Videos

Sociologist Orlando Patterson delivers the third Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture, "Slavery and Genocide: Jamaica, The U.S. South and the Demography of Evil, 1650–1830."

In the inaugural Social Policy Lecture at LSE, Leslie McCall presents a novel analytical framework for the understanding of popular responses to economic inequality.

A discussion of the latest volume of the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, which focuses on on single-parent families and the best approaches to support them. Janet Gornick, director of the Stone Center, presents an overview of the research.

In this interview, Miles Corak discusses the fraying of the American Dream and the power of inequality to disrupt the promise of social mobility.

Branko Milanovic discusses expert knowledge and policy-making in this interview by Miloš Vojinović of the European University Institute (EUI) as part of their series on the crisis of expert knowledge and authority.

An excerpt of introductory remarks by Janet Gornick at the launch of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality, and the Economy, based at University College London.

A panel discussion of how diverse coalitions across race and class can bring about much needed change to our political system, institutions, and social policies. Introduction by Leslie McCall.

In this video, Salvatore Morelli presents his talk at the digital event “How Fast Will Tomorrow Be?” This video is in Italian.

In this video, Branko Milanovic discusses global inequality as part of the Winter 2022 Lecture Series, "Engaging Global Inequality," at the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University.

In this video, Paul Krugman moderates a discussion among sci-fi novelists and social scientists about the connection between the social sciences and fantasy fiction, and how they often inspire each other.