Business, Government & the International Economy
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- January 2023
- Case
Singapore: 'From Third World to First'
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- January 2023
- Article
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco TabelliniBetween 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination. This paper shows that the Great Migration and support for civil rights are causally linked. Predicting Black inflows with a shift-share instrument, we find that the Great Migration raised support for the Democratic Party, increased Congress members' propensity to promote civil rights legislation, and encouraged pro-civil rights activism outside the U.S. South. We provide different pieces of evidence that support for civil rights was not confined to the Black electorate, but was also shared by segments of the white population.
- January 2023
- Article
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco TabelliniBetween 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination. This paper shows that the Great Migration and support...
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About the Unit
The BGIE Unit conducts research on, and teaches about, the economic, political, social, and legal environment in which business operates. The Unit includes scholars trained in economics, political science, and history; in its work, it draws on perspectives from all three of these disciplines.
The following demonstrates one way of classifying the approaches the Unit takes to learning and teaching.
- The Unit examines the “rules” and policies established by government and other non-business institutions that affect business in the United States.
- The Unit turns to history to understand the origins of today’s business environment as well as some of the alternatives that have emerged from time to time.
- The Unit examines other countries’ business environments and their historical development.
- The BGIE group is deeply interested in the impact of globalization and the way rules are emerging to govern international economic transactions as globalization proceeds.
Recent Publications
Labor Unions in the United States
- January 2023 |
- Technical Note |
- Faculty Research
Singapore: 'From Third World to First'
- January 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
The Shuanghui-Smithfield Acquisition (A) and (B)
- January 2023 |
- Teaching Note |
- Faculty Research
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
- January 2023 |
- Article |
- Review of Economic Studies
Comviva: Exploring New Frontiers (A) and (B)
- December 2022 |
- Teaching Note |
- Faculty Research
Applegate Farms
- December 2022 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Harvard Business Publishing
Seminars & Conferences
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