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Event  February 7, 2025 1:00pm

Rethinking Capitalism: “The Habitation Society: Creating Sustainable Prosperity”

Register Friday, February 7, 2025 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, Room B500, 65 West 11th Street, New York NY, 10011 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

Event  March 21, 2025 9:00am

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

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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

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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

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Event  January 31, 2025 12:30pm

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