Seminar Series: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and IQSS sponsor this seminar on formal and quantitative political research. The Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy (PE) supports research-related activities that integrate the study of economics and politics, whether by studying economic behavior in the political process or political behavior in the marketplace. In general, positive political economy is concerned with showing how observed differences among institutions affect political and economic outcomes in various social, economic, and political systems and how the institutions themselves change and develop in response to individual and collective beliefs, preferences, and strategies. All interested faculty and students are invited to attend.
Note: All seminars are in person only, either in the Littauer Center or the Knafel Building. Please see the calendar event or subscribe to the mailing list to confirm location.
About the Seminar
Alberto Alesina was a principal organizer of, and a central participant in, the Political Economy Seminar that has been a mainstay of scholarly activity in Political Economy at Harvard for thirty years. His untimely death shocked and saddened the Political Economy community here and around the world. The Political Economy Seminar that Alberto helped run continues to meet, although we miss his trenchant comments and constant good humor. The Seminar is now organized by faculty from the departments of Economics and Government, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Harvard Business School, and attracts scholars from around Harvard as well as other area institutions.
In Alberto’s memory, we have named the seminar “The Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy.” The Seminar continues to receive support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. In addition, it has received a very generous contribution from Eni, an Italian energy company, in honor of Alberto’s life work. We are grateful to the support we have received, and continue to receive, from all these sources, as well as from the departments of Economics and Government.
Seminar Organizing Committee
Peter Buisseret
Jeffry Frieden
Vincent Pons
Pia Raffler
Dani Rodrik
James Snyder
Marco Tabellini
David Yang
Faculty Sponsors
Dani Rodrik
dani_rodrik@harvard.edu
David Y Yang
davidyang@fas.harvard.edu
James Snyder
jsnyder@gov.harvard.edu
Marco Tabellini
mtabellini@hbs.edu
Pia Raffler
praffler@gov.harvard.edu
Vincent Pons
vpons@hbs.edu