Government & Politics
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Data Competition Won’t Protect Your Privacy
Apr 13, 2022
Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to reign in Big Tech. But such moves won’t go far enough in protecting user privacy. New: A reply to critics
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Event Video: MLK 55 Years Later: Can The Church Study War No More?
Apr 4, 2022
On April 4th, 1967, at a time when the justness and necessity of the Vietnam War was broadly accepted, Dr. King issued a stirring rebuke of the U.S. establishment. He was criticized heavily for challenging US foreign policy; he was told to stick to civil rights.
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The US Doesn't Pursue Foreign Policy, Only Security Policy
Mar 10, 2022
Patrick Lawrence, writer and executive editor of The Scrum, analyzes the roots of US foreign policy failures, how these are reflected in the current confrontation with Russia, which can be found the US establishment’s weddedness to power and to an unwillingness to see the other’s perspective.
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Vikasarth 2022 Session 1: Kerala’s Response to the Economic Reforms
Webinar6:00pm - 7:30pm IST
Mar 10, 2022
Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala
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Where Did You Go, Vice President Joe?
Mar 4, 2022
President Biden’s first SOTU Address was a missed opportunity to say what he knows to be true: Stock buybacks manipulate the market and leave most Americans worse off
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The Impact of Campaign Finance on Congressional Voting: A Machine Learning Approach
Mar 3, 2022
Legislators who vote together get paid together
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Working Paper Series
Measuring the Impact of Campaign Finance on Congressional Voting: A Machine Learning Approach
Mar 2022
Using aggregate campaign finance data as well as a Transformer based text embedding model we can predict roll call votes for legislation in the US Congress with more than 90% accuracy.
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Resource Limits to American Capitalism & The Predator State Today
Feb 10, 2022
VIDEO
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On Finding Repair and Relief from the Commodification of Social Design
Feb 3, 2022
Terrence McNally, the host of the podcast Free Forum: A World that just Might Work, interviews Rob about the current state of the world and what needs to happen for us to get out of the mess in which we find ourselves.
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Fateful Collision: NATO’s Drive to the East Versus Russia’s Sphere of Influence
Jan 7, 2022
How did this dire situation come about?
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Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) 4.3 -The Path for India's Climate Transition
Conference6:00-7:30pm IST | 12:30-2:00pm GMT | 7:30-9:00am EST
Dec 10, 2021
The 4th Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) is a virtual, multi-capsule conference series that aims to bring together legal, economic and public policy thinkers to consider a variety of real world issues in India in a holistic manner.
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2020’s Knife Edge Election: An Analysis
Nov 16, 2021
Covid and BLM protests were key to Biden’s victory
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Working Paper Series
The Knife Edge Election of 2020: American Politics Between Washington, Kabul, and Weimar
Nov 2021
Covid and BLM protests were key to Biden’s victory
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Nov 5, 2021
Economic journalist Martin Wolf’s address to the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University’s 20th anniversary conference, Economic Policy and Economic Theory for the Future
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Great Powers and One Planet: Faultline, Key Issues, and Common Challenges
Oct 12, 2021 | 09:00—10:00
From climate change to global public health, from inclusive development and sustainable growth, areas for cooperation abound between the US and China in a world hungry for directions and leadership. If, as Martin Luther King says, we may arrive in different ships, but we are in same boat”, how might the US and China work together on these issues?