According to Raghuram Rajan, when we think about the forces at play in our economy, we tend to get stuck in the ongoing, cyclical, and often fierce push-pull of market and state, while a third pillar—community—is ignored, to our peril. To Rajan, a distinguished professor of finance at the University of Chicago, it is our habitual funneling of economic and political power into a few urban centers—leaving other communities disadvantaged and disempowered—that has sown the seeds not only for the economic decline of non-urban America, but also for populist backlash. “All economics is actually socioeconomics,” says Rajan, who suggests it is time to re-think the relationship between market, state, and the communities we may have forgotten along the way.

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This program is generously underwritten by Anita and Prabhakant Sinha.

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