Jul 22, 2020
Even before there was President Trump, there was “the wall.”
America has spent billions on border enforcement, which includes a barrier between the US and Mexico. And the current administration’s nationalistic promises to put “America first” have given the border wall heightened symbolic importance. But it’s...
Jul 8, 2020
The world has been adjusting to the information age for the last 50 years now. And so have its autocracies, according to our guest today.
Daniel Treisman, political scientist at UCLA, says that illiberal leaders are building modern authoritarian regimes with a new set of tools to keep themselves in power.
In the Fall...
Jul 1, 2020
Swarthmore professor Amanda Bayer has worked much of her career to address diversity in economics. She has published papers about it, served on the AEA’s Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, and co-organized a national summit on the topic with the Federal Reserve. She is also the...