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Reading Groups

August 16, 2013

…our democracy. And we need them big and strong. The Wealth of Nations By Adam Smith Semester: Fall 2022 Group Leader: Devin Lane, Affiliated Grad Student Adam Smith’s The Wealth…

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…

PPE Courses

July 31, 2023

…thought, we shall read large portions of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics. As the signal work in initiating modern thought, we shall read Machiavelli’s Prince. This seminar will be conducted…

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…

Interview with Stephen Dubner

September 3, 2018

Kate Karstens of the Daily Tar Heel interviewed Stephen Dubner, who gave the first PPE Lecture of this year….

Five New PPE Faculty in 2021!

September 16, 2021

PPE WELCOMES FIVE NEW FACULTY MEMBERS! https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2021/09/New-Faculty-Announcement-1.mp4   Read more about our new faculty below: Alexandra Oprea joined the Political Science Department and the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program in…

A New Student Podcast: Pit Perspectives

September 20, 2022

NEW STUDENT PODCAST: Pit Perspectives Pit Perspectives is a student-run podcast. We record your candid and anonymous opinions in The Pit, add commentary and supplementary materials, and create episodes on…

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/  …