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EUI Max Weber Lecture on Globalization & Its Political Consequences
May 20, 2019

I lectured on the evolution of globalization and its political consequences as part of the Max Weber Lecture Series at the European University Institute on May 15, 2019. A video of the lecture can be found…

National Academy of Sciences Membership
May 2, 2019

I am deeply honored to have been elected into the National Academy of Sciences on April 30, 2019. 

 

 

More information about the election can be found on the…

Globalisation, populism and the decline of the welfare state (Survival)
Feb. 19, 2019
The costs imposed on individuals by globalisation are driving support for extreme political movements, says Helen Milner. Neither protectionism nor the traditional welfare state offer ideal solutions.
Globalization, Populism and the Decline of the West
Feb. 19, 2019

In recent work, I explore whether rising inequality, financial crises, deflationary pressures, deindustrialization, competition from developing countries, and rapid technological change may be undoing the compromise of embedded liberalism that sustained globalization for decades. If so, what can be done to stop this trend?