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Reading Groups

August 16, 2013

…policies should be determined by cost-benefit analysis, as such analysis might be subject to rights-based limitations. The Cost-Benefit Revolution also includes discussions of particular issues, like the role of courts,…

Congratulations, Professor Jen Morton!

November 1, 2020

Please join us in congratulating PPE Professor Jen Morton, whose book, Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Cost of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press), has just been awarded…

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 Courses

July 31, 2023

…POLITICS REQUIREMENT FOR THE PPE MINOR. Credits: 3 Grading: Letter Gen Ed: PH Introduction to Economics | ECON 101 Introduction to fundamental issues in economics including competition, scarcity, opportunity cost,…

PPETP

March 18, 2021

…have moved online, and to establish a prominent public forum for timely and informed philosophical conversations about life in the shadow of the coronavirus. The PPE Program would like to…

Internships/Fellowships

September 30, 2013

…the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals.” The Center for Public Justice “The Center for Public Justice is…

PPE Speaker Series

November 17, 2021

…Can Save the World” with Erik Angner (Stockholm University) https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2023/01/HEEL-LIFE-wpv_x.png An Egalitarian Case for the Gendered Division of Labor https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2023/01/PPE-Speaker-Series-HL-and-event-page-Presentation-169-500-×-350-px-1200-×-350-px-wpv_x.png Curtailing Freedoms https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2023/01/PPE-Speaker-Series-HL-and-event-page-Presentation-169-500-×-350-px-500-×-350-px-wpv_x.png Forgiveness: Personal and Political 1 2 3…

Opportunities

November 10, 2017

…will be provided and the cost of dinner will be covered. Each group will meet eight times over the course of the semester for approximately an hour and a half…

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…