Recap
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Setting the agenda for American political economy
Graduate, junior faculty, and their mentors gathered in May at UC Berkeley for the annual Consortium…
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3 takeaways from BESI’s ‘Blue Trifectas’ convening
Senior researcher Samuel Trachtman reflects on a recent virtual convening with researchers and policymakers hosted by…
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Becca Lewis: How Reactionary Politics Came to Silicon Valley
Disinformation and far-right digital media expert Becca Lewis recounts how right-wing politics came to Silicon Valley…
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Michael Shepherd: How Partisan Politics Are Killing Rural America
Political scientist Michael Shepherd shows how partisan politics at elite and mass levels explain the growing…
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A Celebration and Tribute to the Work of Neil Fligstein
BESI and UC Berkeley Sociology earlier this month hosted a conference in celebration and tribute to…
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Jathan Sadowski: ‘A Ruthless Criticism of AI and Capitalism’
Social scientist Jathan Sadowski demystifies how the two systems of technology and capitalism work together.
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Yoni Appelbaum and Jerusalem Demsas on Housing, Mobility, and the Thwarting of Economic Opportunity
On March 11, BESI welcomed Yoni Appelbaum and Jerusalem Demsas for a highly anticipated conversation on…
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Panel: ‘Democratic Backsliding in the United States’
Legal and political scholars contextualize the rapidly infolding constitutional crisis.
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Marion Fourcade: ‘The Ordinal Society’
Technologies of information management transform how we relate to ourselves and to each other.
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Brian Judge: ‘Democracy in Default’
Since the 1980s, liberal democracies have turned to finance as a way to depoliticize distributive conflict.