Conversations about projects and research undertaken by scholars at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. Hosted by former New York Times journalist and current CASBS research affiliate John Markoff.
CASBS brings together great minds to generate new knowledge to address wicked problems and significant societal challenges. It is a place where diverse thinkers collectively produce transformative outcomes that none could produce independently. A place where boundaries and assumptions are challenged in order to advance our understanding of human beliefs, behaviors, interactions, and institutions. A place that is human centered.
Learn more about CASBS on its web site (casbs.stanford.edu) and on Twitter (@CASBSStanford).
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Political conflicts related to immigration are thorny enough on their own. The issues and challenges intensify once we add to the mix our warming planet and its relationship to migration, immigration, and human displacement. Two 2024-25 CASBS fellows – Maureen Eger, a sociologist of immigration, and Alice Farmer, a refugee lawyer specializing in climate change and displacement – discuss scholarly and policy dimensions of the climate migration landscape in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Markoff (CASBS fellow, 2017-18).
Maureen Eger: USC faculty page | personal website | Google Scholar page |
Alice Farmer: LinkedIn page |
Read John Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022). John's next book, expected in 2027, will be published by MIT Press.
Referenced in the episode or related works
L. Yang, M. Eger, and Link, eds. Migration Stigma: Understanding Prejudice, Discrimination, and Exclusion (MIT Press, 2024)
M. Eger and S Valdez, "From Radical Right to Neo-nationalist," European Political Scientist (2019)
M. Eger, M. Hjerm, and P. Velasquez, "What is the Liberalizing Potential of Higher Education? An Analysis of Academic Fields and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Across 32 Countries," The British Journal of Sociology (2025)
M. O'Brien and M. Eger, "Suppression, Spikes, and Stigma: How COVID-19 Will Shape International Migration and Hostilities toward It," International Migration Review (2020)
L. Yang, M. Eger, and B. Link, "The Human Cost of Politicizing Immigration: Migration Stigma, US Politics, and Health," JAMA (2024)
A. Farmer and K. Linos, "Tools to Finance Climate Mobility: An Introduction to the Symposium," American Journal of International Law (2025)
A. Farmer, "Disasters in Slow Motion: Why Climate Displacement Tests International Legal Frameworks, and What to Do about it," University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law (2026)
J. Bittle, The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
G. Vince, Nomad Century: How Climate Migration will Reshape our World (Macmillan, 2022)
A. Lustgarten, On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America (Macmillan, 2024)
T. Hale, Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across Time (Princeton Univ. Press, 2024)
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Urban settings are the grounds upon which immigration stress-tests the strength of democratic values, institutions, and practices. In this audio version of a live event hosted by CASBS on May 6, 2026, CASBS board member and Stanford sociologist Tomás Jiménez, Oxford economist and 2025-26 CASBS fellow Ian Goldin, and Welcoming America executive director Rachel Perić discuss what we can learn from the experience of immigrant cities, especially those that intentionally decide to enable newcomers and long-time residents to flourish together. Hosted in partnership with Stanford's Institute for Advancing Just Societies.
Watch the event video and read an article about the event: https://casbs.stanford.edu/news/immigrant-cities-and-democracys-future
View a photo gallery from the event: https://casbs.stanford.edu/photo-gallery-what-can-immigrant-cities-teach-us-about-democracy
View the promotional flyer for this event: https://mailchi.mp/df7b0f4c4589/casbs-event-immigrant-cities-democracy?e=c2d0812d02
Learn more about:
panelist Ian Goldin: https://iangoldin.org/
panelist Rachel Perić: https://welcomingamerica.org/bio/rachel-peric/
The Institute for Advancing Just Societies: https://justsocieties.stanford.edu/
the Robert A. Scott Lecture: https://casbs.stanford.edu/news/new-lectureship-fund-honors-bob-scott
Bob Scott was featured on the Human Centered podcast in December 2022 (ep. 57), "Bob Scott is Trending": https://human-centered.simplecast.com/episodes/robertscott
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Matthew O. Jackson is perhaps the world’s most renowned scholar of the economics of networks; as a 2005-06 CASBS fellow, he wrote most of his still-influential book Social and Economic Networks. In this wide-ranging conversation with 2025-26 CASBS fellow Rajiv Sethi, Jackson discusses his foundational work on strategic modeling of networks, empirical applications on the role of economic connectedness in influencing people’s life trajectories in the U.S., related multi-disciplinary and cross-national work he is undertaking at the Santa Fe Institute, and recent cutting-edge work using large language models to gain insights into human motivations and behaviors.
Matthew O. Jackson: Stanford faculty page | Personal website | CASBS page | Wikipedia page | Google Scholar page | National Academy of Sciences bio | Stanford profile | SFI page | NBER working papers | Jackson CV |
Rajiv Sethi: Barnard faculty page | Columbia page | CASBS page | Google Scholar page | SFI page | Rajiv's Substack newsletter, Imperfect Information |
Matt Jackson works referenced in this episode:
Matthew Jackson and Asher Wolinsky, "A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks," Journal of Economic Theory (1996)
Matthew Jackson and Alison Watts, "The Evolution of Social and Economic Networks," Journal of Economic Theory (2002)
Raj Chetty, Matthew Jackson, et al., "Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobiliity," Nature (2022)
Raj Chetty, Matthew Jackson, et al., "Social Capital II: Determinants of Economic Connectedness," Nature (2022)
Chetty, Jackson, et al., Opportunity Insights Social Capital Atlas (website)
Dynamics of Wealth Inequality project (Santa Fe Institute)
Matthew Jackson, Social and Economic Networks, Princeton University Press (2008)
Matthew Jackson, The Human Network, Penguin Random House (2020)
Mei, Yuan, and Jackson, "A Turing Test of Whether AI Chatbots are Behaviorally Similar to Humans," PNAS (2024)
Xie, Mei, Yuan, and Jackson, "Using Large Language Models to Categorize Strategic Situations and Decipher Motivations Behind Human Behaviors," PNAS (2025)
Rajiv Sethi's latest op-ed is "Polymarket Anonymity Must End," Financial Times (May 7, 2026)
Subscribe to Rajiv's Substack newsletter, Imperfect Information
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Human interactions occur in a variety of contexts. When interactions are marked by conflict, misunderstanding, bias, or aggression, 2024-25 CASBS fellow Katy DeCelles illuminates the micro-sociological and social-psychological dynamics that contribute to the sub-optimal interaction outcomes, enabling the formulation of corrective solutions and better organizational design. DeCelles discusses a sampling of her innovative work in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Markoff (CASBS fellow, 2017-18).
