We are rethinking the conditions for genuine, widespread, and sustainable prosperity.
The Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative forges collaborations across fields to reframe the study of political and economic life. Hard questions are our starting point.
Learn more about the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI).
The Latest at BESI
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Brian Judge: ‘Democracy in Default’
Neoliberalism benefits from a mostly uncontested origin myth about how neoliberal economics came to dominate economic…
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BESI Director Paul Pierson’s ‘Partisan Nation’ Featured in Opportunity Now
Following the November election results, Opportunity Now Silicon Valley, an editorial nonprofit that highlights free market…
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Designated Emphasis in Political Economy Student Co-Authors Paper in Leading Poli-Sci Journal
Daniel Lobo, a sociology Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley who studies race, political economy, and organizational…
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Daniel Chandler: ‘Free and Equal’
The late Gerald Cohen once wrote that there are “at most two books in the history…
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Rachel Weber: ‘Seizing the Means of Prediction’
You know something is wrong when neoliberals and Marxists start agreeing. The emerging consensus among economists…
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Diane Coyle: ‘Economics, Automated’
Can we automate economic decision making? More importantly, should we? On October 24, BESI welcomed British…
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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.