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| Peter Hall
August 31, 2021, Paper: "This article argues that the relationship between capitalism and democracy is not immutable but subject to changes over time best understood as movements across distinctive growth and representation regimes. Growth regimes are the institutionalized practices central to how a country secures economic prosperity based on complementary sets of firm strategies and government policies. Representation regimes reflect…
July 2021. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed David Eaves, Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Project on Digital Era Government at Harvard’s Ash Center, on the future of digital government, COVID-19’s impact on technology, and healthcare IT. …
| Jeremy Friedman
2021, Book: "A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide. In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent Asian and African countries and established Latin American states pursued a socialist development model. Jeremy Friedman traces the socialist experiment over forty years through the…
| Danielle Allen
June 15, 2021, Video: "Harvard University Professor Danielle Allen, drawing from her longitudinal bipartisan report (…
| Peter Hall
May 2021, Paper: "This paper argues that the relationship between capitalism and democracy is not immutable but subject to changes over time best understood as movements across distinctive growth and representation regimes. Growth regimes are the institutionalized practices central to how a country secures economic prosperity based on complementary sets of firm strategies and government policies. Representation regimes reflect conditions in the…
| Danielle Allen
April 16, 2021, Audio: "Danielle Allen, a scholar of Athenian democracy with two PhDs, has decided she has something to offer to the practice of 21st century democracy in Massachusetts. In December, the Harvard professor launched an exploratory run for governor and has embarked on a series of what she calls “Commonwealth conversations” with residents as she weighs a full-fledged campaign for the 2022 Democratic nomination. While the leap from…
April 2021. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Richard Zeckhauser, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, on his latest book, The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private…
| Danielle Allen
March 29, 2021, Audio; "Harvard economist and former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff joined FOX Business’ “Mornings with Maria” to provide insight into the impacts of the Suez Canal blockage and what spending is coming next under President Biden."
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| Robert D. Putnam
March 22, 2021, Video: "Robert Putnam is the Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. He is a leading political scientist recognized by the Skytte Prize — the world’s highest accolade for a political scientist. In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal. His books have been translated into twenty languages. Alumni of his small “Community in America” seminar at Harvard have gone on to distinguished…
| Cass R. Sunstein
2021, Book: "The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money should be invested in the hopes of avoiding catastrophe. Lacking full information, should decision-makers focus on avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes? When should…