The Center for Political Economy identifies and advances the most promising contemporary developments that concern the economy. Part of Columbia World Projects within Columbia Global, the Center promotes a new political economy with a robust institutional, cross-disciplinary orientation that refines questions of power, uncertainty and inequality.
News
This year’s topic for the conference – put together in conjunction with the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and the Center for Development Economics and Policy – was Perspectives from Developed and Developing Countries.
The small fraternity that controls the major digital platforms has already proven capable of even more intrusive and insidious forms of control than most states can muster.
Woodford serves on the advisory board of the Center for Political Economy
Events
Identity and International Political Economy Conference
Paths into Climate Advocacy - CPE Climate Idea Lab
International Economics & Geopolitics | Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Research News
National Academy of Sciences publishes paper by student whose research was funded by the Center
Clara Berestycki uses mobile phone data to study behavioral responses to 2018 California wildfires.
Columbia University Press publishes book co-authored by Nikhar Gaikwad
“Climate Justice Now” explores debates on climate justice across the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
Study shows CHIPS Act created many more semiconductor jobs than expected
Brookings has published a summary – as well as a podcast and a video – of the working paper, “Employment impacts of the CHIPS Act."
Videos
Oct. 19, 2026
This session opens the Center for Political Economy's fall series on the political economy of liquidity by considering how the entanglements of financial actors shape and produce uncertainty within sovereign debt markets.
May 1, 2026
Critically acclaimed minimum wage scholar, Arindrajit Dube discusses his new book on pay setting in the United States.
April 13, 2026
This scholarly discussion, hosted by the Center for Political Economy, focused on the different approaches of each discussant to moving beyond capitalism.