This talk is part of the Greenberg Distinguished Colloquium.

Event Time

February 24, 2022 | Thursday
7:00 am - 8:00 am Eastern Standard Time (EST)
February 24, 2022 | Thursday
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm China Standard Time (CST)

Participation Format

Registration is required to obtain a ZOOM Conference access link, which will be sent to your registration email or phone shortly. Please enter the ZOOM room 15 minutes before the starting time. When the room is full, latecomers will not be able to access the ZOOM conference.

Registration

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Ticket
Free

LANGUAGE

The language of the event will be English.

The Event

Today’s debates about economic policy often center on national prosperity. A stimulus bill will jumpstart the nation’s economy. Infrastructure investments will boost the gross domestic product. Tax cuts will spur economic growth. These debates echo a shift in economic thinking that occurred in 17th-century England, when members of a rising commercial class began publishing works on trade and finance in order to influence government policy. In arguing for their preferred policies, these writers generated a new economic discourse — one that emphasized national growth and prosperity and set the stage for today’s discipline of economics.

Emily Erikson, Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale and Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship, examines this revolution in economic thinking, focusing on the years between 1570 and 1720 in her latest book, Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought. On February 24, Professor Erikson will give a virtual talk discussing her book and the rise of modern economic thought.

The Speaker

Emily Erikson
Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University

Emily Erikson is the Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Yale Fox International Fellowship and associate professor of sociology and at the school of management (by courtesy). She conducts research in the fields of social networks, comparative historical sociology, organizations, theory, and economic sociology. Her books include Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (Columbia University Press) and Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company (Princeton University Press).

Erikson is chair of the American Sociological Association’s economic sociology section and serves on the executive council for the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, the editorial board for Social Science History and Sociological Theory, the executive council of the Social Science History Association, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate of Yale University. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Sociology Theory, The Journal of Economic History, and Social Science History, among others.

Greenberg Distinguished Colloquium

Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co. Inc. the Yale Center Beijing is pleased to host the Greenberg Distinguished Colloquium, which will convene thought leaders from all sectors who, in the spirit of Mr. Greenberg, play pivotal roles in building bridges among China, the U.S., and the rest of the world.

Mr. Greenberg has been a member of Yale Center Beijing’s Executive Council and retired as the Chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG). In 2018, he was awarded the China Reform Friendship Medal.