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The Designated Emphasis in Political Economy - Political Economy - University of CA Berkeley

The Designated Emphasis in Political Economy - Political Economy - University of California, Berkeley

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Berkeley POLITICAL ECONOMY is hiring! Our undergraduate major has thrived for more than 40 years (with about 250 graduates per year today), and our new PhD minor is booming (with more than 100 PhD students from 16 departments or schools). Details here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05425

Assistant Professor – Political Economy – 50% Political Economy and 50% in a Related Discipline

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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I just signed the Academics' Letter to World Leaders to Support an International Panel on Inequality. If you are an academic, please consider joining us. forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Berkeley Political Science is hiring. Priorities include International Relations, Public Law, and American Politics. polisci.berkeley.edu/research-and...

Just read @jonathanbchait.bsky.social "The Antitrust Theory of Everything" and response from Barry Lynn @openmarkets.bsky.social. Have to side with Lynn. The neo-Brandeisians do not claim that antitrust cures all - but address imbalances of power more broadly. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A Sweeping Theory of Everything Is Revolutionizing the Democratic Party

Democrats are in thrall to the idea that corporate consolidation is America’s biggest, and maybe only, problem.

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Just back from the Emerging Political Economies Network meeting in Johannesburg. I was struck by some startling glimpses of idealism: e.g. Doris Tshepe on antitrust policy in the public interest, or Zane Dangor on a principle-based global order. Crazy, right? witsepenetwork.witsevents.co.za

What is the best anti-oligarchy policy agenda?@sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social and I make the case for the marketcraft solution.

Predistribution Is the Anti-Oligarchy Solution

Predistribution transforms society and markets to generate less inequality in the first place.

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Brian Judge on the dangers of private credit markets . . .

Is the Private Credit Boom Going Bust?

Brian Judge warns that the financial system is increasingly exposed to complex deals that few can assess.

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My amazingly talented nephew Natti Vogel has just pre-released his new album. Check it out!

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I’m giving you all 3 weeks to get an early listen to my sexy, cinematic, intimate emotional-liberation album only at www.nattivogel.com/prerelease I hope it gives you life over the holidays the revolution will not be spotified or something like that

The Democratic Party needs a bold economic vision for a better future. @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social and I propose the predistribution solution.

The Predistribution Solution - Roosevelt Institute

Introduction This policy brief analyzes the American political economy past and present through the lens of “predistribution.” Predistribution policies seek to achieve greater equality in opportunitie...

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Want a bold economic program for the US? Well, Martin Carnoy, Michael Reich, and Derek Shearer have a pretty good one . . . irle.berkeley.edu/publications...

America's Long Game is International Education. An important letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education from Penny Edwards (UC Berkeley) and other directors of East Asian studies centers. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Letter | America’s Long Game Is International Education

What happens if we stop investing in language learning, cultural fluency, and global knowledge?

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What determines how much you get paid? I started to think about this a few years ago, and that led me on a winding path through labor economics textbooks and sociological research and eventually resulted in this piece just out (open access) in Politics & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Toward an Interdisciplinary Political Economy of Wages - Steven K. Vogel, 2025

This article reviews how some social scientists have transcended disciplinary boundaries in their scholarship on wage formation and proposes specific pathways f...

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The Designated Emphasis in Political Economy - Political Economy - University of CA Berkeley

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