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Risk

From monitoring financial markets to assessing the impacts of climate change, risk plays a central role in social science at the individual and societal level. This content stream showcases research from UC Berkeley related to risk in its myriad forms.

February 4, 2021 by Chuck Kapelke

Video: Measuring Belief in Fake News Online

A lecture on why people believe fake news — and what can be done about it — by Joshua A. Tucker, Professor of Politics at New York University

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  • October 16, 2014 by Ryan Whitacre

    The Dragon of Debt

    An oral history focused on the U.S. national debt showcases interviews with top U.S. policy-makers from the past five decades.

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  • October 5, 2014 by Peter Dixon

    Credit and Class

    Economic classification tools such as credit scores directly contribute to stratification and class division, according to Berkeley sociologist Marion Fourcade.
     

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  • September 23, 2014 by Alan Cowen

    Population and Climate Change

    A team of UC Berkeley researchers warn that by 2100, climate change will cause rampant starvation and disease in the Sahel, a region in Africa, unless measures are taken to promote agricultural adaptation, family planning, and women’s empowerment.

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  • September 11, 2014 by Ryan Whitacre

    Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

    Migrant farmworkers are subject to social and economic inequalities that put them at greater risk of hardship and injury, according to a book by UC Berkeley’s Seth Holmes.

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    • Wellness
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  • August 3, 2014 by Ryan Whitacre

    Dangerous Knowledge

    How should GMOs, fracking, and other technologies be regulated? A UC Berkeley working group considers the options.

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  • July 31, 2014 by Erica Lee

    Reconstructing Disaster

    An interview with a UC Berkeley graduate student who is studying how politics shaped the reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

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