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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."

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.

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 […]

Sarah Anzia, a BESI participating faculty member and a leading scholar of local politics, was recently invited on the "Manhattan Insights" podcast to shed light on the political dynamics that shape the functioning of communities.

The Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) is pleased to present two upcoming events for the Fall 2023 semester. Both these events will be held at Social Science Matrix, 820 […]

BESI co-sponsored a conference focused on how the fields of sociology and political economy could be bridged.

In June 2023, UC Berkeley hosted the CAPE Summer Academy, which introduces the Consortium on the American Political Economy's framework to graduate students and junior faculty.

BESI presented a talk by Leah Stokes, a professor from UC Santa Barbara, on the creation and ramifications of the Inflation Reduction Act for climate policy.

On April 3, 2023, BESI co-sponsored a panel featuring experts explaining aspects of the global ecosystem of tax avoidance, including how corporations and individuals move across multiple legal jurisdictions to maintain wealth and avoid paying taxes.