The 2022 Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality
The third annual James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality featured Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on March 28, 2022 in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School. Professor Stiglitz appeared in conversation with economist David Autor, current visiting professor at Harvard Kennedy School.
Read the Harvard Gazette article: "Nobel winner warned of wealth gap 10 years ago. It's only gotten worse."
About the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality
In 2018 the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy received a $2.5 million gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation to support new and ongoing work to address wealth concentration and the broader problems of inequality. The gift supported the research and outreach efforts at the Center's Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, which served as a nexus for work on inequality across the university. The gift funds doctoral students who are drawn from across Harvard University graduate schools and working on cutting-edge issues across the social sciences. Read the HKS announcement
The gift also established the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality, a series of public lectures designed to bring greater awareness to this important challenge.
On March 28, 2022 Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf announced the receipt of a $5 million gift to establish the new James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy, which builds on the success of the Stone PhD Scholars. Funded by the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, the new program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy includes the work of the former Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy and adds new components, including a consortium of doctoral students in the social sciences whose research focuses on income and wealth inequality; policy-relevant and public-facing research that speaks to real-world problems; and public events to communicate research and engage members of the broader community. Read the HKS announcement
The Inaugural Stone Lecture was delivered by renowned economist Thomas Piketty on March 30 at Harvard Kennedy School’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Emmanuel Saez presented the 2019 James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality, "The Triumph of Injustice," on October 28, 2019.
Watch the Inaugural James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture with Thomas Piketty
Watch the 2019 Stone Lecture with Emmanuel Saez
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