Congratulations to former Heilbroner student fellow Damien Parker and current New School economics professor Willi Semmler on their forthcoming publication from Springer Press. The team’s essay, “Asset Accumulation with Heterogeneous Households: The Rise of Wealth Disparity,” is being published in Springer’s new book, Inequality and Finance in Macrodynamics. Both the book and paper are available for
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October 6th and 7th: Global Histories of Capital Conference
Please join the New School and New York University for this year’s Global Histories of Capital Conference. This year’s theme is “Global Histories of Capitalism: New Perspectives on the Global South”, and features such speakers as the Heilbroner Center’s own Julia Ott, alongside others from New York University, The New School, and elsewhere. The keynote
Professor Darrick Hamilton Named One of Politico’s “50 People Blowing Up American Politics”
Congratulations are in order to Darrick Hamilton, professor of economics and urban policy at the New School and close friend of the Heilbroner Center, for being named one of Politico’s “50 People Blowing Up American Politics”. Hamilton and his colleague William Darity Jr. of Duke University were named number 36 on the list for their
3rd Annual Platform Cooperativism Conference: November 10th & 11th, 2017
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
Public Seminar: What Are the Costs of Libertarianism?
Claire Potter, Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and the New School for Public Engagement, discusses Nancy Maclean’s controversial new book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Professor Potter takes on the many criticisms of Maclean’s work, arguing that the book is more insightful
Series Launch: Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
Please join the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and the New School History Department in celebrating the launch of Columbia University Press’s series, the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. This series takes the full measure of the complexity and significance of capitalism, placing it at the center of the American experience. The event will
Slavery Today: Fighting Slave Labor in the 21st Century with Leonoardo Sakamoto
Please join the Heilbroner Center and Brazilian journalist Leonardo Sakamoto on Tuesday, September 19th at 5:00 PM in the Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall in the University Center, room UL105. Brazil has rescued over 50,000 people submitted to contemporary forms of slavery since 1995, when the government recognized before the United Nations that slavery
The Roots of Today’s Radical Right and the Crisis of American Democracy: A Conversation with Historian Nancy Maclean
The Robert Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies invites you to participate in a conversation with Nancy Maclean, author of the controversial new book “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”, and New School faculty members Julia Ott, Claire Potter, and Sanjay Reddy. This panel discussion will take place
Book Launch: Uneasy Street, by Rachel Sherman
The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and Sociology Department at The New School for Social Research invite you to join us to celebrate Rachel Sherman’s newest book: Monday, September 11, at 6pm – 63 Fifth Ave, Room 700 Rachel Sherman is Associate Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research. Uneasy Street is
Julia Ott on the new book The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by economist Robert Gordon
Associate Professor in the History of Capitalism and co-director of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School, Julia Ott wrote a recent piece in Public Books on how unfettered capitalism is incapable of addressing our most pressing problems, explaining that “only the foolhardy would look to private-sector innovation to save our