# About & CV — Green (Sirun) Wang

I am an undergraduate at UC Berkeley studying political economy and applied mathematics. I study how institutions organize collective production and shape how people understand the sources of its success.

My current work explores two related questions: how institutions develop productive capacity, and how they shape people's interpretations of that capacity. I am especially interested in how people attribute contributions, judge whether a leader or organization is replaceable, and form beliefs about alternatives they cannot directly observe. I am learning to use formal models to make these mechanisms precise, while taking historical settings and the limits of each representation seriously. How institutions reshape people's standards of value remains a longer-term question.

## Education
University of California, Berkeley
Undergraduate, studying Political Economy and Applied Mathematics.

## Research interests
Political economy of institutions; Productive and interpretive capacity; Belief formation and formal theory

## Academic training
My coursework includes quantitative microeconomics, probability, and mathematics, alongside political economy, world history, and Chinese literary history. This fall, I am taking courses in formal models of political science and the economic institutions of capitalism, with course papers planned in both.

### In progress — Fall 2026
- POLSCI 232B: Formal Models of Political Science (Fall 2026; in progress)
- PHDBA 279PD: The Economic Institutions of Capitalism in Historical Perspective (Fall 2026; in progress)
- ECON 141: Econometrics (Quantitative) (Fall 2026; in progress)
- MATH 104: Introduction to Analysis (Fall 2026; in progress)

### Selected completed coursework
- ECON 101A: Microeconomics (Quantitative) (Spring 2026; completed)
- STAT 134: Concepts of Probability (Summer 2026; completed)
- MATH 53: Multivariable Calculus (Fall 2025; completed)
- MATH 55: Discrete Mathematics (Summer 2026; completed)
- MATH 54: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (Summer 2026; completed)
- POLECON 100: Classical Theories of Political Economy (Spring 2026; completed)
- CHINESE 230: Seminar in Chinese Literary History (Spring 2026; completed)
- GLOBAL 45: Survey of World History (Spring 2026; completed)
- SOCIOL 127: Development and Globalization (Spring 2026; completed)

## Course papers in progress
- [Formal theory](/research/formal-theory/index.md) — PhD-level course paper, Fall 2026. A planned PhD-level course paper in formal theory. The topic and mentor have not yet been determined. Topic and mentor not yet determined. Coming soon; paper not yet started and no abstract or manuscript available.
- [Economic institutions of capitalism](/research/capitalism-institutions/index.md) — PhD-level course paper, Fall 2026. A planned PhD-level course paper on the economic institutions of capitalism. The topic and mentor have not yet been determined. Topic and mentor not yet determined. Coming soon; paper not yet started and no abstract or manuscript available.

## Previous course research
- [The 1991 Neoliberal Shift in Bangladesh](/research/bangladesh-1991/index.md) — Course research, Spring 2026. A course research project examining the drivers of Bangladesh’s transition toward market-oriented policy and the role of party-state institutions. Project summary only; manuscript not included in this edition.
- [Chinese–Spanish Trade in Manila, 1589–1603](/research/manila-trade/index.md) — Course research, Spring 2026. An economic-history review of Chinese–Spanish maritime trade in Manila, approaching early-modern exchange in Asia from non-Eurocentric perspectives. Project summary only; manuscript not included in this edition.

## Contact
greenw@berkeley.edu

[Short CV PDF](/cv.pdf)

Content updated: 2026-09-26.