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

In this talk, recorded at BESI on September 30, 2025, Cambridge researcher Luke Kemp explores the ways explore the ways growth-obsessed, extractive institutions like the fossil fuel industry, Big Tech, and military-industrial complexes rule our world and produce new ways of annihilating our species

In a September 2025 article for the journal Politics and Society, Isabella Mariani argues that enhancing competition may not be sufficient for regulating the attention economy — and may even exacerbate its harms.

In this second event in our series on democratic backsliding in the U.S., panelists from across the UC Berkeley campus touched on the weakening of Congress, Trump and the courts, the pressures on civic institutions, and the possible dynamics and implications of popular protest, among other urgent topics.

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.

BESI associate director Amanda Behm reports from Paris on a timely workshop co-organized by BESI.

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.

Senior researcher Samuel Trachtman reflects on a recent virtual convening with researchers and policymakers hosted by BESI.

BESI Climate research lead Jonas Meckling comments on the widening gulf between central bank climate leaders and stragglers.