by Trebor Scholz read original post at publicseminar If you’ve heard about companies like Airbnb, Zipcar, Skype, Uber, Getaround, and Lyft, and you know a bit about crypto-currencies, you get the picture. The “sharing economy” is just as exhilarating and vexing as the Web 2.0 meme was nine years ago. I am all there with Arun Sundararajan, professor at Stern School of Business
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Guy Standing: A Precariat Charter
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 80 Fifth Ave., room 529, New York, NY 10011 Guy Standing’s immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. A Precariat Charter discusses how rights – political, civil, social and economic – have been denied to the
Edward Baptist: The Half Has Never Been Told
Edward Baptist – The Half Has Never Been Told: U.S. Slavery and Nineteenth Century Capitalism Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 80 Fifth Avenue, 802 New York, NY 10003 The New School’s History Department presents Edward E. Baptist. Baptist teaches at Cornell University, where he is an associate professor of history and
Julia Ott on Podcast: “Who Makes Cents”
New School Professor Julia Ott was a recent guest on the podcast, “Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast.” Hosted by David Stein and Betsy Beasley, and with support from programs at the University of Southern California and Yale University, the podcast can be heard online here.
Chiara Bottici’s Book Published: “Imaginal Politics”
Columbia University Press has recently published New School Professor Chiara Bottici’s book, “Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary.” Part of the New Directions in Critical Theory Series, the book, which can be found here, offers “a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal and its nexus with the political” by bringing “fresh perspective to the formation of political
Julia Ott Book Discussion: Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”
New School Professor Julia recently contributed to a book conversation hosted by the Institute for Public Knowledge entitled, “A Discussion with Thomas Piketty about Capital in the 21st Century.” Taking place at NYU’s Courant Institute and including Thomas Piketty, David Stasavage, and Frédéric Viguier, the discussion is now available to view online here.
Janet Roitman’s Book Published: “Anti-Crisis”
Duke University Press has recently published New School Professor Janet Roitman’s book, “Anti-Crisis.” The book, which can be found here, “steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just why we declare so many crises but also what sort of analytical work the concept of crisis enables,” using “responses to the so-called subprime mortgage
Victoria Hattam’s Book Published: “Political Creativity”
University of Pennsylvania Press has recently published New School Professor Victoria Hattam’s book, “Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional Order and Change.” Edited with Gerald Berk and Dennis C. Galvan, the book, which can be found here, “intervenes in the lively debate currently underway in the social sciences on institutional change” and shows “how institutions inevitably combine order and
Cinzia Arruzza’s Book Published: “Dangerous Liaisons”
Merlin Press has recently published New School Professor Cinzia Arruzza’s book, “Dangerous Liaisons: The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism.” Part of the Resistance Books Series, the book, which can be found here, provides “an accessible introduction to the relationship between the workers’ movement and the women’s movement” though an investigation of “the questions ‘Why does
Will Milberg’s Book Published: “Outsourcing Economics”
Cambridge University Press has recently published New School Professor and New School for Social Research Dean Will Milberg’s book, “Outsourcing Economics: Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development.” Coauthored with Deborah Winkler, the book, which can be found here, proposes “an institutional theory of trade and development” derived from their findings that “offshoring reduces employment and raises income