Research

Julia Ott, Associate Professor in the History of Capitalism and the co-director of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College at the New School, writes for Dissent Magazine about how the tax code’s preferential treatment of capital gains reflects the fact that both Democrat and

New School Professor Darrick Hamilton recently authored an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution entitled, “As Morehouse and Spelman graduate, consider fate and funding of HBCUs.” Coauthored with Carolyn Ash, New School Alum Alan Aja, and William “Sandy” Darity, Jr, the article (available here) argues that, “As long as the dramatic racial wealth gap persists, enhanced

New School Professor Darrick Hamilton’s work has recently been utilized in two publications. One, in which his work has been cited, is in the American Prospect here, and the other, which is part of a Boston Fed Discussion Series on Community Development is available here.

New School Professor Darrick Hamilton has published, in a joint effort between Duke University and The New School, a report for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston entitled, “The Color of Wealth in Boston.” The report shows that, “with respect to types and size of assets and debt held, the data collected on white households and nonwhite

Will Milberg, the dean of The New School for Social Research (NSSR), and five other New School faculty members will be participating in an international comparative analysis on the topic of wealth and income disparity in Germany and the United States. Sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the analysis comprises ten projects, each funded through

This article is reproduced entirely from Jacob Assa’s Public Seminar post found here.  No one can escape discussions about the state of “the economy.” They inform political campaigns in the U.S., debt and austerity battles in the Eurozone, and development efforts in the poorest countries in the world. Our ideas about “the economy” — how

Duke University Press has recently published New School Professor Orit Halpern’s book, “Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945.” Part of the Experimental Futures Series, the book, which can be found here, tells “both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second

Columbia University Press has recently published New School Professor Chiara Bottici’s book, “Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary.” Part of the New Directions in Critical Theory Series, the book, which can be found here, offers “a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal and its nexus with the political” by bringing “fresh perspective to the formation of political