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…
Join us on March 19th from 4:00pm-5:30pm for a talk by Nick Romeo, New Yorker journalist and lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, focused on his book, The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy.
Please join us on March 12 at 4:00pm for a talk 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,…
Join us on February 6 as Professor Beth Rabinowitz will discuss her recent book, “Defensive Nationalism: Explaining the Rise of Populism and Fascism in the 21st Century,” and the powerful thesis that the irrationalism and hatred that marked the early 20th century has resurged in the 21st. In turn, our response to violent instability and…
On December 5, 2023, BESI co-sponsored a panel focused on Impunity and Capitalism: the Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2022), by Trevor Jackson, Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Professor Jackson was joined by Anat Admati, the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and William H.…
On October 5th, BESI hosted a lunch conversation between New York Times journalist and podcast host Ezra Klein and PhD students from the Designated Emphasis in Political Economy and Jurisprudence and Social Policy programs. Klein and students discussed understanding and overcoming political impasse and policy gridlock, issues at the heart of Klein’s current book project…
Watch a recap of a talk by Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management. Johnson discussed his recent co-authored book, Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, based on a thousand years of history and contemporary evidence.
Watch the video of a talk by Peter Spiegler, Senior Researcher at The New Institute of Political Economy, focused on his co-authored report, “Marketcrafting: A 21st-Century Industrial Policy.”
Please join us on December 5 at 3:30pm for an Authors Meet Critics panel on “Impunity and Capitalism: the Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830,” by Trevor Jackson, Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Professor Jackson will be joined by William H. Janeway, Affiliated Member of the Economics Faculty at Cambridge University; David Singh…