The Price of Democracy: How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do About It 

Date: 

Thursday, March 5, 2020, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall 

price democracy

Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine democracy, and what we can do about it.

Julia Cagé will discuss her book The Price of Democracy: How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do About It.

Speaker: Julia Cagé, Assistant Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Paris

Discussant: Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School

Chair: Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Sponsors: RCC; Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800; Harvard European Law Association;  Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.