Event Recaps

Political scientist Michael Shepherd shows how partisan politics at elite and mass levels explain the growing rural-urban health divide in the US.

BESI and UC Berkeley Sociology earlier this month hosted a conference in celebration and tribute to the work of Neil Fligstein, who recently retired from his long-time position at UC Berkeley.

Social scientist Jathan Sadowski demystifies how the two systems of technology and capitalism work together.

On March 11, BESI welcomed Yoni Appelbaum and Jerusalem Demsas for a highly anticipated conversation on America’s housing crisis and the decline of mobility in this country.

On February 11, BESI invited legal and political scholars from across the UC Berkeley campus to help contextualize a rapidly infolding constitutional crisis.

Technologies of information management transform how we relate to ourselves and to each other.

Since the 1980s, liberal democracies have turned to finance as a way to depoliticize distributive conflict.

Chandler's take makes the case for a progressive agenda that would reshape society for the better.

Analysts and speculators don't have any special cognitive access to the future. But that doesn't stop them from trying their hand at divination, says Rachel Weber. The consequence is our dysfunctional real estate market.

Can we automate economic decision making? More importantly, should we?

On October 5, BESI hosted a lunch conversation between New York Times journalist and podcast host Ezra Klein and Ph.D. students from the Designated Emphasis in Political Economy and Jurisprudence and Social Policy programs.