#  Money and Politics: How Inequality and Wealth Concentration Are Shaping American Democracy 

 



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 **November 1, 2018** 

 04:15PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Nye ABC (T-520)**  



 

 



 

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 **A JAMES M. and CATHLEEN D. STONE PhD SCHOLARS SPECIAL EVENT**

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*What are the implications of inequality and wealth concentration for democratic representation, political polarization and public policy?*   
  
**A CONVERSATION WITH** **Danielle Allen**   
James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University.

 **Raymond Fisman**  
Slater Family Professor in Behavioral Economics, Boston University.

 **Jacob Hacker**  
Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University.

 **Alexander Hertel-Fernandez**  
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

 **Benjamin I. Page**  
Gordon Scott Fulcher Professor of Decision Making, Northwestern University.

 **Theda Skocpol**  
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University.

   
**FOR FURTHER READING**

 **[Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3095686).**  
By Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Raymond J. Fisman, and Francesco Trebbi. *NBER Working Paper No. w24451 (April 2018).*

 **[How the Koch Brothers Built the Most Powerful Rightwing Group You've Never Heard Of](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-rightwing-political-group)**  
By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Caroline Tervo, and Theda Skocpol.

 **[State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States — and the Nation.](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/state-capture-9780190870799?cc=us&lang=en&)**   
By Alex Hertel-Fernandez. Oxford University Press, forthcoming January 2019.  
[Read preface + introduction](https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ahertel/files/statecapture-prefaceintroduction.pdf)

 **[Billionaires and Stealth Politics](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo29143391.html)**  
By Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright, and Matthew J. Lacombe. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming December 2018.

 **[Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo27316263.html)**  
By Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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