Economics

Beyond Wall Street: A Field Guide for Students Studying Economics

The Field Guide is one of CCI’s most popular signature programs, designed to help students imagine the many possibilities open to them with an Economics major. It brings together a panel of alumni from a range of sectors and fields to share their stories—highlighting the variety of paths they’ve taken and the lessons they’ve learned along the way.

The second Trump administration is implementing trade policies that have major impacts on international relations, supply chains, and more. This interdisciplinary symposium brings together leading scholars to assess how these policies are reshaping geopolitics and the global economy.

Speakers

Inu Manak, Fellow for trade policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Robert Staiger, Loren M. Berry Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Why is our food system broken? Austin Frerick describes the rise to power of 7 “food titans”, whose exploitation of consumers, farmers and workers has contributed to high prices and poor conditions for farmers and workers. Frerick is a Yale University agricultural policy fellow and the author of Barons: Money, Power and the Corruption of Food Industry, chosen as a Kirkus Review Best Indie Book of 2024.

David K. Smith ’42 Lecture @RAJ 4:30 – 5:45 PM

“From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty First Century.”

By William A. Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Duke University, and A. Kirsten Mullen, Folklorist, Writer and Arts Consultant/Independent Scholar.

Peter Lovell Memorial Lecture in Architecture and Design:

Kevin Chu, Executive Director of Vermont Futures Project gives a lecture on “Housing and the Economic Health of Vermont”. The lecture will be followed by a Panel Discussion and Q&A.

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