Our colleague Professor Darrick Hamilton was recently featured in the Washington Post for his “Baby Bonds” proposal, wherein each American baby would receive between $500 and $50,000 at birth. These funds would be placed in a bond, untouchable by both family and child until the recipient’s 18th birthday. Funds could be used to pay for
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Emma Park Joins the New School’s History Faculty and the Heilbroner Center
Congratulations to Professor Emma Park, the most recent addition to the faculty of the New School History department and the newest collaborator with the Heilbroner Center! Professor Park’s research focuses on the history of infrastructure in East Africa. Specifically, “to understand the dynamics among capital, state formation, and the politics of belonging, she analyzes British
McKenzie Wark and Chiara Bottici Featured in New Book from the Museum of Capitalism
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
“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