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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.

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.

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.

Are we now a ‘broligarchy’? A record 13 billionaires could end up serving in Trump’s administration.

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.

Berkeley Political Economy program director Steven Vogel was also invited to share a book recommendation.

Lobo and Brutger’s collaboration began when Lobo enrolled in Brutger’s political science graduate course.

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