Professor Bill Ferguson to Give Talk at the University of Oxford’s Institute for New Economic Thinking

William (Bill) Ferguson ’75, Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics, will be hosted by the University of Oxford’s Institute for New Economic Thinking to present, “Social Identity, Institutional Entrepreneurship, and Identity Politics.” On June 12, as part of the INET Research Seminar, Ferguson will address how institutional entrepreneurs promote identity politics via understandings of social identity. 

Learn more about the seminar and register to attend in person or virtually at https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/social-identity-institutional-entrepreneurship-and-identity-politics-william-ferguson-grinnell-college.  
 

About Professor Bill Ferguson 

Bill Ferguson is the Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at Grinnell College, where he has taught since 1989. Ferguson is also an alumnus of Grinnell College. He is the author of The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy (Stanford University Press, 2013). Both books advance the proposition that successful development requires resolving underlying collective-action problems. The earlier book begins with micro-level foundations of political economy and ends with macro-level attention to knowledge, distributions of power, institutions, and growth. The latter book extends these macro themes by focusing on how distributions of power shape configurations of institutions and associated types of collective-action problems that condition prospects for achieving functional political and economic development. Continuing that theme, he is also a coauthor of Political Settlements and Development (Oxford University Press, 2022).