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Stone Centre Postdoctoral Fellows Tatiana Mocanu and Riccardo Cioffi introduce themselves, the research they do, and their plans for the future. They joined the Stone Centre in late summer 2022 for one year.

The Stone Centre at UCL launched on 26 May 2022, with notable guest speakers including Nobel prizes Angus Deaton and James Heckman. The recording is now available.

A collection of excerpts from the launch of the Stone Centre at UCL, with speakers including Imran Rasul, Wendy Carlin, James Heckman, Arin Dube, John Van Reenen and Janet Gornick.

Suraj Sridhar and Shivam Gujral from the UCL Department of Economics report on the launch of the Stone Centre at UCL from a student perspective. The launch saw contributions from James Heckman, Angus Deaton, Wendy Carlin, Imran Rasul, Janet Gornick, Arin Dube, John Van Reenen and Jim Stone.

On 8 June 2022 the Stone Centre awarded a prize to Gaurav Khatri for outstanding research on inequality. Read more about the prize and Gaurav's brilliant paper.

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy launched on 26 May with two Nobel prize winning economists, James Heckman and Sir Angus Deaton, leading an impressive line up of speakers highlighting recent research on inequality.

James Baggaley reports on the Stone Centre workshop held in February 2022, during which researchers at the UCL Department of Economics gathered to share their research on inequality, alongside unanswered questions on it.

Phil Thornton talks about the new Stone Centre established at the Department of Economics at University College London, and how it will help CORE Econ to promote economics teaching addressing current societal issues.