Katherine (Katy) DeCelles: Univ. of Toronto faculty page | Google Scholar page | Poets & Quants profile |
DeCelles work discussed & relevant resources:
"Scale Dichotomization Reduces Customer Racial Discrimination and Income Inequality," Nature 639, 19 February 2025
"Racial Bias Eliminated When Ratings Switch from Five Stars to Thumbs Up or Down," Nature, 19 February 2025
"How Gig Platforms Can Mitigate Racial Bias in Ratings," Harvard Business Review, 14 March 2025
"Different or Impartial? Actor-Observer Asymmetries in Expressing and Evaluating Sociopolitical Neutrality," Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 154(11), 2025
"Understanding the Dynamics of Workplace Violence Can Improve Employee Health and Safety," Rotman School of Management, Univ. of Toronto, 2022
John Markoff: website |
John's latest book is Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022). His next book (forthcoming, 2027), will be published by MIT Press.
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In his first visit since to CASBS since his 1996-97 fellowship, UC Berkeley economist David Card lifts the veil behind the innovative empirical work on the labor market effects of immigration, minimum wages, and education that earned him the Nobel Prize in 2021. In conversation with 2024-25 CASBS fellow Dylan Connor, Card also explores issues and questions involving the relationships among geography, social and labor mobility, and wealth inequalities.
DAVID CARD: UC Berkeley page | Berkeley economics page | Wikipedia page | Nobel Prize page | Google Scholar page | Berkeley Nobel Prize article |
DYLAN CONNOR: ASU page | Google Scholar page |
Work emerging from David Card's CASBS year
Other CASBS fellows mentioned in this episode
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Philosophers Michael Brownstein (CASBS fellow 2019-20) and Dan Kelly (2018-19), two of the coauthors of "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Create Social Change," discuss their book's framing and key concepts with Damon Centola (2014-15), an expert in social network dynamics. The book offers a pragmatic guide for connecting individuals to their role as change agents, illuminating the social feedback processes through which structures, individuals, and social movements interact, unlocking the potential for systemic change.
The book is Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change (MIT Press, 2025)
Explore the book's website, containing related research, media, more about the authors, and an appendix that provides "A Deeper Dive into Individuals, Structures, and Other Key Concepts"
Michael Brownstein: CUNY Graduate Center webpage | personal webpage | Google Scholar page | CASBS page |
Dan Kelly: Purdue Univ. webpage | personal webpage | Google Scholar page | CASBS page |
Damon Centola: Penn webpage | Network Dynamics Group webpage | Wikipedia page | Google Scholar page | CASBS page |
Other works referenced in this episode:
Alex Madva, Daniel Kelly, Michael Brownstein, "Change the People or Change the Policy? On the Moral Education of Antiracists," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2023)
Michael Brownstein, Daniel Kelly, Alex Madva, "Individualism, Structuralism, and Climate Change," Environmental Communication (2021)
C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (1956) (Wikipedia)
James S. Coleman, Equality of Educational Opportunity (1966), known as The Coleman Report (Wikipedia)
Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (1979 [1984]) (Wikipedia)
Other 2018-19 CASBS fellows who Dan Kelly mentions in this episode: Christopher Bryan, Jennifer Freyd, Ying-hi Hong, Elizabeth Lonsdorf, Ruth Milkman
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Economist Paul Milgrom is celebrated for his Nobel Prize-winning work on auction theory and design. But he has published a wide range of other innovative, influential research throughout his career – including a book and articles emerging from his 1991-92 CASBS fellowship. Gani Aldashev (CASBS fellow, 2024-25) engages Milgrom on highlights of this often-collaborative or cross-disciplinary work on organizational behavior, the institutional roots of trust and cooperation, social choice for environmental policy, and more.
PAUL MILGROM: Stanford faculty page | Personal website | Nobel Prize page | Nobel bio | Wikipedia page| CASBS page |
Gani Aldashev: Georgetown faculty page | CASBS page | Google Scholar page |
PAUL MILGROM WORKS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE:
Economics, Organization, and Management (Prentice Hall, 1992), coauthored with John Roberts (CASBS fellow, 1991-92)
"Multitask Principal-Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design," The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (1991), coauthored with Bengt Holmstrom
"Complementarities and Fit Strategy, Structure, and Organizational Change in Manufacturing," Journal of Accounting and Economics (1995), coauthored with John Roberts
"Complementarities, Momentum, and the Evolution of Modern Manufacturing," The American Economic Review (1991), coauthored with Yingyi Qian, John Roberts
"Complementarities and Systems: Understanding Japanese Economic Organization," Estudios Economicos (1994), coauthored with John Roberts
"The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs," Economics & Politics (1990), coauthored with Douglass North (CASBS fellow, 1987-88) and Barry Weingast (CASBS fellow, 1993-94)
"Coordination, Commitment and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild," Journal of Political Economy (1994), coauthored with Avner Greif (CASBS fellow, 1993-94), Barry Weingast
"Is Sympathy an Economic Value? Philosophy, Economics, and the Contingent Valuation Method," in Contingent Valuation: A Critical Assessment, J.A. Hausman, ed. (Elsevier, 1993)
"Kenneth Arrow's Last Theorem," Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design (2024)
Other works referenced in this episode:
Oliver Williamson, The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting (Mcmillan, 1985). Much of this book was written at CASBS during Williamson's 1977-78 CASBS fellowship.
Works emerging from Milgrom's CASBS fellowships
Milgrom's collaborations with, intellectual interactions with, or responses to other Nobel Prize winners in this episode:
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Edward Said famously wrote most of "Orientalism" during his 1975-76 CASBS fellowship. The book criticized Western worldviews and representations of the East (or 'Orient') and their perpetuation of romanticized or colonial mindsets. A half-century later, "Orientalism" continues to shape scholarship, frame debates, and resonate in disparate regions and contexts. Four 2024-25 CASBS fellows representing different disciplines – A. Shane Dillingham, Thomas Blom Hansen, Camilla Hawthorne, and Shirin Sinnar – discuss the enduring influence and impact of Said and his landmark book.
