INEQUALITY has emerged as a key political issue.
There are signs moreover that inequality harms health, diminishes political engagement, and ripples across social life throughout the world. During its 2019-2020 theme year, REVERBERATIONS OF INEQUALITY, the Andrea Mitchell Center will invite a range of speakers to delve into a growing body of scholarship suggesting that inequality is not simply a matter of skewed wealth. Rather, it is something that permeates our lives, its ripple effects shaping our bodies, minds, social networks, identities, life chances, and capacity to participate in shared institutions. And if some degree of equality is indeed a precondition for democratic participation, how might that conflict with the personal liberties that also underlie democracy? What is the correct balance to strike?
REVERBERATIONS OF INEQUALITY IS CO-SPONSORED BY
Penn Graduate School of Education / Penn School of Social Policy and Practice
Penn Law / The School of Arts and Sciences / Penn Economics
Penn Department of Political Science / Penn Sociology
Penn Populations Studies Center
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PODCAST
Speakers from REVERBERATIONS OF INEQUALITY are now featured in interviews on the Mitchell Center Podcast.
Click HERE to listen to Alexes Harris, Chloe Bird, Brishen Rogers, Joe Soss, David Daley, Bruce and Craig McEwen,
and more.
VIDEOS
​The Greatest Anti-Poverty Success Story I Know (Jason DeParle)
Human Rights in an Unequal World (Samuel Moyn)
A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions, The Punishment Continuum, and the Way Forward (Alexes Harris)
Inequality and Childhood Adversity: Toxic Stress and Its Epigenetic Effects (B. and C. McEwen)
Preying on the Poor: Criminal Justice as Revenue Racket (Joe Soss)
ESSAYS
Raj Chetty
Harvard University
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility
Kimberly Noble
NEED Lab, Teachers College, Columbia University
Jason DeParle
New York Times / Author, A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves
Leaving Leveriza: Migration and Its Impact on Global Poverty
Samuel Moyn
Yale University
Alexes Harris
University of Washington
Bruce McEwen Rockefeller University and
Craig McEwen Bowdoin College
Inequality and Early Childhood Adversity: Toxic Stress and Its
Epigenetic Effects
Joe Soss
University of Minnesota
A Debt of Care: Commercial Bail and the Gendered Logic of Criminal Justice Predation
David Daley
Activist & Author of Ratf**ked
Susan Dynarski
University of Michigan
For the Poor, the Graduation Gap Is Even Wider Than the Enrollment Gap
Bruce Link
UC-Riverside
Diversions: When Inequalities Research Becomes Complicit in the Reproduction of Health Inequities
OPENING CONFERENCE
The REVERBERATIONS OF INEQUALITY Opening Conference featured a KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Raj Chetty (Harvard) and three panels: HEALTH AND INEQUALITY with Chloe E. Bird (Rand Corporation), Elaine Hernandez (IU Bloomington), and Bruce Link (UC Riverside); BARRIERS TO MOBILITY with Sam Friedman (London School of Economics), Michael Kraus (Yale), and Karolyn Tyson (UNC Chapel Hill); and POLICY RESPONSES TO INEQUALITY with David Daley (Author of Ratf**ked), Susan Dynarski (University of Michigan), and Brishen Rogers (Georgetown Law).
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Conference videos are available HERE.
ABOUT
​​THE ANDREA MITCHELL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY at the University of Pennyslvania aims not just to promote, but to understand, democracy. Global in its outlook, multifaceted in its purposes, the Mitchell Center seeks to contribute to the ongoing quest for democratic values, ideas, and institutions throughout the world. In addition to hosting speakers from the fields of academia, journalism, politics, and public policy, the Mitchell Center supports undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research. It continues the legacy of the Penn Program for Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, which fostered interdisciplinary scholarship from 2007 to 2017.
REVERBERATIONS OF INEQUALITY is a year-long program of events organized at the Andrea Mitchell Center by the Reverberations of Inequality Planning Committee: Annette Lareau, Chair (GSE); Regina Austin (Law); Martha Farah (Psychology); Julia Lynch (Political Science); Eric Orts (Wharton); Jeffrey Green, Mitchell Center Director (Political Science); and Matthew Roth, Mitchell Center Assistant Director.
