Heilbroner c0-director and Dissent Magazine editor Julia Ott was recently featured in Dissent Magazine’s newest forum, “Debating the Uses and Abuses of Neoliberalism.” Professor Ott debated the explanatory power of neoliberalism alongside such experts as N.D.B. Connoly and Timothy Shenk. For a full list of debate positions, click here. To read Professor Ott’s piece, click
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NEW JOURNAL: “Capitalism and History” from the University of Pennsylvania Press
Please join us in congratulating our colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania Press on the launch of their forthcoming journal, Capitalism and History. More information is available below. For information on subscriptions and submission instructions, please email journals@pobox.upenn.edu.
Professor Darrick Hamilton on “Baby Bonds”
Our colleague Professor Darrick Hamilton was recently featured in the Washington Post for his “Baby Bonds” proposal, wherein each American baby would receive between $500 and $50,000 at birth. These funds would be placed in a bond, untouchable by both family and child until the recipient’s 18th birthday. Funds could be used to pay for
McKenzie Wark and Chiara Bottici Featured in New Book from the Museum of Capitalism
Former Heilbroner Fellow McKenzie Wark and New School Philosophy’s Professor Chiara Bottici were recently featured in a new publication from the Museum of Capitalism, recently opened in Oakland, California. Purchase the book here. The new collection “offers a glimpse into its controversial project of untimely memorialization. Published contemporaneously with the opening of Museum of Capitalism in
“Can monetary policy survive policy model mis-specification?” by Mark Setterfield
Congratulations to Faculty Fellow Professor Mark Setterfield on his forthcoming article, “Can monetary policy survive policy model mis-specification? Model uncertainty and the perils of ‘policy model complacency’” from Metroeconomica. An abstract of the essay can be found below. Read the whole article here. “The question addressed in this paper is: can monetary policy succeed in stabilizing
What Cass Sunstein Gets Wrong About Marxism, Sanders, and American Politics
Heightening the Contradictions and Missing the Point The following is an excerpt from Jan Dutkiewicz and Andrew Norris’s essay, “What Cass Sunstein Gets Wrong About Marxism, Sanders, and American Politics: Heightening the Contradictions and Mising The Point.” A full version can be found on Public Seminar. Dutkiewicz is a former Heilbroner Center Graduate Fellow. “More
Professors Julia Ott and Nancy Fraser Feature in Dissent’s 2017 Roundup
Congratulations to Heilbroner Center co-director Julia Ott and affiliated faculty member Nancy Fraser for topping Dissent Magazine’s most-read articles of 2017. Professor Fraser topped the list with her essay, “The End of Progressive Neoliberalism.” Her article “Against Progressive Neoliberalism, A New Progressive Populism” also made Dissent’s Top 20. Professor Ott, who also sits on Dissent’s editorial board, came
“Financialization on the Factory Farm”: Former Fellow Jan Dutkiewicz
Please join former Heilbroner Graduate Fellow Jan Dutkiewicz on January 26th at the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy and the Policy History Program at the University of California-Santa Cruz. A current New School PhD student and fellow at the International Center for the Humanities and Social Change, Dutkiewicz will speak on
Teresa Ghilarducci on the Precarity of American Retirees
Heilbroner Center colleague, SCEPA researcher, and NSSR Economics Professor Teresa Ghilarducci has been cited in a variety of news outlets over the past few months. Among other forces, Ghilarducci highlighted the strength of the GOP, arguing “The Republicans are correct that the current tax treatment of 401(k)s and IRAs breaks disproportionately help the well off,” says
Sociology Professor Rachel Sherman explains “why wealthy women are doomed to be miserable.”
New School for Social Research Sociology Professor and former Heilbroner Center Faculty Fellow Rachel Sherman recently wrote a piece for Quartz on why wealthy women are doomed to be miserable. Sherma’s article looks at women “in their late 30s or 40s, with children at home. Nearly all were married to men working in finance who brought home