Join ACS\, HLS Dems\, the Harvard Law & Po licy Review\, and Abundance for a lunch conversation with Prof. Edward Glae ser and Marc Dunkelman on his book\, Why Nothing Works. It recounts liberal s' midcentury fight to create legal guardrails\, like environmental review and procedural due process\, that are now blocking the infrastructure neede d to address climate change and the housing crisis. We'll discuss how we ca me to live in a vetocracy and what we can do about it.
Marc Dunkelman is a Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and P ublic Affairs and a former Democratic political operative who worked for me mbers of both the Senate and House.
Edward Glaeser is the chair of Ha rvard's economics department and the world's leading economist on cities an d urban economics.
RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/HLSDunkelman
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