If affordability is a political issue, who’s really responsible?
Lina M. Khan and Paul Krugman discuss monopoly power, antitrust, and inequality at Affordability, Antitrust, and Inequality. @pkrugman.bsky.social
March 9, 2026 | 6:30 PM
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What do we know - and what should we know - about economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies? This new WP by our Affiliated Scholar @guidoalfani.bsky.social identifies the main gaps that need to be filled in reconstructions of wealth & income distributions.
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Graduating students: apply by 3/8 to be part of this year’s Dissertation Showcase on 5/11. Present your research in a brief TED-style talk. Participants receive coaching, honorarium. Apply now: gc.cuny.edu/dissertation... Pictured: Miguel Rodriguez (Social Welfare) at the 2025 showcase
Don't miss this blog post - by Anna Stansbury and Kyra Rodriguez - summarizing their remarkable research.
"Gender and race have rightly become central to how researchers and organizations think about career disparities in elite occupations. But there is a glaring omission: class."
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Socioeconomic background is notably absent from most research on elite career progression. In their blog post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @annastansbury.bsky.social and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley discuss their forthcoming paper, "Class Background Matters for Career Progression."
Happy to announce the Call for Papers for the 41st Conference of the Italian Association of Labour Economics joint with AIEL, Department of Political Sciences & the Department of Law of Roma Tre University
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We're grateful for this new funding from the Stone Foundation, which will support our research on inequality, 10 additional postdoctoral scholars, many Graduate Center Ph.D. student researchers, and the GC Wealth Project.
We’re pleased to announce a $10 million gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, which supports the work of @stone-lis.bsky.social www.gc.cuny.edu/news/10-mill... @cuny.edu
As a legislative assistant in Taiwan's parliament, Stone Center Junior Scholar & CUNY Graduate Center Ph.D. candidate Shou-Ming Chang saw how legal, fiscal, and other administrative rules affect equity & efficiency. In this interview, he talks about his research on healthcare systems & inequality.
The paper, "Capitalization of the World," is part of the Stone Center Working Paper Series. You can access all of our working papers here: stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/research-dat...
Over the same period, the share of the world population with annual capital income above $100 increased from 12% to 27%. This implies more than a doubling of the number of individuals earning positive income from interest, dividends, rents, and privately funded pensions.
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A working paper by @brankomilan.bsky.social & @marcoranaldi.bsky.social provides new evidence on the evolution, distribution, and measurement of capital income globally. Global capital income inequality has declined in the 21st century, with the Gini coefficient falling from 97 to 94.
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While most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ based on new experimental evidence now published with @natrinh.bsky.social and @dariatisch.bsky.social in @sfjournal.bsky.social
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Inheritance typically constitutes a larger share of women’s wealth compared to men’s. A WP by @naomicrowther.bsky.social & @louisaroos.bsky.social uses registry data from Sweden to investigate the impact of inheritance on the gender wealth gap.
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Our new season of public programs was just announced and people are signing up. Reserve today to join us in person or online: www.gc.cuny.edu/public-progr... Feat. Frank Rich, Lina M. Khan, Paul Krugman, Elijah Wald, Qween Jean, Rocío Márquez & more! @CUNY
Thanks to Jan Stuhler (Carlos III of Madrid) for presenting his paper on intergenerational mobility and assortative mating in the US at Dep of Law at Roma Tre University.
Join us again on Feb. 18 for the next Inequality InRome seminar with Stefano Caria
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A new WP that uses data from U.S. academic jobs shows that a person's socioeconomic background is an important determinant not just of their career starting point, but of their career progression. Read the WP on the academia class gap by @annastansbury.bsky.social & Kyra Rodriguez.
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On social tables & their methodology.
The paper, which focuses on 19th century estimates, proposes a set of "rules" or a broadly common methodology to enable better comparability of the results. Read the paper by @brankomilan.bsky.social, @philerfurth.bsky.social, @mgzl.bsky.social, & @ggabbuti.bsky.social.
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A new WP discusses methodological issues that arise in the study of inequality using social tables, an approach commonly employed for estimating income distributions in societies where neither income surveys nor tax data are available.
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"Affordability, Antitrust, and Inequality" -- Register now for the free in-person and livestream event with Lina Khan and @pkrugman.bsky.social. March 9, 6:30 pm, at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social.
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Announcing spring 2026 public programs! Join us in person or online - reserve now: www.gc.cuny.edu/public-progr... Feat. journalist Frank Rich, former FTC chair Lina Khan, Nobel winner @pkrugman.bsky.social, author @elijahwald.bsky.social, designer Qween Jean, singer Rocío Márquez & more! @cuny.edu
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A WP by Maximilian Longmuir @smaexie.bsky.social provides new evidence on the relationship between household investment decisions and wealth inequality, and examines the role of policies that support broader risky financial market engagement.
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The end of a long period of decreasing global inequality?
Concept 3 is Gini between world citizens calculated from some 110+ representative national household surveys with incomes of individuals expressed in PPP dollars.
The new WP is by Francisco Ferreira, Vito Peragine, @paolobrunori.bsky.social, @psalasr.bsky.social & their coauthors, and is part of the Stone Center Working Paper Series.
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A new online database includes comparable estimates of inequality of opportunity for 72 countries that cover 2/3 of the world population. The share of total inequality that is due to inherited circumstances ranges from 19% (Denmark) to 77% (South Africa).
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"Budget Justice," the new book by GC CUNY Professor and Mamdani transition committee member Celina Su, discusses how participatory budgeting helps give city residents the resources and power to address their basic needs.
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The list (in no particular order) of the books that I liked the most and read in 2025, with my reviews:
Quinn Slobodian, Hayek's Bastards
Gold, volk and IQs
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