The Center for Political Economy (CPE) at Columbia World Projects nurtures new thinking, including alternatives to market fundamentalism, geared to building inclusive political economies. To call attention to ambitious new ideas that engage these issues, the Center is launching a series that will embrace and critically examine influential recent books through discussions with their authors, open to the public, at Columbia University.

Recently, a spate of economists has authored conceptual books on topics of interdisciplinary and cross-sector import for an audience broader than their field. Meanwhile, scholars from other disciplines are tackling pressing problems of political economy from a range of perspectives. To spur engagement between economists and scholars and practitioners from other disciplines, this series will bring together diverse perspectives in an open dialogue.

The series will open with Leah Boustan, Professor of Economics at Princeton University, discussing her latest book Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs 2022). Streets of Gold provides new evidence about the past and present of the American Dream through a data-driven analysis of mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University, will serve as the discussant.

An excerpt from the book will be circulated to registrants in advance of the gathering.

Time: 4:15 PM — 5:45 PM EST

Free!

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