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,
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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
“Financialization on the Factory Farm”: Former Fellow Jan Dutkiewicz
Please join former Heilbroner Graduate Fellow Jan Dutkiewicz on January 26th at the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy and the Policy History Program at the University of California-Santa Cruz. A current New School PhD student and fellow at the International Center for the Humanities and Social Change, Dutkiewicz will speak on
Teresa Ghilarducci on the Precarity of American Retirees
Heilbroner Center colleague, SCEPA researcher, and NSSR Economics Professor Teresa Ghilarducci has been cited in a variety of news outlets over the past few months. Among other forces, Ghilarducci highlighted the strength of the GOP, arguing “The Republicans are correct that the current tax treatment of 401(k)s and IRAs breaks disproportionately help the well off,” says
Sociology Professor Rachel Sherman explains “why wealthy women are doomed to be miserable.”
New School for Social Research Sociology Professor and former Heilbroner Center Faculty Fellow Rachel Sherman recently wrote a piece for Quartz on why wealthy women are doomed to be miserable. Sherma’s article looks at women “in their late 30s or 40s, with children at home. Nearly all were married to men working in finance who brought home
Nancy Fraser: “In the aftermath of the financial crisis, America’s care crisis is getting worse.”
Our colleague Nancy Fraser recently sat down with Slate’s Haley Swenson to discuss the deepening crisis of care in American life. For Fraser, this crisis comes down to “the time crunch: the fact that households have to contribute many more hours to paid work to make ends meet and don’t have secure, well-paying jobs to the degree
NSSR and Parsons Faculty Awarded $225,000 Sawyer Seminar Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundations
Congratulations to our colleagues at NSSR and Parsons, who were recently awarded a $225,000 Sawyer Seminar Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation! Among other faculty members, Heilbroner Faculty Fellow Victoria Hattam will help design a seminar series on “Imaginative Mobilities” that will reframe the debate on the nature, purpose, and future of borders. “If we