Join us on October 31, 2023 as a group of panelists will discuss the current state of commercial real estate in San Francisco — and what lies ahead. Panelists include Ted Egan, Chief Economist of the City and County of San Francisco; Nicholas Bloom, the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University; and Nancy…
Below is a list of graduate students in the Designated Emphasis in Political Economy program at UC Berkeley. Alonzo Ackerman SociologyUniversity of California, Berkeley Timothy Ahn SociologyUniversity of California, Berkeley Diego Ayala SociologyUniversity of California, Berkeley Pavel Bacherikov Haas Business SchoolUniversity of California, Berkeley Emma Bates HistoryUniversity of California, Berkeley Raj Bhargava Jurisprudence and Social…
BESI Hosts Heather Boushey, Member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers and Chief Economist to the Invest in America Cabinet.
A recent podcast features an interview with Prof. Ryan Brutger on his paper, “Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation.”
Congratulations to Jacob (Jake) Grumbach on receiving the 2023 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Laboratories against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics.”
Pedagogical Questions… The field of Political Economy spans several different disciplines and departments in the academy, which means its teaching also varies. While approaches vary, each must answer fundamental questions such as: How does their discipline approach the study of political economy, and is that reflected in the way it is taught? What does their…
Recorded on Sept. 12, 2023, this program brought together scholarly debates about industrial policy with a discussion of the practical challenges of designing and implementing industrial policy in the United States.
Please join us as Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses his recent co-authored book Power and Progress, based on a thousand years of history and contemporary evidence, in conversation with Brad DeLong, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley.
UC Berkeley is home to an array of centers that are engaged in rethinking political economy in diverse ways. Berkeley Center for Economics and Politics (BCEP) Berkeley Opportunity Lab (O-Lab) Berkeley Center for Law and Business (BCLB) Center on the Politics of Development (CPD) Center for the Study of American Democracy Institute for Research on…
In an article in Nature Climate Change, a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and other institutions — including Taryn Fransen, Jonas Meckling, Anna Stünzi, Tobias S. Schmidt, Florian Egli, Nicolas Schmid & Christopher Beaton — examine the gap between the emissions reductions pledged by countries under the Paris Agreement and those resulting from their domestic policies. The authors argue…