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Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
November 3, 2023
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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WJH 1550
In Person
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear: progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New...

Elizabeth Popp Berman (University of Michigan)
October 6, 2023
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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WJH 1550
In Person
Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy Between the 1960s and the 1980s, an economic style of reasoning—one focused on efficiency, incentives, choice, and competition—became prominent within U.S. public policy...

Erin Cech (University of Michigan)
March 4, 2022
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Zoom
Virtual
The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality “Follow your passion” is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. In this talk, I discuss research from my recent book The Trouble with Passion on...

Georg Rilinger (MIT Sloan School of Management)
September 26, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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WJH 1550
Hybrid
Failure by Design – The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning The Western energy crisis was one of the great financial disasters of the past century. The crisis began in April 2000, when price spikes started to rattle California’s...

Gowri Vijayakumar (Brandeis University)
February 14, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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WJH 1550
Hybrid
At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions...

Gözde Güran (Georgetown University)
October 11, 2024
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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WJH 1550
Hybrid
Markets in Conflict: Trust Networks and Wartime Exchange in Syrian Hawala How do markets emerge and expand in the midst of conflict? I explore this question by examining the market for hawala –peer-to-peer money transfers– during Syria’s civil war...

Hero Ashman (Harvard CRISES)
September 18, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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WJH 1550
In Person
"Family Formation and the Racial Division of Reproductive Labor: Evidence from the Great Migration, 1910-1940" Domestic workers the world over provide labor necessary for the care of better-off families. In the United States, this division of labor has...

Ho-Fung Hung (Johns Hopkins University)
February 18, 2022
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Zoom
Virtual
The Global Political Sociology of US-China Rivalry The recent rivalry between the US and China is more about the shifting balance of economic forces in global capitalism than about ideological differences. Since the 1990s, Wall Street and US TNCs have...