Projects

Causes and Consequences of Wealth Inequality

Rising wealth inequality is a reality in a great many countries today. In this environment, many people are asking what factors have driven this phenomenon and whether rising wealth inequality is undermining democracy. In this project, NYU scholars from a broad

David Stasavage

Work: The Hard Problem

The jobs created by the industrial revolution did at least four important things. One, of course, was producing goods. A second was providing employees (and shareholders) income. A third was creating new forms of community. And the fourth was giving

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Public Safety Lab

With the support of the Global Institute of Advanced Study, the Public Safety Lab has been launched to apply the tools of data science and social science to the project of producing better public safety outcomes. For example, many relatively

Anna Harvey

Rethinking Global Infrastructure Finance

Observers of the global economy have noted that investment in infrastructure—from airports in the U.S. to power plants in Nigeria—could help achieve sustainable growth throughout the world and address challenges in both advanced and emerging economies by raising productivity, prospective

Ingo Walter

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century

This Project revisits the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in the context of a world that has changed dramatically in the 65 years or so since it was passed.

Jeremy Waldron

Space, Time and Consciousness

Led by David Chalmers, this project explores the relationships between space, time , and consciousness.

David Chalmers

The Future of Classical Music

Led by Michael Beckerman, Paul Boghossian, and Kit Fine, this project consists of a working group of scholars, musicians, and arts administration professionals meeting to study the future of classical music, a future that these days is routinely said to

Michael Beckerman

Canonical Neural Computation

Led by Anthony Movshon, this project studies neural computations that appear in many different species and brain regions, suggesting that a set of common algorithms forms a basic repertoire that is used in many different brains. Many of these computations

Anthony Movshon

Social Media and Political Participation – Global

Led by Joshua Tucker, this project explores the role of social media in political participation.

Joshua A. Tucker

International Legal Orders and Their Histories

Led by Benedict Kingsbury, this project brings together the serious historical study of forms of order beyond a single state with work on the current construction, adaptation or displacement of international legal orders.

Benedict Kingsbury

Aesthetic Experience and the Brain

Led by Gabrielle Starr and David Poeppel, this project seeks to understand the psychological and neural bases of aesthetic experience.

David Poeppel

Critical Collaboration

Led by Pato Hebert, the Critical Collaboration Working Group will investigate the relationship between creativity and social change.

Pato Hebert

Global Institute for Dance and Music: Translucent Borders

Led by Andy Teirstein, a three-year exploration of intercultural dialogue, practice and exchange focusing on the role of dance and music at borders (geographic, cultural, socio-political, economic).

Andy Teirstein

Global Institute of Public Health Research Affinity Group Network

NYU’s Global Institute of Public Health (GIPH), launched in 2012, is an innovative model for collaborative research. With over 110 faculty from 13 NYU schools and departments, it represents the wide range of methodologies and skillsets needed to address complex

Bernadette Boden-Albala

An International Network on Expectational Coordination

This project focuses on the critique of the “rationality of expectations hypothesis” (REH). The REH assumes that economic agents have an unbiased, statistically correct, view of the future. This critique applies to many areas of analysis, notably the study of

Jess Benhabib