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Heilbroner Affiliated Faculty and CEO of The Oliver Scholars Program, David Allyn wrote a recent op-ed in the New York Daily News, advocating for urgent investment on gifted and talented programming in grades K-8, since “gifted students who stay trapped in regular classes grow bored, lose interest in school and fail to realize their full potential.” Read The brightest kids

Heilbroner Student Fellow Jan Dutkiewicz wrote a recent article in Jacobin, offering a critique on the supposedly moral meat market and its animal-welfare violations, exposing “how hollow the rhetoric of corporate responsibility is” when it comes to protecting animals from gruesome and violent abuses. Read The Moral Meat Market in Jacobin

Heilbroner Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of History Natalia Mehlman Petrzela contributed to a recent article in The Guardian, offering a historical account of how conservative American politicians have used football to “mak[e] a broader point about the unfortunate feminization of American culture” in the twentieth century. Read Will the NFL go back to being its brutal old self

The Fall 2016 issue of Dissent Magazine, on the theme of Feminist Strategies, features Nancy Fraser in an interview with Sarah Leonard. The two discuss what Fraser calls the “crisis of care” in contemporary capitalism. Read the full interview at dissentmagazine.org.

The New School’s Michael Quirk reflects on the economic and political effects of Britain’s referendum vote to leave the European Union: Brexit is, in fact a Thelma-and-Louise-gambit that could not only destroy the political and economic stability of Great Britain and the EU, but could usher in a wave of radical Right-wing nationalism across the

Heilbroner Center Affiliate Teresa Ghilarducci contributed to a Bipartisan Policy Center report on retirement reform. Bloomberg | High Earners Are Going to Hate These Retirement Proposals By Suzanne Woolley June 9, 2016   A 146-page report on how to fix Social Security and more.   For the past two years, a commission made up of 19 high-profile people from the academic,

Heilbroner Center Affiliate Teresa Ghilarducci argues that “permanent austerity,” not low interest rates, is to blame for low returns to retirement plans.   “Why maybe the Fed isn’t to blame for paltry retirement-plan returns” Marketwatch, Published: June 13, 2016 3:28 p.m. ET Experts at a conference sponsored by Pensions & Investments point to a different culprit. By

Heilbroner Center Director Julia Ott provided The Nation magazine with a list of five recent university press books that are “fundamental to understanding our current crisis.” A quick look at her list: MAHOGANY The Costs of Luxury 
in Early America by Jennifer L. Anderson LAND OF THE FEE Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American

In her guest post for the Society of U.S. Intellectual History Blog, titled “Marginalized Economists: Revisiting Robert Heilbroner,” Rachel M. Cohen argues for the continuing significance of “arguably the most prominent dissenting American economist of the late twentieth century.” “While historians have begun to take interest in the history of economic thought, the tendency to

Johanna Oksala, one of the faculty who taught Rethinking Capitalism in Spring 2016, delivered her remarks about Paul Mason’s recent book on April 1, 2016. Watch the video of Johanna Oksala’s Comments on Paul Mason’s PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future on Public Seminar.