We are pleased to announce the launch a new faculty-driven interdisciplinary workshop series to explore the global institutional stability with input from invited speakers who study various dimensions of institutional failure and success. Through these conversations, we hope to better understand how and in what ways, institutions shape our society and future prosperity.

Abstract: Human life is structured by institutions – the rules that create patterns of incentives and expectations which condition how we behave and coordinate with others. Institutions can create the conditions for prosperity and human flourishing, providing individual freedoms, economic opportunity and the capacity for innovation. As history has long shown, they are not guaranteed to do so, but why?