Professor Martin GilensDepartment of Politics, Princeton UniversityChaired by Professor Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and Director, University Center for Human Values America faces many daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. Yet, our…
Earlier this month, President Trump said, “We expect to be cutting a lot of Dodd-Frank.” As President Trump considers how to manage financial regulation, lessons can be learned from how federal agencies, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), modified and enforced regulations following the stock market…
LAPA's seminar format asks attendees to familiarize themselves with the paper in advance. The commentator opens the session by summarizing the main themes in the paper and presenting some topics for discussion. Paper copies of the seminar paper are generally available a week before the talk in 416A Robertson Hall during regular…
Two major initiatives in China are gaining momentum inside and outside of the country. Internally, China’s judiciary has been leading an “open judiciary” initiative, culminating in the establishment of the Guiding Cases System, in which judges are instructed to follow Guiding Cases (“GCs”), de facto binding cases, to achieve…
The Future of Capitalism Talk SeriesKenneth Rogoff is Thomas D. Cabot Professor at Harvard University. From 2001-2003, Rogoff served as Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund. His 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly has been very widely cited by academics,…
