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O.O.P.S. vs M.O.O.C.s: Midterm Report, Part 1 Jeffrey Goldfarb — April 13, 2015 (This post has been republished in its entirety from Public Seminar) “Course-features” © Brenda Padilla | Flickr “The proponents of M.O.O.C.s (Massive Open Online Courses) look for the magic bullet, hoping to find a technological solution to the crisis in education. The

The Invention of Money Eli Zaretsky — April 12, 2015 (This post has been republished in its entirety from Public Seminar) The invention of money — discussed last week by Julia Ott — is one of the greatest of all human inventions, comparable to the invention of the wheel, if not quite up to the

Feminism, Capitalism, and the Family: Reflections on Margaret Benston’s ‘Political Economy’ Alix Jansen — April 6, 2015 (This post was republished in its entirety from Public Seminar) Margaret Benston’s article “Political Economy of Women’s Liberation” articulates the specific relationship of women to production in capitalism in a compelling way. She outlines the ways in which

The New School’s Trebor Scholz has written a piece for the university’s Public Seminar webpage. Available here, the piece is a transcription of his recent comments for the 8th Annual Eric N Schocket Memorial Lecture on Class and Culture, and discusses trends–both hopeful and concerning–regarding work in the 21st century.

Darrick Hamilton, Associate Professor of Economics and Urban Policy at Milano – The New School for International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy, was recently announced as nominated to be president-elect of the National Economic Association (NEA).  Duties as such include organizing the NEA’s annual conference for 2016, and leading several committees. Hamilton would subsequently be scheduled as president, and would deliver

Duncan Foley and Lance Taylor, who were recently honored with Tufts University’s Leontieff Prize, were recently interviewed for the Boston Globe.  The article, available here, discusses not only their personal backgrounds and career contributions, but also their views on current major economic issues. The Leontief Prize, awarded annually, in memory of Wassily Leontief, “is designed to recognize

New School Economics Professor Teresa Ghilarducci was discussed recently in USA Today, covering not only her personal background, but also her research agenda and career goals. The article, which can be found here, also poses her work within the context of today’s retirement picture.

by Vince Carducci read original post at publicseminar A review essay on A. J. Blaime’s The Arsenal of Democracy September 25th, 2014 | No responses These days people generally think of Detroit — with its vast expanses of abandoned real estate that have given rise to the photographic genre known as ruins porn — as the place where modernity went

by Cinzia Arruzza read original post at publicseminar In her groundbreaking book about emotional labor, The Managed Heart, Arlie Russell Hochshild suggests that emotions are not simply stored in us waiting to be expressed: they are also produced and managed. The notion and practice of affects management, both privately and socially, are not specific to capitalism. Hellenistic

by Panagiotis Sotiris read original post at publicseminar Greek higher education has been, for the past four years, under a double attack, both by crippling austerity-induced budget cuts and by an attempt to accelerate the imposition of aggressively neoliberal reforms towards an entrepreneurial model of higher education. To understand the importance of these processes, we must