Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800

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Past Events
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Equality and Efficiency in Advanced Democracies: Revisiting the Leaky Bucket Hypothesis
Jonathan Hopkin - Reader in Comparative Politics , Department of Government, London School of Economics
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Friday, April 6, 2012
Racial Policy Alliances and Partisan Polarization: An Integrated Analysis
Desmond King - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, Nuffield College, Oxford University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Towards a Social Investment State
Bruno Palier - Associate Research Professor (CNRS), Sciences Po (Centre d'études européennes)
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Friday, March 2, 2012
Activation, American Style
Margaret Weir - Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Friday, February 17, 2012
Economic Patriotism: Reinventing Control over Open Markets"
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Friday, November 18, 2011
The Two-Tiered Politics of Financial Reform in the United States
J. Nicholas Ziegler - Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
John Woolley - Chair, Department of Political Science, University of California - Santa Barbara
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Ten Questions about the Eurozone Crisis and Whether It Can Be Solved
Wendy Carlin - Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, November 3, 2011
Inequality and Capitalism in the Long Run
Thomas Piketty - Professor of Economics, EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Friday, October 28, 2011
The Co-evolution of Political and Capitalist Institutions since the Industrial Revolution
Torben Iversen - H.H. Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard
David Soskice - Professor of Political Science, Duke University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Quality of Government, Inequality and Social Trust
Bo Rothstein - August Röhss Professor in Political Science, Gothenburg University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Friday, October 7, 2011
Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France
Gunnar Trumbull - Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Friday, September 16, 2011
Social Resilience and Well-Being under Neo-Liberalism in the Developed Democracies
Peter Hall - Krupp Foundation Professor, Harvard University
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall