Researchers at a new teaching and research center at University of California at Berkeley are aiming to address big social challenges through interdisciplinary work, university officials announced.

Political scientists, economists, sociologists and historians among others are forming the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative to research the intersection of markets and government — a branch of research often referred to as political economy.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.