Business, Government & the International Economy

- January 2025
- Case
Barilla: Feeding the Future

By: Sophus A. Reinert, Forest L. Reinhardt, Dante Roscini and Carlota Moniz
- January 2025
- Case
Barilla: Feeding the Future

By: Sophus A. Reinert, Forest L. Reinhardt, Dante Roscini and Carlota Moniz
- January 2025
- Case
Liz Truss and the Thatcher Legacy: Markets and Fiscal Dominance in the United Kingdom

By: Rafael Di Tella, Pablo Ottonello and David Allen
- January 2025
- Case
Liz Truss and the Thatcher Legacy: Markets and Fiscal Dominance in the United Kingdom

By: Rafael Di Tella, Pablo Ottonello and David Allen
- 2024
- Working Paper
Fiscal Shortfalls, Financialization, and the Private Sector

By: Jaya Y. Wen, Haichao Fan, Guanchun Liu and Huanhuan Wang
- 2024
- Working Paper
Fiscal Shortfalls, Financialization, and the Private Sector

By: Jaya Y. Wen, Haichao Fan, Guanchun Liu and Huanhuan Wang

About the Unit

The BGIE Unit conducts research on, and teaches about, the economic, political, social, and legal environment in which business operates. The Unit includes scholars trained in economics, political science, and history; in its work, it draws on perspectives from all three of these disciplines.

The following demonstrates one way of classifying the approaches the Unit takes to learning and teaching.

The Unit examines the “rules” and policies established by government and other non-business institutions that affect business in the United States.
The Unit turns to history to understand the origins of today’s business environment as well as some of the alternatives that have emerged from time to time.
The Unit examines other countries’ business environments and their historical development.
The BGIE group is deeply interested in the impact of globalization and the way rules are emerging to govern international economic transactions as globalization proceeds.