EDWARD SAID WORKS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978)
"The One State Solution," New York Times, 10 January 1999
Representations of the Intellectual (Penguin Random House, 1996)
Other works emerging from Edward Said's CASBS fellowship
EPISODE GUESTS
A. Shane Dillingham: ASU faculty page | Personal website | CASBS page
Camilla Hawthorne: UCSC faculty page | Personal website | CASBS page
Thomas Blom Hansen: Stanford faculty page | CASBS page
Shirin Sinnar: Stanford faculty page | CASBS page
Edward Said on CASBS
In evaluating his CASBS fellowship in 1976, Edward Said noted that "...the Center does not pay enough attention (in its selection of Fellows) to revisionist and/or radical scholars in the humanities and social sciences. There are a great many intellectual developments taking place, many of them because of thinkers whose work departs from (if does not explicitly reject) the conventions of Establishment scholarship."
In addition to this constructive criticism, Said remarked in general that "...the quiet and the absence of immediate pressures were, for me, a very welcome change from past years, when deadlines, a thousand daily commitments, and the mad pressures of teaching in a large university (in a large city) made continuity of work and reflection almost impossible." Said further reportedthat Orientialism was "exactly four-fifths complete." In accounting for his "extremely valuable and productive year," he wrote: "I do not think I could have done this sort of work anywhere else...the working conditions are...comfortable in the best way for a scholar..."
Of his work on Orientalism, Said further noted: "The other more or less special advantage to this year was to have time to change directions in my work, to move from a highly theoretical kind of speculation to a very concrete historical investigation. Many of my ideas about such matters as the history of traditions, the growth of scientific and disciplinary knowledge, the ideology of scholarship, the relationship between “knowledge” and the imagination took new, concrete forms. Without such a year – and it is impossible to say where else I could have had such a year – I would still be making statements without being sure as their historical and concrete validity. Moreover, I found that I had the time to pursue leads only to prove that they were the wrong ones; the important thing was to have the time to let my work take me where it would, and not be afraid.”
Excerpted from Edward Said, "Evaluation of fellowship year 1975-76," letter to CASBS director Gardner Lindzey, August 19, 1976 (CASBS files)
Other works referenced in this episode
Timothy Brennan, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Stuart Hall, "The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power," in Essential Essays, Vol. 2 (Duke Univ. Press, 2018 [1992])
Camilla Hawthorne, "Mapping Black Geographies," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2024)
Sophia Azeb, "The 'No-State Solution'," The Funambulist (2017)
Sophia Azeb, "Who Will We Be When We are Free?" The Funambulist (2019)
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An absorbing conversation featuring Colin Camerer (CASBS fellow, 1997-98), among the world's most accomplished scholars in both behavioral economics and neuroeconomics, with economist Stephanie Wang (2024-25). Camerer discusses his groundbreaking work on the neuroeconomics of self-control and habit formation; offers insights on generating ideas for, building, then scaling behavioral models; and explains why neuroscience remains a wide-open field awaiting the contributions of so-far mostly reluctant economists and other social scientists.
COLIN CAMERER: Caltech faculty page | Camerer research group | on Google Scholar | Wikipedia page | bio at the Decision Lab | bio at MacArthur Foundation |
STEPHANIE WANG: Pitt faculty page | Personal website | on Google Scholar | CASBS bio |
Works discussed or mentioned in this episode:
C. Camerer, Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction. Princeton University Press, 2003.
C. Camerer, "Can Asset Markets Be Manipulated? A Field Experiment with Racetrack Betting," Journal of Political Economy, 1998.
C. Camerer, et al., "The Golden Age of Social Science," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021.
C. Camerer, et al., "A Neural Autopilot Theory of Habit: Evidence from Consumer Purchases and Social Media Use," Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2024.
S. Wang, C. Camerer, et al., "Looming Large or Seeming Small? Attitudes Toward Losses in a Representative Sample," Review of Economic Studies, 2025.
F. Ramsey, "Truth and Probability" (1926), published in F. Ramsey, The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays (1931)
U. Malmendier, S. Nagel, "Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk Taking?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011.
M. Cobb, The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience, Basic Books, 2020.
M. Gaetani, "CASBS in the History of Behavioral Economics," CASBS website, 2018.
Also of interest:
S. Wang, et al., eds., "Mindful Economics: A Special Issue in Honor of Colin Camerer," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
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For decades, Alejandro Portes (CASBS fellow 1980-81) has been among our most distinguished scholars elucidating the causes and consequences of immigration and assimilation. René D. Flores (CASBS fellow 2023-24) engages Portes in a conversation spanning large swaths of Portes's formidable intellectual biography, including his personal journey from Cuba and its influence on his academic trajectory, as well as his approach to social science inquiry and its delivery of insights leading to some of his most celebrated and consequential works.
ALEJANDRO PORTES: Princeton faculty page | CV | Univ. of Miami faculty page | Wikipedia page | on Google Scholar |
Biographical sketches of Portes: American Sociological Association | National Academy of Education | Princeton | National Institutes of Health | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
Robert K. Merton's full quote about Alejandro Portes is contained in the September/October 1998 issue of Footnotes, a publication of the American Sociological Association. Access the full text.
Works referenced in this episode
Alejandro Portes, "Rationality in the Slum: An Essay on Interpretive Sociology," Comparative Studies in Society and History, v13 n3, June 1972.
Alejandro Portes, "Dilemmas of a Golden Exile: Integration of Cuban Refugee Families in Milwaukee," American Sociological Review, v34 n4, August 1969.
Alejandro Portes and Robert Bach, Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Univ. of California Press, 1985.
Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou, "The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1993.
Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut, Immigrant America: A Portrait, Univ. of California Press, 2024 (fifth ed.)
Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut, Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation, Univ. of California Press, 2001.
Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou, The Asian American Achievement Paradox, Russell Sage Foundation, 2015. (Notably, Jennifer Lee was a CASBS fellow in 2002-03; Min Zhou was a CASBS fellow in 2006-06.)
