<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong>Adrienne Brown, PhD (U. of Chicago)</strong> shares her research on the intersection of perception and valuation, particularly the practice of “redlining,” and demonstrates how the equation of blackness with financial risk undergirded the creation of mid-century redlining maps, which steered wealth and mobility out of black neighborhoods and decimated urban areas.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong>Jason Jackson, PhD (MIT)</strong> explores the rise of the “sharing” economy, where platform firms represent a new mode of capitalist organization characterized by radically reformed employer-employee relations and novel techniques of market governance by algorithms, raising new questions about the implications for the distribution of power and wealth in the global economy.</p>