Julia Ott, Associate Professor in the History of Capitalism and the co-director of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College at the New School, writes for Dissent Magazine about how the tax code’s preferential treatment of capital gains reflects the fact that both Democrat and
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Event – Clean In: How Hotel Workers Fought For a Union—And Won
Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and The Nation Magazine present the following film screening and debate: Clean In: How Hotel Workers Fought For a Union—And Won Wednesday, April 12 6pm University Center, Room L102 (63 Fifth Ave) What does a feminism for the 99% look like? Ask the hotel keepers who unionized a Doubletree hotel
Event – Macrofinance and the State: Rethinking the Politics of the Global Financial Crisis
Politics Speakers Series and Social Democracy Suppressed Series present: Adam Tooze Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University The recent financial crisis has given rise to a resurgence of interest in the tense relationship of capitalism and democracy. What this literature has tended to ignore is the fact that the financial
Event – Economic Crisis and Democracy in Brazil: A Talk with Former President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff
Economic Crisis and Democracy in Brazil: A Talk with Former President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, A 106 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 A talk with former president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff Mediation by Professor Nancy Fraser How did the
Event – Reform and Counter-Reform in American Health Care
Paul Starr Princeton University April 20, 6pm, University Center, Room L104 (63 Fifth Ave) The Republican effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act and to eliminate Medicaid’s status as an entitlement is not the first time conservatives have sought to stop, undo, or redirect reforms that have expanded health insurance and health care.
Event – Panic at the Pump: the Energy Crisis of the1970s and the Transformation of American Politics
Megan Jacobs, Columbia and Princeton University 4/13, 6pm Orozco Room – 66 W 12th St Room 712 In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Though the embargo would end the following year, it introduced a new kind of
Event – First Annual Graduate Student Fellows Symposium: What’s the matter with Capitalism?
The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies proudly presents its First Annual Graduate Fellows Symposium: What’s the matter with Capitalism? Friday, April 21 A symposium confronting contemporary capitalism, examining the ways in which the dynamics of accumulation, dispossession, and social reproduction shape – and are shaped by – the movements of people, substances and ideas. Discussions
Event – Social Democracy Suppressed Series
The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies proudly presents its Social Democracy Suppressed Series, with stimulating events on April and May. Join us! Panic at the Pump: the Energy Crisis of the 1970s and the Transformation of American Politics Meg Jacobs Columbia and Princeton University 4/13, 6pm Orozco Room – 66 W 12th St Room 712
Darrick Hamilton on Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
Heilbroner Affiliated Faculty and Associated Professor of Economics and Urban Policy at Milano and Nssr, Darrick Hamilton wrote with Mark Paul and William Darity a recent piece in Jacobin on how giving everyone a job is the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace. Read Why We Need a
Event – Theorizing Freedom, Radicalizing the Black Radical Tradition
March 28, 6pm, Wolff Conference Room (6 E 16th St, Room 1103) Neil Roberts Associate Professor, Africana Studies Program and Faculty Affiliate, Departments of Political Science & Religion, Williams College Neil Roberts’s colloquium talk draws upon core claims advanced in the author’s recent book Freedom as Marronage and it delves into the implications of the work’s argument for the