter the Royal Economic Society’s #YoungEconomistoftheYear competition! Enter here for the chance to explore the world of economics, and be published in the Financial Times! ➡️ buff.ly/3AdjrwQ Discover Economics FT for Schools #economicscompetition #alevel #gcse

This week The British Academy I’ll be responding to recent work on the “evolution of wealth inequality” (free event, and I’ll probably also write up some thoughts for Stone Centre at UCL) shorturl.at/NAZrK

We have a brilliant lineup of speakers for the final day of #TeachECONference2024. If you want to join us then get in touch at [email protected]

🙌🏻 A whole day finding out about the origin and evolution of wealth inequality in the beautiful setting of the The British Academy. Wendy Carlin kickstarts the event introducing the first speakers of the day, Sam Bowles Santa Fe Institute and Eleanor Power UCL Economics

We continue with Amy Bogaard Oxford School of Archaeology

“The only responsibility of business is to increase profit”, or is it? Simon Johnson Simon Johnson on technology and inequality over time, and today’s developments in AI UCL Economics MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative

Have major crises in history been the only reliable equaliser? Walter Scheidel concludes the day with this burning question. UCL Economics Stanford H&S

“Social scientists are best placed to tackle inequality not just because they offer the correct diagnosis, but because they can offer solutions” Our all-day symposium on the evolution of inequality concludes. Thank you everyone for speaking and attending 🎉 UCL Economics

It was a pleasure to host David Wengrow Catch up with his talk at the Stone Centre Symposium. Read his response to recent work by Amy Bogaard and Sam Bowles, presented last week ➡️ stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs…

🤝 WELCOME Gaia Dossi joins the Stone Centre at UCL as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the 2024/2025 academic year. A very warm welcome! Find out more about Gaia's research ➡️ sites.google.com/view/gaiadossi UCL Economics

Catch up with the Stone Centre Symposium! You can download the speakers' presentations ➡️ stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs… Discover more about the evolution of wealth inequality, with perspectives from archaeology, economics, and history!

It's the last few days for you to enter our #YoungEconomistoftheYear competition! Hear what last year's finalists had to say about the "life-changing" experience. Find out more and submit here 👉 buff.ly/3AdjrwQ #competition #gcse #alevel #ucas #personalstatement

📢 Last chance to be crowned the Young Economist of the Year, and have your work published in the Financial Times! Students in years 10 – 13 (or equivalent), get your thinking caps on to consider some real-world economic problems currently facing the UK. Enter here discovereconomics.co.uk/young-economis…

📕 Can you use three books in one class? Yes you can! Read about Jiaqi's experience studying public goods with The Economy 2.0, Experiencing Economics and Doing Economics 👇 Thanks CTaLE and Cloda Jenkins at Imperial College Business School Read ➡️ core-econ.org/a-student-eye-…

💵 What's the case to tax the ultra-wealthy? Discover by watching the Stone Public Lecture 2024 delivered by Gabriel Zucman ➡️ stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs… Read the original article on the Financial Times ➡️ ft.com/content/a074a9…

In UCL Economics, our researchers are our #excellence. Meet Gaia Dossi, new Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Stone Centre at UCL, whose fascinating research focuses on #gender and #diversity in the #labourmarket. Learn more ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/economics/news… UCL News