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Stone Program faculty affiliate Maya Sen, former director of the program from 2020 to 2024, has been named a 2026-27 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Sen, a Professor of Public Policy at the...

Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Gautam Nair and recent Stone PhD Scholar graduate Akshay Dixit, who have won more awards for their paper "Caste Reparations: Economic Advance, Social Concord, and Policy Backlash." They have received the...

Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Taeku Lee, the Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University, who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2025. Taeku Lee is a leading expert on racial and ethnic...

The American Economic Association (AEA) has awarded the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal to Stone Program faculty affiliate Stefanie Stantcheva, the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. The AEA statement announcing the award...

Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Christopher Muller, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, who has received a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. He joins the Guggenheim Foundation's 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. According to The...

Congratulations to Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow Shay O'Brien, who is a co-winner of the 2025 Socio-Economic Review (SER) Best Paper Prize for " The Family Web: Multigenerational Class Persistence in Elite Populations," which appeared in Volume 22...

On February 11, 2025, philosopher and economist Ingrid Robeyns visited Harvard Kennedy School to present a Stone Inequality Book Talk on Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth. In her lecture, Professor Robeyns drew on her 2024 book to make...

The Law and Political Economy Blog has conducted an interview with Stone Program faculty affiliate Christopher Muller, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. The interview, conducted by Alex Gourevitch, explores Professor Muller's work on...

Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, who has received the 2024 Hegel Prize. The Hegel Prize is awarded every three years by the City of Stuttgart and the Hegel...

Daron Acemoglu, who delivered the 2024 James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality on September 17 (pictured), and James Robinson, who spoke in the Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar on September 30, are co-winners (with Simon...