Berkeley Economy
& Society Initiative
The Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) champions next-generation thinking about markets, governance, and the social preconditions for developing and sustaining genuine prosperity.
In advancing a new agenda for multidisciplinary research and informed policy conversation, we stress the need to explore enduring inequalities of resources and power that frequently impede social progress.
Learn more about the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI).
The Latest at BESI
April 30, 2024
12:00pm-1:30pm
Online webinar (via Zoom) 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 public investment strategy for the United States. And she will explain how this NIA, and other institutional proposals that she has developed, could transform industrial policy in general, and climate policy in particular, in the United States.Upcoming Events
The National Investment Authority: An Institutional Blueprint and Implications for Climate Policy
Designated
Emphasis (DE) in
Political Economy
BESI is proud to support the Designated Emphasis (DE) in Political Economy, through which doctoral students in various disciplines can expand their training in political economy and take classes across UC Berkeley departments. Learn more.