Tasha Fairfield is an assistant professor in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and degrees in physics from Harvard University and Stanford University. Her research interests include democracy and inequality, business politics, policy formulation, and the political economy of development. Previously, she was a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Notre Dame's Kellogg In...