Bonus: 2019-20 CASBS fellow Catherine Ramírez discusses the influence of Alejandro Portes in "What Does Assimilation Mean?" Public Books, Feb. 27, 2020. The essay was written as part of CASBS's partnership with Public Books. Ramírez writes, "By showing that there are many strata in society into which people assimilate, and many outcomes of assimilation, Portes and his coauthors have enriched our understanding of the processes by which people become American, however precarious that status may be.”
René D. Flores: Univ. of Chicago faculty page | CASBS page | on Google Scholar | Personal website |
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Generative AI tools built on large language models are increasingly "intelligent" yet lack a baby's common sense – the ability to non-verbally generalize to novel situations without additional training. What can developmental science contribute to AI? Tech journalist and former CASBS fellow John Markoff chats with 2023-24 CASBS fellow David Moore, a developmental scientist with expertise in infant cognition, on evaluating the efforts of DARPA's Machine Common Sense program as well as prospects and concerns associated with creating AIs with common sense.
DAVID MOORE: Personal website | Claremont Infant Study Center | Wikipedia page |
DARPA Machine Common Sense program
Related resource:
David Moore, et al. "Leveraging Developmental Psychology to Evaluate Artificial Intelligence," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Nov. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/ICDL53763.2022.9962183
Recommended by David Moore:
Esther Thelen and Linda B. Smith. A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action. MIT Press, 1994.
Read John Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)
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Given deeply polarized domestic politics and insufficient international commitment to the Paris Accord, can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avert some of the worst effects of climate change before it's too late? It's an elemental question that warrants despair, yes, but plenty of hope too. Political scientist Leigh Raymond, a 2021-22 CASBS fellow, explores the implicated issues through a conversation about "Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere" with its author, sustainability scientist Rob Jackson. Jackson launched the book project as a 2019-20 CASBS fellow.
ROB JACKSON: Faculty page | Stanford profile | CASBS profile | Jackson on Google Scholar | Global Carbon Project |
Publisher page for Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Media related to Into the Clear Blue Sky: KQED Forum | The Times | Scientific American | Aeon | Wired | Times Literary Supplement | The Conversation | Chemical & Engineering News | Civil Eats | more Scientific American | Literary Hub | Heatmap | Environmental Health News | Orion | Fast Company | Inside Climate News | The Wall Street Journal | Atmos | ACS Publications |
LEIGH RAYMOND: Faculty page | on Google Scholar |
Publisher page for Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading (MIT Press, 2016) | 2017 book award announcement |
"What Climate Policies do Americans Want from Their Legislatures?" Good Authority (July 5, 2022)
"Building Support for Carbon Pricing - Lessons from Cap-and-trade Policies," Energy Policy 134 (2019)
"Framing Market-Based Versus Regulatory Climate Policies: A Comparative Analysis," Review of Policy Research (2022)
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Two-time CASBS fellow and renowned anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann discusses her past and current work as an anthropologist of the mind, both in religious and psychological contexts, in conversation with 2023-24 CASBS fellow Erica Robles-Anderson. Luhrmann's award-winning work investigates visions, voices, psychosis, the supernatural, and other unusual sensory experiences and phenomena, found often at the borderlands of spirit, culture, and the mind.
TANYA LUHRMANN: Stanford faculty page | Stanford profile page | Personal website | Wikipedia page | on Google Scholar | CV |
Luhrmann, Of Two Minds. Winner of: the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, the Bryce Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology, the Gradiva Award from the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Luhrmann, When God Talks Back. Winner of the Grawemeyer Prize in Religion and the Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year.
Luhrmann, "A life in books," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2020)
Luhrmann, et al. "Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021)
ERICA ROBLES-ANDERSON: NYU faculty page | CASBS page | on Google Scholar |
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There never will be enough independent fact checking of online political advertising and their ecosystems. Can we develop methods and tools to demonetize or at least disincentivize the behaviors of disinformation producers as well as the ad firms and content providers in business with them? 2023-24 CASBS fellow Ceren Budak navigates the disinformation marketplace and illuminates pathways for better design of online communities and platforms in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist and former CASBS fellow John Markoff.
CEREN BUDAK: Faculty webpage | Personal website |
Referenced in this episode:
"Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation." Nature 630, 45–53 (2024)
The Prosocial Ranking Challenge (Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence)
"Intermedia agenda setting during the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 18(1), 254-275.
Lawrence Lessig's Pathetic Dot Theory (Wikipedia)
Read John Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)
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Are jobs requiring high levels of human interaction worth preserving in the age of automation? Can we design machines to achieve something profound – the mutual recognition that occurs when human beings truly "see" each other? CASBS faculty fellow Mitchell Stevens explores these questions with Allison Pugh, author of the 2024 book The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World. Pugh launched work on the book as a 2016-17 CASBS fellow.
ALLISON PUGH
website | Google Scholar page | Interview with Allison Pugh on building a society of connection (CASBS in partnership with Public Books) |
Princeton University Press page for The Last Human Job
MITCHELL STEVENS
Stanford GSE faculty page | Stanford profile | CASBS page | Google Scholar page |
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Santi Furnari (CASBS fellow, 2023-24) engages renowned political sociologist & 2015-16 fellow Elisabeth Clemens on the role of private civic volunteer organizations in co-constructing national identity and state capacity as well as serving as tools of governance, solidarity, and inclusion for much of American history. In what form does civic benevolence and philanthropy operate in the contemporary landscape? This absorbing conversation draws inspiration from the multi-award-winning book "Civic Gifts," much of which Clemens wrote during her CASBS year.
ELISABETH CLEMENS: Univ. of Chicago faculty page | Clemens wins 2023 Gordon J. Laing Award | on Wikipedia |
The book is Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State (Univ. of Chicago Press), winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology section, American Sociological Association; the University of Chicago Press Gordon J. Laing Award; the Outstanding Published Book Award, ASA Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity; and the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
SANTI FURNARI: CASBS page | City University of London, Bayes School of Business faculty page | on Google Scholar |
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Legendary tech journalist John Markoff (CASBS fellow, 2017-18) chats with 2023-24 CASBS fellow Young Mie Kim on her groundbreaking efforts to identify how shadowy groups use algorithms and targeted disinformation campaigns during presidential election cycles; measure their real-world distorting effects on voter mobilization or suppression; and illuminate our understanding of resulting political inequalities and their implications for American democracy.
