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Congratulations to Stefano Caria, Erika Deserranno, David Hope, and Clara Martínez-Toledano. They won a Stone Centre External Research Support Grant for research on remote health provision, job insurance, inequality and carbon taxation, and capital markets. Find out more.

Filippo Pallotti, Damian Phelan, and Linda Wu are the 2023/2024 Stone PhD Scholars. Thanks to their expertise, the Stone Centre at UCL can keep fulfilling its mission on advancing research and teaching on wealth concentration and inequality.

Co-directors Wendy Carlin and Imran Rasul, and Advisory Board member Richard Blundell have been elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. The Stone Centre at UCL congratulates all of them on receiving this professional recognition.

Christiane Szerman and Micole De Vera joined the Stone Centre at UCL as the 2023/2024 Postdoctoral Fellows. They share with us what they plan to do during their time at the Stone Centre and afterwards.

Wendy joins a community of over 1,600 distinguished intellectuals, becoming part of the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Congratulations, Wendy!

Co-director Wendy Carlin delivered the 2023 Royal Economic Society Annual Public Lecture: "Capitalism, carbon, and colonies – looking back and looking forward". You can watch it online.

Matias Mäkiranta, a UCL undergraduate student in economics, won the Stone Centre Explore Econ 2023 prize. His paper investigating the impact of labour market concentration and wages.

We introduce the Stone Working Group on Economic Dynamism and Distributive Justice. The Group will investigate whether it is possible to give greater economic decision-making power to the less wealthy so as to promote a more dynamic economy.