The Biden administration has taken some bold moves to rein in big tech and to challenge market concentration more broadly. Who is winning this battle and why? What are the possibilities for and constraints on a fundamental shift in market power in America? Watch the video of a BESI panel bringing together scholars who study…
Recorded on March 12, this panel focused on the book Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor, by Katherine S. Newman, UC System Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, and Elisabeth S. Jacobs, Deputy Director, WorkRise and Associate Vice President, Executive…
Recorded on March 12, 2024, this video features a lecture by Brett Christophers, Professor of Human Geography at Uppsala University’s Institute for Housing and Urban Research. The talk was delivered as part of the BESI Climate Seminar, presented by the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI).
Join us on April 19 as Susan Helper, Carlton Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University and former Senior Advisor for Industrial Strategy in the Biden Administration, will reflect on her experience designing and implementing strategies for supply chains such as electric vehicles, personal protective equipment, and clean energy. She will discuss the role of academic theory…
Please register to join us on April 30, 2024 at 12:00pm for an online lecture by Saule Omarova, Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law, Cornell University. Omarova will lay out an institutional design scheme for the proposed National Investment Authority (NIA), a federal entity to be charged with the financing and implementation of a long-term…
Please register to join us on April 23, 2024 at 12:00pm for an online lecture by Camila Gramkow, Director A.I. Of The Economic Commission For Latin America And The Caribbean (ECLAC), Brazil Office.
Please register to join us on March 12, 2024 at 12:00pm for an online lecture by Brett Christophers, Professor at Department of Human Geography, Professor at Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University
The Climate Seminar at the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) brings leading scholars of the political economy of climate change to UC Berkeley for hybrid talks and conversations. The Seminar is co-sponsored by the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and organized by Daniel Aldana Cohen. In Spring 2024, we will have three events, all from…
On February 6, 2024, BESI was honored to host a lecture by Professor Beth Rabinowitz, Associate Professor, Political Science, Rutgers University – Camden, discussing her book, Defensive Nationalism: Explaining the Rise of Populism and Fascism in the 21st Century.
Please join us on April 2, 2024 from 4:00pm-6:00pm for a panel featuring Gerald Berk, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Oregon; Stacy Mitchell, Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance; AnnaLee Saxenian, Professor in the School of Information, UC Berkeley; Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties…