October 17, 2024
4-5:30pm
8th floor Social Sciences Building Join us as philosopher and economist Daniel Chandler discusses his recent book and its blueprint for social and economic justice. Taking philosopher John Rawls’s humane and egalitarian liberalism as his starting point, Chandler builds a powerful case for a new progressive agenda that would fundamentally reshape our societies for the better. Upcoming Events
Free and Equal: What Would a Just Society Look Like?
AI, Markets, and Economics
October 22, 2024
4-5:30pm
8th floor, Social Sciences Building
BESI is delighted to announce a talk by Professor Dame Diane Coyle. In addition her groundbreaking research on themes of progress and productivity and service as former advisor to the UK Treasury, she has held a number of public service roles including Vice Chair of the BBC Trust (2006-2014) and member of the UK Competition […]
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Seizing the Means of Prediction: How Finance Speculates on the Future City
October 31, 2024
3:30-5pm
8th floor, Social Sciences Building
Why do cities adopt certain instruments, and how does the use of particular methods of raising capital affect who benefits from and pays for urban infrastructures? Rachel Weber’s work advances the concept of “financialization” as shorthand for how these tools bring new politics, kinds of knowledge, and risks to bear on policy and development decisions. […]
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Democracy in Default: Finance and the Rise of Neoliberalism in America
November 4, 2024
4-5:30pm
8th floor, Social Sciences Building
Join us as Brian Judge discusses his new book and its bold reappraisal of financialization and the birth of neoliberalism. Judge examines how liberalism disavows the problem of distributive conflict, leaving it vulnerable when those conflicts erupt. When the postwar growth engine began to slow, finance promised a way out of the resulting political impasse, […]
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The Ordinal Society
November 6, 2024
4-5:30pm
8th floor, Social Sciences Building
BESI is excited to host a talk by Marion Fourcade celebrating the publication of her book, The Ordinal Society, co-authored with Kieran Healy. Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Fourcade and Healy argue that technologies of information management, fueled by the abundance of […]
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