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PPE Courses

July 31, 2023

…resource allocation, unemployment, inflation, and the determination of prices. Honors version available Offered This Semester: Yes Section: 001 Credits: 3 Grading: Letter Gen Ed: FY-LAUNCH (only designated sections), FC-KNOWING; SS…

Reading Groups

August 16, 2013

…especially true amongst people in the younger generations. Indeed, according to one study, a majority of 18- to 29-year-old Americans do not even support capitalism. In the face of such…

New Video: Games, Public Policy, and the Pandemic

April 20, 2020

*** Video of the conversation is available HERE. *** Games, Public Policy, and the Pandemic A strikingly large number of Americans are now subject to shelter-in-place orders. Many will turn…

PPE Videos

July 2, 2016

available on WiPhi Open Access Philosophy. Anomaly’s “What Are Public Goods?,” “Collective Action Problems,” and “Can Greed Be Rational?” are available here and Sayre-McCord’s “The Prisoner’s Dilemma” is available here….

Working Groups

August 26, 2019

…exercises on your own laptop while one laptop will be hooked up with overhead projection. The material is available in beta version on the web. There is no hard copy….

Congratulations, Professor Jen Morton!

November 1, 2020

…the 2021 Frederic W. Ness Book Award for the year’s book that best contributes to the understanding and improvement of liberal education. More information here: https://www.aacu.org/press/press-releases/aacu-announces-winner-2021-frederic-w-ness-book-award Book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179230/moving-up-without-losing-your-way Book…

A New Student Podcast: Pit Perspectives

September 20, 2022

…relevant social issues facing college students at UNC and across the country. Pit Perspectives started with an observation- at a school as large as UNC, students tend to form small…

Congratulations, Phi Beta Kappa Inductees!

April 14, 2022

…chapters and alumni associations across the country raise and distribute more than $1 million in awards, scholarships and prizes benefiting high schools and college students. More information here: https://www.unc.edu/posts/2022/04/12/unc-chapel-hill-inducts-236-into-elite-honorary-society/  …

Congratulations, Phi Beta Kappa Inductees!

October 29, 2021

…chapters and alumni associations across the country raise and distribute more than $1 million in awards, scholarships and prizes benefiting high schools and college students. More information here: https://www.unc.edu/posts/2021/10/29/unc-chapel-hill-inducts-223-students-into-phi-beta-kappa/  …

PPE Program in the News

February 15, 2018

…– Brenee Goforth and Malik Jabati – presented alongside program director Geoff Sayre-McCord at the February 1st meeting of the Board of Trustees. To read the article online, click here….