Register Friday, February 7, 2025 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Hirshon Suite 2nd Floor of 55 W. 13 St. Please join us for a presentation by Fred Block on his new important book, The Habitation Society: Creating Sustainable Prosperity. The presentation will be moderated by Will Milberg (The New School) and feature comments by Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin), Natasha Lennard (The New School and
Events
Social Change Under Corporate Capitalism: A Panel Discussion
Register Friday, January 31, 2025 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Wolff Conference Room D1103 Presented by Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School for Social Research. Please join us for a timely event with Michael H. Posner, Scott Pinkus, Lenore Palladino, and Tiya Gordon
Carceral Political Economy in the Era of Late Mass Incarceration
Register Friday, March 21, 2025 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM and Saturday, March 22, 2025 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Wolff Conference Room D1103 Presented by The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School for Social Research and The Law and Political Economy Project. What is the political economy of “late” mass incarceration? How has
Market Failure: The Climate Crisis and the Limits of Capitalism
View Recording In his new book The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet, Brett Christophers argues that there is a central flaw in the market-led approach to the climate crisis: renewables aren’t profitable enough to spur decarbonization. In this event, Christophers will speak with historian Adam Tooze, in a conversation moderated by journalist Kate Aronoff, about the
ONLINE | The New Varieties of Capitalism: Crack-Up, Spiderweb, and Monopsony
Register Online | Zoom Join an online panel discussion with: Quinn Slobodian, Professor of History, Boston University and author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and a Dream of a World Without Democracy Kimberly Kay Hoang, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago and author of Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets Ashok Kumar, Lecturer, Birkbeck College,
Decolonizing International Affairs Seminar Series
Register Rm. UL102, Starr Foundation Hall, University Center, The New School Graduate Programs in International Affairs presents series 1 of Decolonizing International Affairs – The Past and Future of the New International Order: An Agenda to Decolonize the Global Economy In 1974, nations of the South won an agreement to end economic colonialism and dependence
A View From the Field: The Visions of Erna Brodber
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
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
Designing Symbols of Resistance
Hosted By Drake Reed 2021-22 Heilbroner Creative Practioner We are seeing surveillance technology evolve faster than ever, and we need creative ways to investigate how surveillance impacts our daily lives. In this workshop, we will explore the history of black resistance and methods of counter-mapping surveillance constructs. Throughout history, resistance movements have always had to
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