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Undergraduate and graduate econ students are invited for a Berkeley Economics Student Career Forum with Berkeley Economics Alumni on Thursday, April 21, 2022, 4 p.m. PT. Our alumni are here to share their UC Berkeley journey and to answer your questions. During this hour-long Zoom session, we will discuss Resume building, networking advice, interview prep, and address your questions in a Q&A. Register today.
Julia Sizek, Matrix Content Curator, interviewed Berkeley Economics Professor Richard Gilbert about his book, Innovation Matters: Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy. Read the interview
Vitaliia Yaremko, a fifth-year UC Berkeley Ph.D. student in economics, in a first-person narrative from an interview with UC Berkeley Blog: ‘I’m more proud than ever to be Ukrainian’. Read more
The ripples of a catastrophe in Ukraine will be felt in many parts of the world, says Professor Yuriy Gorodnichenko in a Berkeley Blog article. Read more
What can an analysis of India’s rapidly changing political economy, its developmental history, and its relationship with the global economy tell us about the current predicament of increasing authoritarianism? Join "Authoritarianism in the world's Greatest Democracy", an upcoming panel on the political economy of democratic backsliding in India. Monday, 2/14 at 1 PM PDT. Register here
Realtime Inequality, a powerful new web tool from Berkeley Economics faculty members Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, along with Thomas Blanchet, a UC Berkeley economist and postdoctoral researcher, will allow users to track how economic growth and policy affect US distribution of wealth and income. Read more
(UC Berkeley illustration by Neil Freese)