Former Heilbroner Fellow McKenzie Wark and New School Philosophy’s Professor Chiara Bottici were recently featured in a new publication from the Museum of Capitalism, recently opened in Oakland, California. Purchase the book here. The new collection “offers a glimpse into its controversial project of untimely memorialization. Published contemporaneously with the opening of Museum of Capitalism in
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“Can monetary policy survive policy model mis-specification?” by Mark Setterfield
Congratulations to Faculty Fellow Professor Mark Setterfield on his forthcoming article, “Can monetary policy survive policy model mis-specification? Model uncertainty and the perils of ‘policy model complacency’” from Metroeconomica. An abstract of the essay can be found below. Read the whole article here. “The question addressed in this paper is: can monetary policy succeed in stabilizing
What Cass Sunstein Gets Wrong About Marxism, Sanders, and American Politics
Heightening the Contradictions and Missing the Point The following is an excerpt from Jan Dutkiewicz and Andrew Norris’s essay, “What Cass Sunstein Gets Wrong About Marxism, Sanders, and American Politics: Heightening the Contradictions and Mising The Point.” A full version can be found on Public Seminar. Dutkiewicz is a former Heilbroner Center Graduate Fellow. “More
Debt Comes For Us All
Students protest against the new GOP tax bill The following is excerpted from Amy Osika’s essay, “Debt Comes For Us All: Students protest against the new GOP tax bill,” available in full from Public Seminar. “A colleague and I walk over to a group of policemen, asking them what they think about the new tax
Sex Work and the Capitalist Patriarchy
Legalization is not a substitute for abolishment The following is an excerpt from Amy Brozovich’s essay, “Sex Work and the Capitalist Patriarchy: Legalization is not a substitute for abolishment,” available in full on Public Seminar. “To understand prostitution, its racist character must be acknowledged. Women who were and continue to be forced into prostitution
Confronting Financialization Demands a Radical Cultural Politics
Excerpted from Max Haiven’s 2014 book, Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life. Read a longer excerpt on Public Seminar. “In fact, the economic and social precariousness that neoliberal financialization causes, and on which it relies, may be a perverse and skewed reflection of a much deeper, ontological field of possibility. As Randy Martin explains,
The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization
Poetry, Art, and the New Spirit of Capitalism Vince Carducci, Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Detroit’s College of Creative Studies, takes on Jasper Berne’s new book The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization. Read the full article from Public Seminar. This review was originally published in the Motown Review of Art.
“American Capitalism – New Histories” from Columbia University Press
Heilbroner Center co-director Julia Ott was recently published in a new volume from Columbia University Press’s series on the history of U.S. capitalism. The book — American Capitalism: New Histories — features Professor Ott’s article “What Was the Great Bull Market? Value, Valuation, and Financial History.” The volume was edited by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, and features essays
JOB OPENING: Heilbroner Fellowship in Capitalism Studies, Applications Due February 15th, 2018
The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School for Social Research invites applications for the Heilbroner Fellowship in Capitalism Studies, to be held for one or both semesters of the 2018-2019 academic year. Rank is open, but we seek a scholar who will contribute significantly to the flourishing activities
Professors Julia Ott and Nancy Fraser Feature in Dissent’s 2017 Roundup
Congratulations to Heilbroner Center co-director Julia Ott and affiliated faculty member Nancy Fraser for topping Dissent Magazine’s most-read articles of 2017. Professor Fraser topped the list with her essay, “The End of Progressive Neoliberalism.” Her article “Against Progressive Neoliberalism, A New Progressive Populism” also made Dissent’s Top 20. Professor Ott, who also sits on Dissent’s editorial board, came