A View from the Field (60 mins) explores the life’s work and the political era of Jamaican literary laureate, historian, fiction writer, sociologist and community activist Erna Brodber. Brodber, one of Jamaica’s great literary figures of contemporary times, is best known for such novels as Myal and Louisiana, and for a number of historical and sociological studies. She has
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ONLINE | Book Launch: Against NGOs: A critical perspective on Civil Society, Management, and Development
Nidhi Srinivas Associate Professor of Management Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment THE NEW SCHOOL discussants Suchitra Vijayan Author & Researcher NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Alf Gunvald Nilsen Professor, Department of Sociology UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA What would development look like if its practitioners and scholars were ‘against NGOs,’ challenging common sense about them? This book
Beyond Neoliberalism and “Neo-Illiberalism”: Economic Policy and Performance for Sustainable Democracy
The global political retreat from liberal democracy and the rise of authoritarianism is well documented, but the economic causes and consequences of this “backsliding” have received much less attention. This conference will concentrate on the economics of the recent wave of anti-democratic regimes. Analyzing the economic causes and especially the economic consequences of the authoritarian
Class Traitors: One Percenters for Radical Redistribution (NSSR General Seminar)
Presented by Rachel Sherman, Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology. Most rich people don’t seem to have a problem with massive economic inequality, justifying their wealth with reference to their hard work and moral character. But some wealthy people don’t buy these justifications, because they recognize that they have had “unearned” advantages, and see themselves as
Book Discussion: “Cannibal Capitalism”
Book Discussion Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism. How Our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About it (Verso 2022) Speakers Nancy Fraser (NSSR) Alyssa Battistoni (Barnard College) David Harvey (CUNY) Rocio Zambrana (Emory University) Abstract Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations,
Economics Seminars: Ha-Joon Chang
Dr. Ha-Joon Chang will present his latest book Edible Economics. For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind
1/26 | ONLINE | Speculative Communities: A roundtable on the new book by Aris by Komporozos-Athanasiou
On Wednesday, January 26th, the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies hostedAris Komporozos-Athanasiou for a virtual event on his new book, SpeculativeCommunities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World. Speakers included Arjun Appadurai (New York University), Melinda Cooper (AustralianNational University), and Jamieson Webster (Psychoanalyst), with moderation by JuliaOtt (The New School). In Speculative Communities, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
10/12 | Insurance, Slavery, and the Question of Valuation: Michael Ralph, John Clegg, Ben Wiggins
Join the Critical History Today lecture series on October 12 for a panel discussion with Michael Ralph, Associate Professor at the School of Medicine at New York University and a Visiting Fellow at the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies; John Clegg, Assistant Professor of History at University of Chicago; and Ben Wiggins, Director of the Digital Arts, Sciences, & Humanities
Fall 2021 | Currency and Empire: Sawyer Seminar Series
“Currency and Empire: Monetary Policy, Race, and Power” is supported by a Sawyer Seminar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The seminar brings together an interdisciplinary team of faculty, graduate students, and guests to study the deep interplay among monetary policy, historical and contemporary dynamics of imperialism. Visit the Sawyer Seminar Events page for more details and
4/14 | DISSENT Spring Issue Launch: Global Economic Disorder
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