Part 1 of SPIA in NJ's Fall 2024 series, New Jersey and the American Economy: What’s Needed for the Garden State to Lead a Thriving Country:The concept of reparative justice has taken hold in various policy circles, but with so much to heal and repair, how do we make progress without feeling overwhelmed? As the old saying goes,…
Join us for a book talk with Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, about his recent book The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. In an age when liberal democracy is in recession around the world, and authoritarianism is on the rise, some now argue that capitalism is better without…
A talk featuring author, Josh Cowen about his new book, "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Voucher", a deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives.
Climate change is changing the characteristic of weather extremes and slow changing climatic trends (physical climate risk). These combined with rising concentration of people and assets in high-risk areas, aging infrastructure and various macroeconomic factors, are leading to growing financial impacts on people, businesses,…
Climate has rapidly moved to the fore of the global governance agenda. The Political Economy of Climate Change conference will convene leading scholars for two days of research-based conversation on the issue. Scholars from Princeton and elsewhere will present and discuss cutting-edge scholarship on the political economy of…
Come join us for a talk about the Polish economy, Polish economic development and applications to the present day. This event is open to the Princeton University community and we especially encourage those interested in economic development, political economy, and the EU to attend! SpeakerMarcin Piatkowski, Professor of…
