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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 – 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

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

Julia Ott in Dissent: How Tax Policy Created the 1%

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

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