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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!

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

The PPE Program has been featured in the University Gazette! Two current PPE students – Brenee Goforth and Malik Jabati – presented alongside program director Geoff Sayre-McCord at the February…

Fall Reading Groups

August 22, 2016

We are offering four reading groups this Fall: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Danielle Allen’s Education and Equality, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay’s The Federalist Papers, and John Stuart Mill’s…

Why PPE?

October 20, 2012

…as well as all other social sciences that demand rigorous analytical skills. The PPE Program helps connect our students to relevant internship, fellowship, and career opportunities.  Additionally, University Career Services offers a broad…

Five New PPE Faculty in 2021!

September 16, 2021

…institutional design. She is currently working on a series of articles investigating the appropriate distribution of education power among local and state governments, teachers’ unions, parents’ associations, non-profits, law courts,…

PPE looking to fill new senior position

January 10, 2017

…accomplished scholar with specialties in moral and political philosophy, who has research and teaching interests that fall at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics. Further information is available HERE….

In Memoriam: Geoffrey Brennan (1944-2022)

August 2, 2022

…and the growing field of “behavioral economics” later in the ’90s, which developed into scholarship at the intersection of philosophy of social science and ethics. He published several books in…

PPE Undergraduate Colloquium

February 24, 2016

…about whether social norms or legal sanctions can help solve particular collective action problems like preserving environmental resources. The event was organized by Jonathan Anomaly, and featured four sessions, each…