New Issue of Social Research Journal: Challenges to Democracy and the Future of Capitalism

READ THE FULL ISSUE HERE The latest issue of Social Research Journal is guest edited by Heilbroner Center Director and Professor of Economics, William Milberg, with articles from faculty members Federico Finchelstein, Mark W. Frazier, Teresa Ghilarducci, Jessica Pisano, & Mark Setterfield; students Ludovica Tursini & Michael Tedesco; and alumni Rick McGahey (also a SCEPA economist), Mariana Mazzucato, & Thomas Liess.  From the Editor (Prof. Milberg): “This

Beyond Neoliberalism and Neo-illiberalism

READ THE FULL ISSUE HERE  Markus Gabriel / Anna Katsman / Thomas Liess / William Milberg (Eds.) Beyond Neoliberalism and Neo-illiberalism: Economic Policies and Performance for Sustaining Democracy (The New, June 2024), features contributions from notable economic scholars, including Joseph Stiglitz and David Autor. This collection explores the economic roots of the alarming global trend toward authoritarianism and identifies some of the common

Letter: Future will be shaped by the heresies of heterodox economics 

From Daniyal Khan, The New School, Alumnus (Economics 2022); Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan Dissenters at elite economics departments are indeed important in challenging the incestuous high priesthood of economics as your leader makes clear (“Is economics in need of trustbusting?”, FT