Dear RSF:

Please join us on Wednesday, March 20, at 11:00 in the library, for a presentation by Peter Hall entitled “The Origins of Our Discontents: Putting Populism in Perspective.”

Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.  He is also an Associate of the CIFAR Program on Successful Societies at Harvard, which he co-directed for fifteen years.  Hall is the editor of The Politics of Representation in the Global Age (with W. Jacoby, J. Levy and S. Meunier), Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era and Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health (with Michèle Lamont), Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make (with P. Culpepper and B. Palier), Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (with David Soskice),The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations, Developments in French Politics I and II (with A. Guyomarch and H. Machin), European Labor in the 1980s and author of Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France (1986) as well as more than a hundred articles on European politics, policy making, and comparative political economy.

During his time at the Foundation, Hall is working on a project that traces the movement of “growth regimes.”  Although employment rates, especially for working-age men, are near historic lows, growth remains stagnant for well-paying jobs.  Thus political pressure is high to change the direction of the American economy and alter current policies.  Hall is investigating historical political economies, from 1950 onward, that fostered more positive results for the general populace. 

Peter Hall received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.