YOUNG MIE KIM: CASBS bio | Univ. of Wisconsin faculty page | "The Disinformation Detective" (On Wisconsin magazine) |
Kim leads Project DATA (Digital Ad Tracking & Analysis) at UW. | Project DATA on X |
Kim is lead author of the article "The Stealth Media? Groups and Targets Behind Divisive Issue Campaigns on Facebook," Political Communication, v35 n4 (2018). The article won the Kaid-Sanders Award for the Best Political Communication Article of the Year by the International Communication Association.
Coverage of findings: The New York Times here and here | Wired |
Kim's testimony delivered to the Federal Election Commission |
Kim is a founding member of the International Panel on the Information Environment. Coverage of IPIE in The New York Times |
Kim among the authors of "The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment," Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, v121 n2 (2024) |
Kim a coauthor of several articles appearing in a special issue of Science on Social Media and Elections (2023) |
At the beginning of the episode, Kim discusses the influence of Phil Converse. Converse was a CASBS fellow in 1979-80 and later served as CASBS director (1989-94). Learn more about Converse's work.
Read John Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)
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Human Centered
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Stefan Link, a 2023-24 CASBS fellow, chats with Barry Eichengreen, a 1996-97 CASBS fellow and world renowned for his expertise at the nexus of international economics and economic history. They discuss some of Eichengreen's most prominent works — including "The European Economy Since 1945," which emerged from his CASBS experience, and "Golden Fetters," his most cited book — interrogating their durability and applicability to contemporary industrial, financial, and monetary policy challenges and governance.
BARRY EICHENGREEN: UC Berkeley faculty page | Homepage & CV | on Wikipedia |
STEFAN LINK: CASBS bio | Dartmouth faculty page |
Mentioned in the episode:
Eichengreen's talk on "Steering Structural Change" (session 2) at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (16 April 2024)
Eichengreen & Temin NBER paper on "The Gold Standard and the Great Depression" (June 1997)
Select Eichengreen books
Elusive Stability: Essays in the History of International Finance 1919-1939 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990)
Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression 1919-1939 (Oxford Univ. Press, 1992)
International Monetary Arrangements for the 21st Century (Brookings Institution, 1994)
Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (Princeton Univ. Press, 1994)
European Monetary Unification: Theory, Practice, and Analysis (MIT Press, 1997)
Toward a New International Financial Architecture: A Practical Post-Asia Agenda (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 1999)
Financial Crises and What to Do About Them (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002)
Capital Flows and Crises (MIT Press, 2004)
Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (MIT Press, 2006)
The European Economy Since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond (Princeton Univ. Press, 2006)
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012)
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses — and Misuses — of History (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)
Stefan Link book
Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order (Princeton Univ. Press, 2020)
Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, as well as the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association
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Human Centered
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Labor historian & 2023-24 CASBS fellow Gabriel Winant in conversation with 2018-19 CASBS fellow Ruth Milkman, among the nation's most renowned sociologists of labor. In addition to interrogating divisions within and segmentation across labor markets in recent decades, Milkman also has remained attuned to the complexity of the overall working class experience, essential for illuminating ways in which workers can unite and organize.
RUTH MILKMAN: CUNY faculty page | personal website | ASA bio |
Milkman's book Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (2020) | Polity Press Q&A |
GABRIEL WINANT: CASBS bio | Univ. of Chicago faculty page | faculty Q&A |
Winant's book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America (2022)
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Human Centered
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Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Nathan Matias about often-overlooked public interest questions and concerns regarding the deployment of tech platform algorithms and AI models. Specifically, Matias is a player in filling the two-way knowledge gaps between civil society and tech firms with an eye on governance, safety, accountability, and advancing the science — including the social science — of human-algorithm behavior.
Nathan Matias: Cornell University faculty page | CASBS bio | Personal website |
Citizens & Technology Lab
Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Select Matias publications
"Humans and Algorithms Work Together — So Study Them Together" Nature (2023)
"Impact Assessment of Human-Algorithm Feedback Loops" Just Tech, SSRC (2022)
"The Tragedy of the Digital Commons" The Atlantic (2015)
"To Hold Tech Accountable, Look to Public Health" Wired (2023)
Link to more Nathan Matias public writing | Matias on Medium | on LinkedIn |
Read John Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)
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Human Centered
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Recorded before a live audience, Margaret Levi, Alison Gopnik, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a CASBS project, "The Social Science of Caregiving," which is reimagining the philosophical, psychological, biological, political, & economic foundations of care and caregiving. The goal is a coherent empirical and theoretical account or synthesis of care that advances understandings and policy discussions. [The episode notes provide links for further exploration.]
Article on CASBS's project on The Social Science of Caregiving
Web page for the project on The Social Science of Caregiving
Related: Human Centered episode #61, "Developing AI Like Raising Kids" (Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang)
Alison Gopnik: CASBS bio | UC Berkeley Bio |
Gopnik article, "Caregiving in Philosophy, Biology & Political Economy" (Dædalus)
Margaret Levi: CASBS bio | CASBS program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy |
Anne-Marie Slaughter: New America bio |
Slaughter articles, "Care is a Relationship" (Dædalus) | "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" (The Atlantic)
Slaughter book, Unfinished Business (Penguin Random House)
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Human Centered
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Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist & 2017-18 CASBS fellow John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Rebecca Slayton on how the field of computing expertise evolved, eventually giving rise to the niche of professionals who protect systems from cyber-attacks. Slayton's forthcoming book explores the governance & risk implications emerging from the fact that cybersecurity experts must establish their authority by paradoxically revealing vulnerabilities and insecurities of that which they seek to protect.
REBECCA SLAYTON
Cornell University faculty page | | CASBS page |
Slayton's book Arguments that Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012 (MIT Press)
Slayton's article "What is the Cyber Offense-Defense Balance?," International Security
Video: Talk on "Shadowing Cybersecurity: Expertise, Transnationalism, and the Politics of Uncertainty" at Stanford Univ.
JOHN MARKOFF
New York Times page
Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Steward Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)
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Human Centered
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Two-time CASBS fellow Fred Turner engages CASBS board of directors chair Abby Smith Rumsey before a live audience to discuss her new book "Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History." When the erasure or distortion of collective memory through storytelling hijacks fact, truth, and history itself, what kind of information infrastructures can effectively confront those false narratives? Turner and Rumsey explore the tensions between history and storytelling and resulting implications for political beliefs, actions, and our collective sense of reality.
