1. Antitrust Policy Reform in the Times of Inflation and Chicago School of Law and Economics • Melike Arslan, Northwestern University.

2. From Free Trade to Fair Trade: How the U.S. Political Elite Talked about Trade with China • Zhifan Luo, University at Albany.

3. The Market Failure Paradox: Political Contention in the U.S. Welfare State • Emily Parker, Rutgers University.

4. Between Crisis and Routine: The Reemergence of Bureaucrats as Politics of Exception in An Age of Chinese Populism (1958-1979) • Yingyao Wang, University of Virginia.