Dissent’s Spring 2021 issue, Global Economic Disorder, is out now. On Wednesday, April 14 at 7 p.m. ET, Dissent board member and special section co-editor Julia Ott will moderate a discussion with contributors Tim Barker, Penelope Kyritsis, Walden Bello, and Anakwa Dwamena. In the issue, Tim Barker examines global secular stagnation; Penelope Kyritsis and Genevieve LeBaron investigate textile workers’ widespread hunger; Walden Bello charts
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3/8 | ONLINE | Abolitionist Economics: Moving Beyond Carceral Capitalism
Monday, March 8, 2021 6 PM EST | Online This event will gather scholars and activists to share their knowledge and wisdom about the political economy of the carceral state and campaigns to redirect resources away from prisons and police and toward BIPOC communities. In response to the summer of unrest, a public conversation has
Heilbroner Faculty Fellow Emma Park Talks about Collaborating on the Sawyer Seminar Award and Future Plans
Two current Heilbroner Faculty Fellows, Emma Park and Aaron Jakes, are members of an interdisciplinary team of researchers at The New School that has been awarded a $225,000 Sawyer Seminar grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. With her fellow co-principal investigator Gustav Peebles, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the SPE, Emma Park, Assistant Professor
11/11 | Online | Jackie Wang on Writing Carceral Capitalism: The Praxis of Autotheory | Anthropology Lecture
Jackie Wang is a Heilbroner Center Fellow and Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies at The New School’s Eugene Lang College. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (2018), a book on the racial, economic, political, legal, and technological dimensions of the U.S. carceral state. Her forthcoming book manuscript, tentatively titled Vectors of Control, examines how, during
11/9 | ONLINE | Book Launch: Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country’s fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt’s emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and
11/5 | Online | Julia Ott on The Origins of Venture Capital
Heilbroner Center co-director Julia Ott is giving a talk online at University of Notre Dame on her latest research: “The Origins of Venture Capital, the Return of Inequality, and the Decline of Innovation in the United States, 1936 – 1982.” Julia Ott is Associate Professor of History at the New School. She holds a PhD
Carbon Cleanup: The Public is Paying, But Who is Profiting?
By June Sekera Originally published on Handelsblatt in German on August 20, 2020. Under the banner of climate mitigation, governments are subsidizing the commercial development of industrial-chemical methods of carbon capture on the premise that we can “remove” carbon dioxide that we emit and keep burning fossil fuels. Yet the two methods most widely funded by
Call for Applications: 2020-21 Heilbroner Dissertation and Faculty Fellowships
2020-21 Dissertation and Thesis Fellowships The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies is pleased to invite doctoral and master’s candidates in any discipline at the New School for Social Research to apply for a fellowship to support dissertation or thesis research and writing during the 2020-2021 academic year. During the period of their fellowship, recipients will
Bethany Moreton | The Man in the Gray Hair Shirt: Self-Mortification and Neoliberal Soul-Craft
Heilbroner Center Visiting Fellow and Professor of History from Dartmouth College, Bethany Moreton, will deliver a talk online based on her latest research, soon to be published in the journal Capitalism: A Journal of Economics and History, edited by Julia Ott, Associate Professor of History at The New School for Social Research. Ott will serve as a
4/23 | VIDEO | Book Talk: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein, moderated by Claire Potter
Thursday, April 23 | 12pm ONLINE Award-winning investigative journalist, reporter, and co-host of the Trump, Inc. podcast, Andrea Bernstein is launching her new book, American Oligarchs. Claire Potter, NSSR Professor of History, will moderate the online talk. The book tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families’ journey to the White House. It is