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Organized by the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy at BESI, the Rhodes Center at Brown, the European Institute at LSE, and the Huth Initiative at LSE, the annual Finance and Democracy Summer School program aims to weave an emerging generation of researchers into an international network that bolsters the study of finance, political economy, and democracy.

Sam Trachtman reflects on the BESI panel event he moderated back last month.

Jones joined the DE during her third year as a graduate student. We caught up with her to learn more about her research and how her involvement in the DE contributed to her award-winning scholarship.

BESI senior researcher Samuel Trachtman shares his top three takeaways from a recent panel discussion featuring California political scholars and practitioners.

On November 13, BESI convened 26 experts on California politics and policy to discuss how to make California more affordable.

For he majority of its history, decarbonization policy focused on distributing the burden of climate change mitigation. Recently, however, decarbonization has a competitive turn, BESI Climate lead Jonas Meckling observes in a new article for Nature.

In a recent article for the BiGS Actionable Intelligence, the blog for the Institute for Business in a Global Society (BiGS) at Harvard Business School, BESI Climate research lead Jonas Meckling observes that with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the U.S. is taking "significant steps back” on clean energy.

A new working paper co-authored by BESI climate lead Jonas Meckling explores how ownership structure shapes business attitudes to decarbonization policy.

Graduate students, junior faculty, and their mentors gathered in May at UC Berkeley for the annual Consortium on American Political Economy Summer Academy.

BESI senior researcher Sam Trachtman discusses a new paper he co-authored for the journal Energy Policy.

BESI hosted a candid discussion on addressing California’s housing crisis with academics, practitioners, and nationally acclaimed journalists. Senior researcher Samuel Trachtman reflects on key takeaways.

In early April, business leaders, policy experts, and academics convened in Boston for the first-ever symposium hosted by the new Green Industrial Strategy (GISt) Project to discuss the future of the green industrial strategy "golden age" of the early 2020s.