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For California’s fast-food workers, a major minimum wage increase brings an immediate boon

When California raised the minimum wage for workers at the largest fast-food chains to $20 in April, some firms, franchisors, and franchisees claimed it could result in higher prices, fewer workers, ...
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DigHum2025 • AI and Democracy with Lawrence Lessig and Moshe Y. Vardi • Keynotes

September 8, 2025, Video: "Video Recording • Digital Humanism Conference 2025 Hosted by Claudia Zettel Editor-in-Chief of Futurezone." ...
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International & Global Affairs Concentration

The International and Global Affairs (IGA) concentration trains the next generation of policymakers and leaders like you to tackle the complex issues of a globalizing world. As an IGA concentrator, ...
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GDP as a Measure of Economic Well-Being

The sense that recent technological advances have yielded considerable benefits for everyday life, as well as disappointment over measured productivity and output growth in recent years, have spurred ...
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The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for the Recent Evolution of the American Economy - Lawrence Summers

May 2020, Paper, "Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the ...
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Why is Corporate Virtue in the Eye of The Beholder? The Case of ESG Ratings

November 2019, Paper, "Despite the rising use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings in financial markets, there is substantial disagreement across rating agencies regarding what ...
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Pathways to Materiality: How Sustainability Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors

2019, Paper, "As sustainability issues, also labelled environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, become financially material, companies, investors and regulators are designing strategies and ...
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Oligarchy in the open: What happens now as the U.S. is forced to confront its plutocracy problem?

Professors Archon Fung of HKS and Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School say Trump’s brazen embrace of billionaire ruling partners could be an inflection point in America’s long slide toward rule by ...
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Are we headed for a constitutional crisis? Kennedy School scholars on the Trump administration and the rule of law

Experts see an unprecedented challenge to the rule of law and to constitutional norms and ponder how the courts and other institutions will respond. The Trump administration’s first month included a ...
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Making a movement: The history and future of human rights

“THE CREATION OF SUCH A DOCUMENT— its mere existence—must count among the greatest achievements in human history.” That is how Mathias Risse, the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global ...
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Autocracy and patriarchy are surging worldwide—but women are pushing back

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine is unfolding into the autocrat’s most aggressive move to extend his reach. Beyond Putin’s Russia, authoritarian regimes are on the rise globally—a ...
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The history of the Electoral College and our national conversation about race

As the United States moves toward the 2020 presidential election, the country’s democratic institutions are becoming prominent once again in the national conversation. How we vote, and how fair and ...