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
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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
Event – General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century
Please join Professor McKenzie Wark for an end-of-semester drink to celebrate the publication of his new book from Verso, General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century, a guide to the thinkers and ideas that will shape the future. Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Wolff Conference Room, 6 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003,
Event – Going out of the Recession?
The History Department Presents: Going out of the Great Recession? Contrast between the United States and Europe: Proposed Work from Economic History, 1960-2016 Professor Carles Manera Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) May 2nd, 4-6pm 80 Fifth Ave, Room 529
Event – Economics for the 21st Century: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Economics for the 21st Century: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Monday, May 1, 2017 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm University Center, Room 304 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Join Kate Raworth for a discussion of her new book Doughnut Economics. As to how as citizens around the world vociferously reject the economic ideals
Event – Dissent Spring Issue Launch: Capitalism Today
Dissent Spring Issue Launch: Capitalism Today Monday, May 22, 2017 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, University Center, UL105 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 Almost a decade since the financial crisis, economic debate remains trapped by stale assumptions that led to the calamity. Liberals don’t have a
Event – The Bonds of Kinship: Intergenerational Debt and Familial Wealth in the Neoliberal Era
Social Democracy Suppressed Series presents: The Bonds of Kinship: Intergenerational Debt and Familial Wealth in the Neoliberal Era Melinda Cooper, University of Sidney Thursday, April 27, 6pm, at 79 Fifth Ave Room 1618 “We want an economy where our debts are to our friends, families, and communities – and not to the 1%,”declares the Strike
Rachel Sherman in Items: What It Means to Be Entitled
Rachel Sherman, Associate Professor of Sociology, HCCS Faculty Fellow & Director of Graduate Studies at Sociology Department at The New School for Social Research, based on research among New Yorkers in the “1 percent”, uncovers the ways they understand and legitimize their wealth, in part through distinguishing their situation from other people of means who may