Mar 14
I’ll be giving a presentation on my “Large Forces” monograph at the research colloquium of the School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers-Newark, on March 27. Details here. The Powerpoint for the talk can be downloaded here.
The journal The Historian has just published a review of America’s First Great Depression. “Roberts’s book is more than an economic analysis of the 1830s and 1840s,” writes Dave Bush of Shasta College. “He persuasively argues that it was a great depression not solely for economic reasons but because of resulting social and political changes. . . . Roberts does a particularly fine job of placing this period of US history within a global perspective.” Read the review.
I’ll be giving two talks for the Australia and New Zealand School of Government in May. The title is Keeping government secrets in the information age. The first talk is in Wellington, New Zealand on May 16: details here. And the second talk is in Melbourne, Australia on May 21: details here.
The Economic Sociology and Political Economy blog discusses my book The End of Protest: “Roberts convincingly argues that in the last three decades, the two countries that led the free-market revolution—the US and Britain—have invented new strategies for dealing with unrest over free market policies.” Read more.
Dharavi slum, Mumbai. Image from WikiMedia.
I’ve just finished a review of Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World by Paul Collier. The review is posted on SSRN here. It will be published in Public Administration Review.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley spoke at the fifth roundtable for gubernatorial candidates hosted by the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service. Learn more about the roundtables.
Alasdair Roberts, Charlie Baker, Michael Caljouw, Greg Massing
Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker spoke at a roundtable hosted by the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service today.
Massachusetts Treasurer Steve Grossman spoke at the third roundtable for gubernatorial candidates hosted by the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service. Learn more about the roundtables.
America’s First Great Depression is reviewed in the latest issue of Pennsylvania History. Andrew Shankman of Rutgers University writes: “[A] highly successful and comprehensible book that puts the early takeoff years of American capitalism in their proper international context. It is a noteworthy achievement.” Read the review.
Don Berwick, a Democratic candidate in the 2014 Massachusetts governor’s race, spoke at a roundtable at the Rappaport Center today. Read a related story.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
