The Robert Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies invites you to participate in a conversation with Nancy Maclean, author of the controversial new book “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”, and New School faculty members Julia Ott, Claire Potter, and Sanjay Reddy. This panel discussion will take place
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Julia Ott on the new book The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by economist Robert Gordon
Associate Professor in the History of Capitalism and co-director of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School, Julia Ott wrote a recent piece in Public Books on how unfettered capitalism is incapable of addressing our most pressing problems, explaining that “only the foolhardy would look to private-sector innovation to save our
Darrick Hamilton on Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
Heilbroner Affiliated Faculty and Associated Professor of Economics and Urban Policy at Milano and Nssr, Darrick Hamilton wrote with Mark Paul and William Darity a recent piece in Jacobin on how giving everyone a job is the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace. Read Why We Need a
Public Seminar: Who’s Afraid of Workplace Democracy?
Katarina Spasic analyses recent research that indicates cooperatives manage resources just as efficiently For a year, from 1934-35, Simone Weil, the French philosopher and activist, worked at a factory as a manual laborer to deepen her understanding of the working class. In the aftermath of this experience, she wrote in her biography, “That contact with
Public Seminar: McKenzie Wark on Black Accelerationism
Heilbroner Affiliated Faculty and Professor of Culture and Media in Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research, Mckenzie Wark explains how Black Accelerationism is a willful pushing forward which includes as part of its method an attempt to clear away certain habits of thought and feeling in order to be open to a future which is
David Allyn on Investment in Education for talented low-income students in the New York Daily News
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
Jan Dutkiewicz on the Moral Meat Market and Animal-Welfare Violations in Jacobin
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
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on football and American conservatism in The Guardian
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
Nancy Fraser interview in Dissent: Capitalism’s Crisis of Care
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.