April 10, 2024

Events

Profit and Power

On April 23, 2024, join us for a discussion on profits, prices, and the green energy transition, on the occasion of Brett Christophers’s new book The Price Is Wrong, featuring:

  • BRETT CHRISTOPHERS, professor at Uppsala University and author of The Price Is Wrong and Our Lives In Their Portfolios.
  • MELANIE BRUSSELER, senior researcher at Common Wealth
  • KYLE CHAN, postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University
  • Moderated by ROBINSON MEYER, founder and executive editor of Heatmap

Register here.


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