New School Professors Banu Bargu (Politics) and Chiara Bottici (Philosophy) recently teamed up to co-edit a collection of essays inspired by the work of the legendary Nancy Fraser. Below, please find an excerpt from the book. To read the whole passage, please visit Public Seminar. To purchase the book, please visit Springer Press. “Since the
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Reductio ad Absurdum: Zero-Hours Contracts, Bogus ‘Self-Employment’, and Welfare ‘Conditionality’ in the UK
As Christian Garland recently wrote, “Neoliberalism remains the dominant economic orthodoxy in the US and UK, as well as in many other places following the Great Recession, but it is, in large part, reaching its own critical limits, with political resistance being just part of these. The nature of this four-decades-long project is heavy with
Eli Cook: Thaler’s Nobel Does Not Challenge Mainstream Economics
Friend of the Center Eli Cook has recently published a new piece on Public Seminar, entitled: “Thaler’s Nobel Does Not Challenge Mainstream Economic: Prizing nudges over shoves misjudges what we need right now.” Cook, who recently delivered a talk at the Heilbroner Center on speculation and finance, argued that the recent win of economist to
Co-Director Julia Ott Published in Washington Post; “It’s not Wall Street that needs to be unleashed – it’s government.”
Professor Julia Ott, co-director of the Heilbroner Center, was recently published in the Washington Post, arguing that “private-sector finance — Wall Street — has historically played a relatively minor role in funding innovation compared with the public sector and with internal reinvestment by large corporations….Democrats need to ignore [such] tiresome canards and rededicate themselves to
December 7th: Financialization Between Past and Future
Coming up on Thursday December 7th, 2017, the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies will host a panel discussion on the past, present, and future of finance capitalism and the tools of financial speculation. The event, Financialization Between Past and Future, will feature three speakers: Professor Julia Ott (The New School — Historical Studies), Professor Chiara Bottici (The New
November 10th and 11th: The People’s Platform: Platform Co-Ops for Global Challenges
Pleas join us this November 10th and 11th for the 3rd Annual Platform Cooperativism conference! Society’s sudden leap towards digital technologies and electronic platforms signals now, more than ever, the possibility for a truly democratic control over our economic and social worlds. In this spirit, the first Platform Cooperativism conference was held at the New
“Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia”, 11/13/2017
Please join the Heilbroner Center and the New School Historical Studies department in welcoming Professor Steve Stoll (Fordham University) for a discussion of his newest book, Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia, this upcoming November 13th, 2017, in the Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, Room N101, at 6:00 PM. Professor Stoll’s book has been described as “a
Graduate Fellow Ibrahim Shikaki: The Political Economy of Prolonged Occupation in Palestine
Over the summer, Heilbroner Center graduate fellow Ibrahim Shikaki was asked to write a report on the long term effects of occupation on the political economy of Palestine by the Association of International Development Agencies in Palestine. The forthcoming report discusses the structural transformation of the economy, and sheds light on conflict from an International Humanitarian
Professor Duncan Foley Wins Guggenheim Prize in Economics
Congratulations are in order to New School for Social Research Economics professor Duncan Foley, who was recently awarded the 2017 Guggenheim Prize in Economics. According to Research Matters, Professor Foley’s award comes in response to “his numerous papers on topics as diverse as the economics of climate change, financialization and the information economy, and the
Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis: “GOP Tax Plan Ignores Regressive Retirement Tax Breaks”
The New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) has released new analysis of retirement savings in the United States and their relationship to the proposed 2017 GOP tax plan. According to SCEPA, the current system of retirement tax breaks are “are highly regressive, giving 66% of the benefits to those in the top