Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will speak about her 2021 book, "Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity."
Recently, a spate of economists have authored big conceptual books on topics of interdisciplinary and cross-sector import. This is a welcome trend in which economists are going beyond the standard, often narrowly-conceived research paper. Meanwhile, scholars in other disciplines are tackling pressing problems of political economy from a range of different perspectives. To spur interdisciplinary engagement between economists and scholars and practitioners from other disciplines, the Columbia Center for Political Economy will host a series to embrace and critically examine key “big ideas” books through discussions, open to the public, at Columbia University.
