CategoriesPPE News PPE Student Studies Abroad at Oxford The PPE Program is proud to feature Katherine Zhou, a rising sophomore who is majoring in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Katherine has been admitted as…
CategoriesPPE Extracurricular Activities Darrell M. West: The Future of Work This semester, the PPE Reading Group will discuss Darrell M. West’s (Brookings) book The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation (books provided). The PPE Reading…
CategoriesPPE Research Thomas Rowe Discusses Egalitarianism and Uncertainty Thomas Rowe and Alex Voorhoeve’s article “Egalitarianism under Severe Uncertainty,” will be discussed on the PEA Soup Blog on May 15-16, 2019, with a critical…
CategoriesPPE Research Gil Hersch Presents at the Center for Humanities Gil Hersch, a postdoctoral fellow in the PPE Program, will give a lunch-time talk that is organized by the Center for Humanities. Dr. Hersch will…
CategoriesPPE News, PPE Undergraduate Club PPE Undergraduate Club Launched The PPE Undergraduate Student Ambassadors are launching a new club at Virginia Tech. The PPE Club aims to provide a forum for students to use…
CategoriesPPE Research Speaker Series Michael Douma Speaks on Creative Historical Thinking Michael Douma from Georgetown University will give a talk on the topic “Creative Historical Thinking.” The talk will take place on April 10, 2019, from…
CategoriesPPE News, PPE Undergraduate Club PPE Undergraduate Student Ambassadorships 2019-2020 Each academic year, the PPE Program selects several undergraduate students to serve as ambassadors for the program. The primary tasks of the ambassadors are to…
CategoriesPPE Research Sudipta Sarangi Publishes on Ecological Endowments and Sex Ratios Sudipta Sarangi (Head of the Department of Economics), together with colleagues, recently published an article on ecological endowments and sex ratios, considering cultural norms especially…
CategoriesPPE Research Book Symposium on Michael Moehler’s Minimal Morality Jerry Gaus, Chad Van Schoelandt, and Dominick Cooper comment on Michael Moehler’s Minimal Morality: A Multilevel Social Contract Theory (Oxford University Press, 2018). Here is…
CategoriesPPE Research Speaker Series Douglas Noonan Speaks on Freelancing, Crowds, and Markets Douglas Noonan, a PPE Visiting Research Scholar from Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, will give a talk on the topic “Freeing the Freelancers: Innovation,…
