Scholar Interviews

In this interview, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Guido Alfani talks about how the position of the rich in Western society has changed over the centuries, and the implications for the present and future.

In this interview, Stone Center Research Professor Branko Milanovic discusses his recently published book, Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War.

In this interview, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Zachary Parolin discusses his new book, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from Covid-19," and assesses an array of policies that would improve economic well-being in the long term.

In this interview, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Nancy Folbre discusses her recent study, which looks at why care services providers have relatively low pay compared to workers in business services with equivalent levels of education.

In this interview, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Manuel Schechtl discusses his research interests and his working paper on fiscal impoverishment, a new framework in comparative poverty research.

In this interview, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Tina Law discusses the origins and growth of computational social science, how she became a sociologist, and why receiving her doctoral degree was particularly meaningful to her.

In this interview, Guido Alfani, a professor of economic history at Bocconi University, Milan, and an affiliated scholar at the Stone Center, discusses his latest paper on epidemics, inequality, and poverty.

In this interview, University of California-San Diego sociologist and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Lane Kenworthy discusses his latest book, “Would Democratic Socialism Be Better?”

In this interview, Ignacio Flores, a postdoctoral scholar at the Stone Center and a member of The GC Wealth Project team, discusses “The Weight of the Rich: Improving Surveys Using Tax Data” and the algorithm that he and coauthors invented during his Ph.D. years.

In this interview, Nishant Yonzan, who earned his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center in 2022, talks about his study, coauthored with Stone Center Scholars Branko Milanovic, Salvatore Morelli, and Janet Gornick, that was recently published in The Journal of Economic Inequality.