Richard Reeves is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute. He works on "social mobility, inequality, and family change." Before his time at Brookings, he served as Director of Strategy for the UK's Deputy Prime Minister.

How Good Looking Are You? Brains, Optimism, and Climate Change  People are frequently exposed to competing evidence about climate change. We examined how new information alters people’s beliefs. We find that people who doubt that man-made climate change is occurring, and … Read more

“Moral Symbols: A Necklace of Garlic against Unethical Requests” Sreedhari Desai, Assistant Professor in the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina works to understand "how, why, when and where social inequality, organizations and institutions interact." She … Read more

"PPE: A Freakonomics Perspective" Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. He is best-known as co-author of the New York Times bestselling Freakonomics series. They have sold more than 7 million copies in more than 40 countries. Dubner … Read more

*** THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO HURRICANE FLORENCE. IT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 AT 5:30 PM! *** This is a meeting for students who would like to find out more about the PPE Program, … Read more

This is a meeting for current PPE minors as well as any students who would like to find out more about the PPE Program, the PPE minor, and our various extracurricular offerings. It will be a chance to meet some … Read more

Held in collaboration with Better Angels, this workshop brings together 5-7 self-identified conservative-leaning students and 5-7 self-identified liberal-leaning students for a day of moderated activities and discussions that clarify disagreements, reduce stereotyped thinking, and begin building the relationships needed to find common … Read more

An intensive one day workshop on papers in progress by our PPE Research Assistant Professors: Ryan Doody, "Consider the Ostrich: Non-Utilitarians, Ex Ante Interests, and Burying Your Head in the Sand" Simone Gubler (“Forgiveness, Politics, and the Law: the Case Against … Read more