Rapid growth in electricity demand from data centers and cryptocurrency mining has already begun to affect the U.S. electricity grid, with impacts likely to grow over the next five years. We use a detailed energy system optimization model to evaluate how projected demand through 2030 may influence electricity generation,…
The Student Affiliates of the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Public Policy & Behavioral Science welcome University of Chicago behavioral economist Alex Imas for a conversation about his book with nobel laureate Richard Thaler, The Winner's Curse. All undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows, are…
Noah Zucker is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University, specializing in international and comparative political economy. He studies the political economy of climate change, with associated interests in bureaucracy, finance, identity, and labor. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political…
Allison Carruth is a Professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton, where she directs the Program in Environmental Studies. She is the co-founder and faculty director of Blue Lab and was the founding director of UCLA’s Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies…
In this talk, Weila Gong will present findings from her book, Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities. Drawing on comparative case studies, process tracing, and over one hundred interviews with policy practitioners inside and outside the government, Gong opens the “black box” of subnational…
As part of the 25th anniversary of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD), the university community and members of the public are invited to join an international colloquium on the Global Food and Water Security Project as well as advanced techniques in agriculture, forestry, and water stewardship.