ABBY SMITH RUMSEY
CASBS website bio | Personal website | Talk at Long Now Foundation in partnership with CASBS
MIT Press web page for Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History
CASBS Q&A with Rumsey (2022)
FRED TURNER
Stanford University profile | Fred Turner's books | on Google Scholar |
"Machine Politics: The Rise of the Internet and a New Age of Authoritarianism," Harper's Magazine (2019)
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Human Centered
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Renowned sociologist Michèle Lamont (CASBS fellow, 2002-03) discusses her new book, Seeing Others, with former CASBS director Woody Powell. The book assembles decades of Lamont’s scholarship, engaging some of contemporary society’s most elemental challenges and advancing key building blocks toward a shared human experience marked by greater inclusion, belonging, dignity, empathy, and equality.
MICHÈLE LAMONT:
Harvard University faculty page | Harvard sociology page
Personal website | Simon & Schuster page for Seeing Others
The Successful Societies project, which held its first convening at CASBS in 2003
WALTER "WOODY" POWELL
Stanford University faculty page | CASBS page
Personal website | PACS page
Announcement of Powell as CASBS director
CASBS summer institute on Organizations and Their Effectiveness (2016-present)
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Human Centered
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Fully understanding and regulating our complex information ecosystems will require creating new cultures and modes of collaborating, new organizational frameworks and, yes, working with generative AI models in service of aggregating actionable scientific knowledge. Angela Aristidou (CASBS fellow, 2022-23) navigates the crucial questions and challenges with Phil Howard (CASBS fellow, 2008-09), a renowned scholar of tech innovation and public policy as well as co-founder and chair of the new International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE).
PHIL HOWARD:
University of Oxford page | Wikipedia page | Personal website |
INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT:
Website | Oxford article on IPIE | New York Times article on IPIE |
ANGELA ARISTIDOU
UCL School of Management page | CASBS page | UCL article on AA | on ResearchGate |
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NOV. 16, 2023 Event: 2023 Sage-CASBS Award Lecture | Elizabeth Anderson & Alondra Nelson
Meet the 2023-24 CASBS class
Announcing a new fellowship partnership
CASBS Program Curates Issue of Dædalus
Previous podcast episode: The Memory Science Disruptor
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Dan Simon, a 2022-23 CASBS fellow and USC law professor, joins in conversation with Elizabeth Loftus, a 1978-79 CASBS fellow and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine. Loftus is known in the public sphere through her decades-long study of memory – specifically, its malleability and fallibility – as well as her application of findings as an expert witness or consultant in hundreds of legal cases. Loftus's book "Eyewitness Testimony," completed at the Center, charted the course of her career that followed and serves as this episode's launching point.
ELIZABETH LOFTUS
UC Irvine faculty page
Wikipedia page
TED Talk (2013), "How reliable is your memory?"
Nobel Prize Summit (2023), "The misinformation effect"
The New Yorker (2021), "How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory"
DAN SIMON
USC Gould School of Law faculty page
CASBS bio
"In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process" (Harvard Univ. Press, 2012)
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While you're listening to this episode, 2016-17 CASBS fellow Jonathan Jansen likely will write another few thousand words. As a scholar of education & leader of education institutions, Jansen is South Africa's most towering figure. To call him prolific is a gross understatement. He writes a steady stream of books & more books. As a public intellectual he writes a separate steady stream of columns & essays. And he's written a family memoir too. We bring 2022-23 CASBS fellow Zimitri Erasmus, a social anthropologist who is working on a book on writing praxis, in conversation with Jansen to unlock some secrets & insights into his most powerful & liberating weapon for engaging the world – writing.
JONATHAN JANSEN
on Google Scholar
Jansen website
Mentioned in the episode
Corrupted: A Study of Chronic Dysfunction in South African Universities (2023)
Song for Sarah: Lessons from my Mother (2017)
Jansen and CASBS
"Loving and Blacking" (symposium, 2017)
"Higher Ed at the Crossroads" (webcast, 2020)
ZIMITRI ERASMUS
CASBS page
on Google Scholar
at University of Witswatersrand
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What are the most effective collective actions that social protest movements can or should undertake in the context of deep societal conflict and polarization? CASBS fellows Eran Halperin (2022-23) & Robb Willer (2012-13, 2020-21) compare their cross-national research findings and explore Halperin's real-time applied work with the dramatic, ongoing protests in Israel.
ERAN HALPERIN links:
Psychology of Intergroup Conflict and Reconciliation Lab (PCIL)
Halperin on Google Scholar
aChord: Social Psychology for Social Change
ROBB WILLER links:
Willer's Stanford faculty page
Willer's personal web page
Polarization and Social Change Lab
Willer on Google Scholar
Article in JPSP, "The Activist's Dilemma" (2020)
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Drawing upon a career of scholarship extending from studies of labor, citizenship, and the state in Africa to explorations of global empire, colonialism, and globalization, three-time CASBS fellow Frederick Cooper – in conversation with 2022-23 fellows Jean Beaman and Martin Williams – gives a master class on how critical and relational thinking serve historical inquiries that advance our understandings.
Frederick Cooper, CASBS fellow 1990-91, 1995-96, 2002-03
NYU faculty page
Wikipedia page
Fred Cooper books
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives (2018)
Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960(2014)
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010)
Cooper Books in CASBS's Ralph W. Tyler Collection:
Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History (2005)
Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996)
Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America (1993)
Fred Cooper article referenced in the episode
"What is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective" (2001)
Jean Beaman faculty page
Martin Williams faculty page
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This episode is produced in association with the CASBS project "The Social Science of Caregiving," and draws further inspiration from the CASBS project "Imagining Adaptive Societies." Learn more about both:
https://casbs.stanford.edu/programs/projects/social-science-caregiving
https://casbs.stanford.edu/programs/projects/imagining-adaptive-societies
Ted Chiang on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang
Ted Chiang in The New Yorker
"Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-computers-wont-make-themselves-smarter
"ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
"Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?" https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
"Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction
Explore the work of Alison Gopnik
http://alisongopnik.com/
http://www.gopniklab.berkeley.edu/alison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Gopnik
https://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-alison-gopnik-transcript.html
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This is a podcast version of a live CASBS webcast event. View video of the event here.
