From Finance to Climate: “Economistic Fallacies,” “Organized Irresponsibility,” and “Tragic Individualization” En Route to Democratic Crisis

In her lecture series as this year’s MPIfG Scholar in Residence, Bașak Kuș from Wesleyan University will share insights into how governments conceptualize and mitigate risk, and the significant role that economists and economistic reasoning play in shaping these processes – essential analysis for understanding the foundations of the crises that mark our times, from finance to climate, ultimately extending to the crisis of democracy.