Emerging Political Economies Network

The EPE Network is committed to thinking about the challenging issues for economic development in the next 30 years. The neoliberal project of the past 40 years has failed in one of its most basic tasks: to create a fair, just, and sustainable economy for people in the Global North and the Global South.

But what such an economy should look like is less clear. We have organized our conference around a set of challenges facing societies where we will explore this theme. One of the unique advantages of the EPE Network is the representation of numerous viewpoints.

The EPE Network has scholars from many disciplines, mostly economics, but also political science, sociology, history, and philosophy who are working on many substantive topics focused on different societies around the world. This conference was put together by inviting suggestions for panels from our EPE Network Centers and adding a few guests to fill out issues we thought were important to cover. We have worked to construct panels with differing viewpoints to stimulate wide ranging discussions.

This conference was put together by inviting suggestions for panels from our EPE Network Centers and adding a few guests to fill out issues we thought were important to cover. We have worked to construct panels with differing viewpoints to stimulate wide ranging discussions which we hope will introduce new ways of thinking. We are excited to have our Centers get together to debate and discuss many of the important topics over the course of the event.

Thank you to our Funders: Global Fund for a New Economy, Ford Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Omidyar Network and Open Society Foundations