Stone Center 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.

Agenda

January 27, 2026

MIT Samberg Conference Center, Salons M+I (and livestreamed)

Richard M. Locke

John C Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management

Panelists
Elizabeth Anderson

John Dewey University Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan

Oren Cass

Chief Economist, American Compass

Hélène Landemore

Damon Wells '58 Professor of Political Science, Yale University

Chair
Katrina Forrester

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Government and Social Studies, Harvard University

Panelists
Ellora Derenoncourt

Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University

Alexandra Killewald

Director, Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

Wojciech Kopczuk

Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Chair
Gary Gensler

Professor of the Practice, Global Economics and Management, and Professor of the Practice, Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management

Panelists
Daron Acemoglu

Institute Professor, MIT

Sheri Berman

Professor of Political Science and Chair, Barnard College, Columbia University

David Yang

Yvonne P.L. Lui Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Chair
Ya-Wen Lei

Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

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