Books

In this monograph, BESI faculty affiliate David J. Vogel and CUNY political scientist Roger Karapin offer an original analysis of the federal government’s sectoral climate policy accomplishments over the last five decades with concrete recommendations for policy makers.

Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy's research director offers a new perspective on the birth of neoliberalism, showing that — counter to the prevailing narrative — financialization was not the offspring of deregulation but the mechanism that allowed neoliberalism to take root.

In a chapter for "Organizations and Climate Change," Volume 102 of Research in the Sociology of Organizations, BESI steering committee member Neil Fligstein and DE student Janna Huang trace the emergence and trajectory of NGOs and financial institutions that advance corporate accountability ability for greenhouse gas emissions.