Public Policy
May 10, 2021
Forum Podcast: “Radical Markets for Radical Democracy” with Glen Weyl
Glen Weyl speaks to Forum Fellow Nicolas Wittstock about his work with RadicalXchange and the reform agenda they propose. In his 2018 book with Eric Posner, Glen Weyl suggests radical reforms to private property, the voting system, immigration, antitrust policy, and the way that technology companies handle data. In this podcast, Glen reflects on the…
April 21, 2021
Menaldo & Wittstock’s new working paper
Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock wrote and posted a new working paper: Bidenism as Trumpism 2.0: America’s Bipartisan Embrace of Neo-Mercantilist Policies and What this Entails A hefty dose of nationalism infuses Build Back Better, U.S. President Joe Biden’s economic policy priorities. Echoing Trump’s Make America Great Again promises, it embraces a zero-sum logic regarding…
April 2, 2021
Forum Podcast “Capitalism without Capital” – With Johnathan Haskel
Guest: Johnathan Haskel – Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London and Director of the Doctoral Programme. Prof. Johnathan Haskel and Forum Fellow Nicolas Wittstock discuss Johnathans’ book Capitalism without Capital – the rise of the intangible economy (with Stian Westlake). In it, the authors argue that that business investment in…
March 24, 2021
Forum Podcast “Why So Many Journalists are Killed in Democracies” with Sabine Carey
Guest: Sabine Carey – Professor and Chair of Political Science, International Relations at the University of Mannheim, Germany. In this episode, Professor Sabine Carey speaks to Forum host Nicolas Wittstock about her work on the killing of journalists. Perhaps counterintuitively, journalists are most at risk in democratic countries rather than autocracies. Professor Carey…
March 12, 2021
Say it Ain’t So, Joe: Please Don’t Mess with the U.S. and China’s Shared Prosperity
By Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock On February 24th, Joe Biden signed an executive order to review U.S. supply chains. The review seeks to establish if the U.S. relies too heavily on foreign suppliers in four key industries: computer chips, large-capacity batteries, pharmaceuticals, and rare earth minerals used in electronics. The problems it seeks to address are growing…
February 23, 2021
UW Political Science Faculty Panel Winter 2021: The Biden Agenda
Joe Biden has assumed the Presidency during some of the most turbulent times in the nation’s history. With both Congress and the nation closely divided between the parties, can Biden govern? What are the prospects for his agenda on immigration, racial justice, climate change, economic stimulus, confronting the coronavirus, and other issues? We…
February 11, 2021
Breaking Up Big Tech: A Solution in Search of a Problem
Check out Victor Menaldo’s article about Big Tech and regulation on VentureBeat via the link below!
February 8, 2021
Forum Podcast: “Prison Governance” with David Skarbek
Guest: David Skarbek – Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. In this episode, Forum affiliate Megan Erickson speaks to David Skarbek of Brown University about his research on prison gangs and how prison systems are organized in different countries. Related work and links mentioned in the podcast: David Skarbek – The Social…
February 7, 2021
Long and Menaldo on digital platforms & algorithmic amplification
In this piece, UW Political Economy co-founders James Long and Victor Menaldo think about this issue from first principles (in this case, market externalities) and consider potential solutions in light of tradeoffs and the quest to maximize social welfare, not score political points. https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/06/from-the-election-lie-to-gamestop-how-to-stop-social-media-algorithms-from-hurting-us/ While in the piece they voice skepticism about whether…
February 1, 2021
Forum Podcast – “Understanding Adam Smith” with Glory Liu
Guest: Harvard Social Studies Fellow Glory Liu. In this episode, Glory Liu and Forum Fellow Nicolas Wittstock discuss Glory’s work on the perception of Adam Smith in the United States and how Smith’s work relates to contemporary academic social science and social problems. Related work and links mentioned in the podcast: Adam Smith…
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