Alyssa Battistoni, Member (2022–23) in the School of Social Science, reflects on her book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature in an interview that traces how “free gifts of nature” help explain what capitalism uses but doesn’t price—from ecological processes to pollution framed as an “externality.”
In 2019–20, Julia
Ott, Member in the School of Social Science and
Associate Professor at the New School for Social Research, is
examining the origins of venture capital as an idea, as a form of
investment, and as an organized industry.
In this public lecture, Thomas Piketty, Professor at École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (EHESS) and the École
d’économie de Paris/Paris School of Economics, presents new
findings and reflections on global inequality dynamics as
part...
