The National Investment Authority: An Institutional Blueprint and Implications for Climate Policy
April 30, 2024
12:00pm-1:30pm
Online webinar (via Zoom)
Please register to join us on April 30, 2024 at 12:00pm for an online lecture by Saule Omarova, Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law, Cornell University. Omarova will lay out an institutional design scheme for the proposed National Investment Authority (NIA), a federal entity to be charged with the financing and implementation of a long-term public investment strategy for the United States. And she will explain how this NIA, and other institutional proposals that she has developed, could transform industrial policy in general, and climate policy in particular, in the United States.
Public Investment for Climate and Social Goals: An Agenda for Brazil and Latin America
April 23, 2024
12:00pm-1:30pm
Online webinar (via Zoom)
Please register to join us on April 23, 2024 at 12:00pm for an online lecture by Camila Gramkow, Director A.I. Of The Economic Commission For Latin America And The Caribbean (ECLAC), Brazil Office.
Industrial Strategy: Theory and Practice
April 19, 2024
2:00pm-3:30pm PDT
Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
Join us on April 19 as Susan Helper, Carlton Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University and former Senior Advisor for Industrial Strategy in the Biden Administration, will reflect on her experience designing and implementing strategies for supply chains such as electric vehicles, personal protective equipment, and clean energy. She will discuss the role of academic theory in these efforts, and provide suggestions for future academic work.
Has US Antitrust Reached a Turning Point? A Panel Discussion
April 2, 2024
4:00pm-6:00pm
Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
Please join us on April 2, 2024 from 4:00pm-6:00pm for a panel featuring Gerald Berk, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Oregon; Stacy Mitchell, Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance; AnnaLee Saxenian, Professor in the School of Information, UC Berkeley; Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project; and Steven Vogel, Professor of Political Science and Political Economy, UC Berkeley.
Nick Romeo: “The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy”
March 19, 2024
4:00pm-5:30pm
Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
Join us on March 19th from 4:00pm-5:30pm for a talk by Nick Romeo, New Yorker journalist and lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, focused on his book, The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy.
Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor
March 12, 2024
4:00pm-5:30pm
Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
Please join us on March 12 at 4:00pm for a talk focused on the book Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor, by Katherine S. Newman, UC System Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, and Elisabeth S. Jacobs, Deputy Director, WorkRise and Associate Vice President, Executive Office of Research, Urban Institute.
The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save The Planet
March 12, 2024
12:00pm-1:30pm
Online webinar (via Zoom)
Please register to join us on March 12, 2024 at 12:00pm for an online lecture by Brett Christophers, Professor at Department of Human Geography, Professor at Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University
Defensive Nationalism: Explaining the Rise of Populism and Fascism in the 21st Century
February 6, 2024
4:00pm-5:30pm
Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
Join us on February 6 as Professor Beth Rabinowitz will discuss her recent book, “Defensive Nationalism: Explaining the Rise of Populism and Fascism in the 21st Century,” and the powerful thesis that the irrationalism and hatred that marked the early 20th century has resurged in the 21st. In turn, our response to violent instability and fracture requires a clear-eyed understanding of the explosive politics of both eras.
Trevor Jackson, “Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830”
December 5, 2023
12:30pm-2:00pm
Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
Please join us on December 5 at 3:30pm for an Authors Meet Critics panel on “Impunity and Capitalism: the Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830,” by Trevor Jackson, Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Professor Jackson will be joined by William H. Janeway, Affiliated Member of the Economics Faculty at Cambridge University; David Singh Grewal, Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law; and Anat Admati, the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
California Spotlight: From Boom to Doom in San Francisco
October 31, 2023
12:00pm-1:30pm
Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
Join us on October 31, 2023 as a group of panelists will discuss the current state of commercial real estate in San Francisco — and what lies ahead. Panelists include Ted Egan, Chief Economist of the City and County of San Francisco; Nicholas Bloom, the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University; and Nancy Wallace, the Lisle and Roslyn Payne Chair in Real Estate Capital Markets at Berkeley Haas. Amir Kermani, Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Haas School of Business and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, will moderate.