Every year the Duke/UNC PPE program brings together about 20 outstanding PPE students from across the country to discuss a core topic with moral, economic, and political dimensions.  Past topics have included Crime and Punishment, Equality, and Libertarian Paternalism.  This … Read more

The PPE Program will be running two intensive one day seminars in the Spring, one on “Equality: Whether and Why It Matters” on February 27th, and the other on “The Morality of Markets” on April 2nd.

We are offering three reading groups this Spring: “Banerjee and Duflo’s Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Poverty“; “Emotions in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics”; and “Yoram Hazony’s The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture.” The groups will meet over … Read more

Would you like to have food and conversation with one of your PPE professors, on the PPE Program’s tab? You and one or two friends can invite a PPE faculty member or grad student to lunch anywhere within walking distance … Read more

The PPE Program, in collaboration with the Institute for Humane Studies, will be running two intensive one day seminars in the Fall, one on “Equality: Whether and Why It Matters” on Sept. 26th, and the other on “Public Choice and … Read more

We are offering three reading groups this Fall: “Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are divided by Politics and Religion,” “Sally Haslanger’s Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique” and “Human Rights and International Law.”  The groups will … Read more

We are delighted to welcome Brookes Brown and David Frank as new faculty in the PPE Program.

We are delighted to welcome Brookes Brown and David Frank as new faculty in the PPE Program.