Featured Event

Why Wealth Inequality Matters: A Symposium

Date: January 27, 2026
Time: 1PM - 5PM EST
Location: MIT Samberg Conference Center, Salons M+I (and livestreamed)

Join us for a series of interdisciplinary discussions on wealth inequality – its origins and political philosophy, its national and global contexts, and its connections to authoritarianism – to inform research and policy. This event is organized by the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work.

Past Events

World Bank hosts Simon Johnson

Date: June 13, 2023
Time: 10:15AM

Creative Destruction Lab Super Session

Date: June 13, 2023
Time: 12AM

People Over Robots: How policy distorts decisions around automation

Date: June 12, 2023
Time: 10AM

Lunchtime book talk at EconCon 2023

Date: June 9, 2023
Time: 12:30PM

IMF Artificial Intelligence’s Economic, Social and Trade Impacts: A Conversation with Daron Acemoglu and Gary Marcus

Date: June 8, 2023
Time: 12PM

Paul Johnson and Simon Johnson talk to Faiza Shaheen

Date: June 8, 2023
Time: 10AM

MIT Faculty Lecture Series to the Naval Undersea and Surface Warfare Centers

Date: June 6, 2023
Time: 12PM

Festival Internazionale dell’Economia: Meet the Author with Daron Acemoglu

Date: June 3, 2023
Time: 7PM

UCL IIPP Book Launch: Power and Progress

Date: June 1, 2023
Time: 5PM