#  Harvard Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy 

 



 ![Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/2025-01/Stone%20Program%20cropped%20one%20line%20logo.png)

 

##### **The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy unites faculty, students, and researchers from across Harvard University and beyond to study and address the causes and consequences of wealth concentration and economic inequality.**



 

 

  [### Seminar

 ](https://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/seminar)For over a quarter century, scholars have given talks in the weekly Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar.



 

   ![Seminar](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/IMG_CampbellSeminar4.jpeg?itok=gucF_d-t) 

 

 

 

  [### Stone Lectures

 ](https://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/stone-lectures-economic-inequality)The Stone Lectures in Economic Inequality bring greater awareness to wealth concentration and inequality.



 

   ![Thomas Piketty's Stone Lecture](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/Piketty%20Stone%20Lecture.jpg?itok=92-Y-GSH) 

 

 

 

  [### Book Talks

 ](https://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/stone-inequality-book-talks)Authors of new books on economic inequality and social policy speak in the Stone Inequality Book Talk Series.



 

   ![Orlando Patterson Panel Discussion](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/inequality/files/paradox_of_freedom_panel_photo_20nov2024_0.jpg?itok=u0BorFG7) 

 

 

 

  [### Fellowships

 ](https://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/apply)The program offers fellowships and research grants for PhD students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty researchers.



 

   ![Raj Chetty seminar](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/Chetty%20seminar%201.jpeg?itok=YDxKWKAX) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

In Memoriam:

### Christopher "Sandy" Jencks 

 

The Stone Program mourns the loss of Christopher “Sandy” Jencks, the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Emeritus. He passed away on Saturday, February 8, 2025. We are honored to share remembrances from a small handful of the many whose lives Sandy improved.



 [ Read the remembrances arrow\_circle\_right ](/memoriam-christopher-sandy-jencks) 

 



      ![Christopher Jencks](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-02/Jencks1.jpg?h=17b696ab&itok=0EjcVziQ) 

 

 

  

 



 

 

 

 

 

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##  Upcoming Events 

 



  [### Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar: Danielle Allen

 ](/event/stone-inequality-social-policy-seminar-danielle-allen)September 14, 2026

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 12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT 

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 Allison Dining Room 

 

 

   [### Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar: Kitt Carpenter

 ](/event/stone-inequality-social-policy-seminar-kitt-carpenter)September 21, 2026

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 12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT 

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 Allison Dining Room 

 

 

   [### Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar: Rachel A. Potter

 ](/event/stone-inequality-social-policy-seminar-rachel-potter)September 28, 2026

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 12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT 

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 Allison Dining Room 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

##  News 

 



  [### Symposium on Patterson's Paradox of Freedom Published

 ](/news/2026/06/symposium-pattersons-paradox-freedom-published) June 02, 2026 

 

   ![Orlando Patterson](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/orlando_patterson-2_color.jpg?itok=4p6ow-yu) 

 



 

 

   [### Avi Moorthy Wins William Julius Wilson Research Award

 ](/news/2026/05/avi-moorthy-wins-william-julius-wilson-research-award) May 27, 2026 

 

   ![Avi Moorthy](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Avi-GSAS.jpg?h=731e6f41&itok=xr9GJ1Zk) 

 



 

 

   [### Maya Sen Named 2026-2027 Radcliffe Fellow

 ](/news/2026/05/maya-sen-named-2026-2027-radcliffe-fellow) May 14, 2026 

 

   ![Maya Sen](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/inequality/files/sen17b-001.jpg?itok=AK49YX0N)