Dr. Dan Hirschman

Biography

Dan Hirschman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. His research focuses on the role of experts, expertise, and numbers in political and economic life. He engages primarily with historical methods and his work is collaborative, involving scholars from different fields employing quantitative, interview, and ethnographic methods. Hirschman is currently completing a book tentatively titled 'Unequal Knowledge: Stylized Facts of Inequality,' which examines the history of the gender wage gap and racial wealth gap, along with the rise of the '1%' to understand the relationship between inequality and the politics of gender, race, and class in the United States. He has also begun a new project that investigates the costs of climate change, where he collaborates with experts from various disciplines to predict the costs associated with mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and how these predictions influence climate change politics.

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