BESI News
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VIDEO: Simon Johnson, “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity”
Watch a recap of a talk by Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship…
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VIDEO: Peter Spiegler, “Marketcrafting”
Watch the video of a talk by Peter Spiegler, Senior Researcher at The New Institute of…
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BESI Hosts Talk by Heather Boushey, Member of Council of Economic Advisers
BESI Hosts Heather Boushey, Member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers and Chief Economist to…
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Podcast Features Brutger’s Paper on Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation
A recent podcast features an interview with Prof. Ryan Brutger on his paper, “Litigation for Sale:…
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Jake Grumbach Receives APSA’s 2023 Best Book Award
Congratulations to Jacob (Jake) Grumbach on receiving the 2023 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award…
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Article: Taking Stock of the Implementation Gap in Climate Policy
In an article in Nature Climate Change, a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and other…
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Fall 2023 BESI Events: Peter Spiegler, Simon Johnson, and more
The Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) is pleased to present two upcoming events for the…
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BESI Initiative Seeks to Bridge Political Economy and Sociology
BESI co-sponsored a conference focused on how the fields of sociology and political economy could be…
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2023 CAPE Summer Academy Held at UC Berkeley
In June 2023, UC Berkeley hosted the CAPE Summer Academy, which introduces the Consortium on the…
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Leah Stokes: “Making Climate Policy: The Inflation Reduction Act”
BESI presented a talk by Leah Stokes, a professor from UC Santa Barbara, on the creation…