New Perspectives on the Political Economy of Development

The second edition of our conference took place on February 7–8, 2025, in Los Angeles. We extend our sincere gratitude to the Center for International Studies and the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California, and the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University for their invaluable support. We also thank our esteemed presenters, discussants, and keynote speaker: Arthur Spirling (Princeton University), Cecilia Mo (UC Berkeley), Christian Grose, (University of Southern California), Daniel Hidalgo (Massachussetts Institute of Technology),  Feyaad Allie (Harvard University), Horacio Larreguy (ITAM, Mexco), Lucia Motolinia (Washington University in St. Louis), Olga Gasparyan (Florida State University), Pia Raffler (Harvard University), Rikhil Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Salma Mousa (UCLA), Thad Dunning (UC Berkeley).

Additionally, we would like to acknowledge the active participation of Amna Salam (UCSD), Brian Palmer-Rubin (University of Southern California), Carol Wise (University of Southern California) Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma (Caltech), Julia Payson (UCLA), Kamya Yadav (UC Berkeley), Kyuwon Lee (University of Southern California), Jeff Jenkins (USC Price School of Public Policy), Jefferey Sellers (University of Southern California), Saori Katada (University of Southern California) and Syeda ShahBano Ijaz (Occidental College).