The event was produced in association with CASBS's program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy. Learn about the program here.
CASBS's moral political economy program guest-curated the Winter 2023 issue of Dædalus, a publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The entire issue is open access here. Panelist John Ahlquist's essay in the issue provided impetus for the organization of the event this podcast episode draws from.
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Glenn Loury on Google Scholar
Coate & Loury (1993), "Will Affirmative-Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?"
Loury, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (The Du Bois Lectures)
The Tanner Lectures at Stanford (2007) Lecture 1 | Lecture 2
Loury (2008), Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Loury (2019), "Why Does Racial Inequality Persist?"
Somanathan and Allen, eds. (2020) Difference without Domination: Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies
Loury public symposium at CASBS (2016), "Racial Inequality in 21st Century America" (video)
CASBS webcast (2020), "The Persistence of Racial Inequality" (video); panel featuring Glenn Loury, Joshua Cohen, Francis Fukuyama, Alondra Nelso, & Margaret Levi
The Glenn Show (YouTube)
The Glenn Show (Manhattan Institute)
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Robert Keohane bios: CASBS | Princeton | Wikipedia
Comparative Politics of Climate Change Policy workshops at CASBS
Complex interdependence
After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy
2016 Balzan Prize | prize speech
Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
Johan Skytte Prize
Keohane & Ostrom, Local Commons and Global Interdependence
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Emerging Trends in The Social and Behavioral Sciences
Bob’s Introduction to the project
About the Robert A. Scott Lectureship Fund
The classic mud volleyball photo (click then scroll to the bottom of the article)
Human Centered episode featuring Richard Wrangham
CASBS in the History of Behavioral Economics
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Causal Inference for Social Impact Lab
EGAP
Jake Bowers
Carrie S. Cihak
Dan Hopkins
Ruth Levine
Piyush Tantia
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Panelists
Elizabeth Anderson University of Michigan
Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute
Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton Princeton
Amy Kapczynski Yale Law
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Creating a New Moral Political Economy program at CASBS
Social Science for a World in Crisis
Sid Tarrow
"Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development" - Cambridge University Press
Ed Walker
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Jacob Ward
Kristian Hammond
Daniel Ho
Jennifer Logg
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"Gen Z Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age"
Roberta Katz
Sarah Ogilvie
Jane Shaw
Linda Woodhead
Kat Tenbarge
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Henry Farrell
Marion Fourcade
William Janeway
Charlton McIlwain
Zeynep Tufekci
Suggested Reading
"The Moral Economy of High Tech Modernism"
"Making Space for Black Software"
"Learning Like a State: Statecraft in the Digital Age"
"Isomorphism through algorithms: Institutional dependencies in the case of Facebook"
"The Ecology of Innovation"
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Creating a New Moral Political Economy
Allison Stanger
Daniel Dennett
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
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American Voices Project crisis reports
Our Towns
James Fallows
Corey Fields
David Grusky
Hazel Markus
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Peter Loewen
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Prerna Singh
Robb Willer
Alexis Madrigal
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Jenna Bednar
Hilary Cottam
James Manyika
Gillian Tett
Suggested Readings
“Governance for Human Flourishing”
“The Social Contract in the 21st Century”
“Welfare 5.0: Why We Need a Social Revolution and How to Make it Happen”
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Arun Majumdar
Eric Beinhocker
Genevieve Bell
Kim Stanley Robinson
Suggested Readings
“I am a carbon abolitionist”
“Making the Fed’s Money Printer Go Brrrr for the Planet”
“The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI”
“Touching the future: Stories of systems, serendipity and grace”
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Carolyn Merchant
Paula Findlen
"Science Turned Upside Down: Carolyn Merchant’s Vision of Nature, 40 Years Later"
"The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution"
"The Anthropocene and The Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability"
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Lawrence D. Bobo
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Claude Steele
Margaret Levi
Social Science for a World in Crisis Series
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Estelle Freedman
Panelists
Jennifer Freyd
Jennifer Gómez
Carolyn Warner
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Event Page with Info
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John Markoff
Nilam Ram
Byron Reeves
Abby Smith Rumsey
Maryanne Wolf
The Human Screenome Project
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Luis Fraga
James Fishkin
Martin Gilens
Jane Mansbridge
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CASBS promo flyer for this discussion
"Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? Culture, Causation, and Responsibility" Glenn's paper discussed by the panel
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Joshua Cohen
Francis Fukuyama
Alondra Nelson
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Danielle Allen
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Robert Putnam
Moderator:
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Panelists:
Tara Behrend
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Phyllis Moen
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Sandra González-Bailón
A great thread on her recent paper “Exposure to News Grows Less Fragmented with an Increase in Mobile Access”
“Bots are Less Central than Verified Accounts during Contentious Political Events”
Her book Decoding the Social World
Facebook 2020 Election Research portal
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Panelists
Nina Bandelj
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Caitlin Zaloom
Moderator
Debra Satz
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Panelists:
Shona Brown
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Moderator:
Paul Brest
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Mario Biagioli's UCLA Profile
Mario's article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, "Fraud by Numbers: Metrics and the New Academic Midconduct"
Mario’s book “Gaming The Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research”
2019-20 CASBS fellow Brian Arthur’s paper “All Systems Will Be Gamed: Exploitative Behavior in Economic and Social Systems”
Race and the Movement for Justice in America
Video of the conversation
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CASBS director Margaret Levi, co-editor of the Annual Review of Political Science, recently curated discussions with Christian Davenport and Rachel Kleinfeld that explore findings in articles they published in the Review.
The Long-Term Consequences of Street Clashes
"Privilege Violence", or How Governments Use Violence to Maintain Inequality
Video of this conversation
Their paper in the Harvard Journal on Legislation "Twentieth-Century America as a Developing Country: Conflict, Institutions, and The Evolution of Public Law"
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Notable events mentioned in this episode:
The West Virginia Coal Wars
The National Labor Relations Act
The Taft-Hartley Act
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
Jen Pan’s homepage
Her recent book “Welfare for Autocrats”
Big thanks to CASBS staff member Teresita Heiser for opening the episode for us!
Alta Charo
She recommends checking out the documentary “Human Nature,” in which she appears.
Learn about CRISPR gene editing
Revive & Restore, the organization working on “genetic rescue” of endangered and extinct species.
The controversy over He Jiankui’s genetic modification of human embryos
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CASBS staff member Jason Gonzales read this episode's opening line. Woohoo!
Jefferson Cowie
Jefferson’s recent New York Times Piece “The ‘Hard Hat Riot’ Was a Preview of Today’s Political Divisions”
The illuminating CASBS symposium “_Contesting the Nation_”, with Jefferson Cowie, Kathleen Belew, and Catherine Ramírez
Richard Rorty, CASBS fellow 1982-83 “Achieving Our Country”
Donald F. Kettl’s “The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn’t Work”
Arlie Russell Hochschild’s “Stranger in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right”
Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”
Special thanks to CASBS staff member Paola Dios for the opening the episode!
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Wendy K. Tam Cho's homepage
Familiarize yourself with Optimization Problems
"How to Quantify (and Fight) Gerrymandering” - Quanta Magazine
“Toward a Talismanic Redistricting Tool: A Computational Method for Identifying Extreme Redistricting Plans” - Wendy K. Tam Cho and Yan Y. Liu
Wendy’s reading recommendation “Deep Thinking” by Gary Kasparov"
Susan Holmes' Stanford Page
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Claude Shannon, former CASBS fellow, and the "father of information theory"
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Shout out to Barbie Mayock, CASBS dining program coordinator, for reading this episode's opening line!!
W. Brian Arthur’s homepage at the Santa Fe Institute
“Where is technology taking the economy? ” - W. Brian Arthur. McKinsey Oct. 2017
“Complexity and the Economy” W. Brian Arthur. Oxford University Press, 2014
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Sherry Wong
Fluxus Landscape
Icarus Salon
CASBS AI Ethics & Governance Map Launches
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Robert Frank on Twitter
His new book “Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work”
His choice of influential book is Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling’s “Micromotives and Macrobehavior”
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Noelle Stout
Noelle’s book, “Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class”
“Life By Algorithms” by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson
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Jennifer Freyd
Institutional Betrayal Research Homepage
Learn about DARVO
Watch the CASBS Symposium: “Betrayal and Courage in the Age of #MeToo”
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Dan Kelly's Purdue homepage
Dan Kelly's book “Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust”
Two fascinating papers coauthored by Dan:
“Minding the Gap: Bias, Soft Structures, and the Double Life of Social Norms”
“Who’s Responsible for This? Moral Responsibility, Externalism, and Knowledge about Implicit Bias”
CASBS’s project on Creating a New Moral Political Economy
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Steven Greenhouse on Twitter
Steven’s recent book “Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor”
The CASBS project on Creating a New Moral Political Economy
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Cara Wong's Website
Cara Wong's 2018 paper "Maps in People’s Heads: Assessing a New Measure of Context"
And her 2010 book "Boundaries of Obligation in American Politics" - Cambridge University Press
V. O. Key Jr.'s "Southern Politics In State and Nation" - University of Tennessee Press
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Arati Prabhakar
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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King County's Communities of Opportunity program
Kirsten's article "The almighty credit score: It tracks the past, predicts the future, and maintains existing hierarchies"
San Francisco's Mission Asset Fund
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's report on payday loans
Betrayal Trauma Theory (a concept pioneered by 1989-90 & 2018-19 CASBS fellow Jennifer Freyd)
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Nate Persily’s homepage with links to publications and key works
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Social Science One builds industry-academic partnerships to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society's greatest challenges.
CASBS Symposium: The Consequences of Technological Developments for Politics and Government
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Mike Ananny
Mike Ananny's recent book "Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear" - MIT Press
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act - Wikipedia
Overview of the study of media effects - Wikipedia
CASBS symposium: Digital Media, the Public Sphere, and Democratic Governance
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Patricia Banks' website
Patricia Banks' latest book, "Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums"
Patricia's previous book, "Represent: Art and Identity among the Black Upper-Middle Class"
Patricia's piece on "Collecting African American Art: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Obama Era" - Blackpast.org
Pierre Bourdieu's influential book "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste"
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Kim Williams
Kim's book "Mark One Or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America" tells the story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census.
States Parties and Social Movements Cambridge University Press
Black Lives Matter
Dynamics of Contention
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Adrienne Mayor
"Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology"
Adrienne Mayor’s piece on the ancient roots of the uncanny valley - Time
Antikythera mechansim
Talos
HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey"
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Elizabeth Lonsdorf's site
Elizabeth Lonsdorf at National Geographic
Jane Goodall Institute's Gombe Stream Research Center
International Primatological Society
"Chimps Know Dead When They See It" Discover Magazine
"Chimps Filmed Grieving for Dead Friend" BBC
"Chimps Mourn Nine-Year-Old's Death?" National Geographic Video
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Movement for obfuscating the Electoral College in the US
First-past-the-post electoral systems
and a glossary of alternative electoral systems
Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab
Open source investigative platform Bellingcat
Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity
Alliance for Securing Democracy, Hamilton 68
“The Two Cultures” C. P. Snow
“Estonia, The Digital Republic” The New Yorker
Stuart Russell on algorithms from “John Brockman: Possible Minds” The Long Now Foundation
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Jerry Jacobs at U Penn
The much discussed paper on automation and the workforce by Frey and Osborne
"Will the Robots Take Care of Grandma?" Jerry Jacobs
"Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" John Maynard Keynes, 1930
"Smarter Than You Think" A series examining advances in AI and impacts on society (including pieces by host John Markoff)
Explore Bureau of Labor Statistics data yourself
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Jacob Ward
Techno Utopianism
Partnership On AI
National Academies Report on Sexual Harassment of Women
"Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace" John Perry Barlow
New Moral Political Economy Project
Federal Reserve report on economic well-being of U.S. Households
Kahneman and Tversky’s (both former CASBS fellows) classic paper on Judgement and decision-making
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Margaret Levi
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Moral Political Economy Project
‘Free to Choose’ Milton and Rose Friedman
Montpelerin Society
‘Bowling Alone’ Robert D. Putnam
Port Huron Statement
Triple Revolution
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