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Mark Weisbrot on Venezuela's Economic Crisis

October 23, 2016

Category: crisis, Exchange Rates, Latin America, Left, Mark Weisbrot, Venezuela

By Mark Weisbrot The international media have provided a constant fusillade of stories and editorials (not always eas

Das Kapital at 150: Marx's Critique of Political Economy and the Global Crisis Today

October 12, 2016

Category: Academia, Call For Papers, Capitalism, crisis, Das Kapital, David Fields, Historical Materialism, Marx, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Political economy, Socialism

A one-day conference at Hofstra University celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first edition

New Working Paper by James Crotty: The Bonus-Driven “Rainmaker” Financial Firm

October 9, 2016

Category: crisis, David Fields, Finance, Financial Crisis, financialization, Great recession, Inequality, Instability, James Crotty, Wall Street

The Bonus-Driven “Rainmaker” Financial Firm: How These Firms Enrich Top Employees, Erode Shareholder Value and Crea

James K. Galbraith: From the Destruction of Greece to Democracy in Europe

August 23, 2016

Category: austerity, Class Conflict, crisis, David Fields, Democracy, DiEM25, Euro, Euro Crisis, Europe, European Union, Freedom, Greece, Greek Crisis, James K. Galbraith, Troika, Yanis Varoufakis

by James K. Galbraith, In protesting the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, John Maynard Keynes wrote: “The polic

New Book: An Introduction to Macroeconomics – A Heterodox Approach to Economic Analysis

June 24, 2016

Category: crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Edward Elgar, Heterodox Economics, Instability, L-P Rochon, Macroeconomics, mainstream, Methodology, Money, Sergio Rossi

From Edward Elgar Edited by Louis-Philippe Rochon & Sergio Rossi This important new book introduces students to t

New Book: The Great Financial Meltdown – Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy Created?

June 17, 2016

Category: crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Economic Policy, Edward Elgar, Financial Crisis, Great recession, Heterodox Economics, Marxian Economics, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Post-Keynesian, Radical Economics, Turan Subasat

From Edward Elgar. Edited by Turan Subasat The Great Financial Meltdown reviews, advocates and critiques the systemi

New Book: Latin America after the Financial Crisis – Economic Ramifications from Heterodox Perspectives

June 13, 2016

Category: crisis, Critical Social Science, Financial Crisis, Great recession, Heterodox Economics, International Political Economy, Latin America, Macroeconomics, Marxian Economics, Paul Cooney, Periphery, Political economy, Radical Economics, world economy

From Palgrave: Juan E. Santarcángelo (Editor), Orlando Justo (Editor), Paul Cooney (Editor) The global crisis is con

On neocolonialism and the crisis in Puerto Rico

June 6, 2016

Category: austerity, Balance of Payments Constraint, crisis, Financial Crisis, Imperialism, M Vernengo, Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, Puerto Rico

Argeo T. Quiñones-Pérez and Ian J. Seda-Irizarry discuss in this piece the crisis in Puerto Rico. Austerity is being im

New Book by Jerry Harris: Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy

June 4, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Globalization, Jerry Harris, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Scholarship, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements

From Clarity Press: Democracy is in crisis, from the streets of Ferguson to the struggle in Greece. Throughout the worl

New Book by Richard D. Wolff: Capitalism's Crisis Deepens – Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

May 24, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, David Fields, Democracy, Europe, Financial Crisis, Great recession, Inequality, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Political economy, Richard D. Wolff, Socialism, United States, world economy

From Haymarket Books: While most mainstream commentators view the crisis that provoked the Great Recession as having

Has the Left Run its Course in Latin America?

May 18, 2016

Category: CEPR, Class Conflict, crisis, David Fields, Democracy, Growth, Instability, Latin America, Left, Mark Weisbrot, Power, Social Movements, world economy

By Mark Weisbrot Hardly. Despite recent setbacks, it has led the region’s “second independence,” benefiting hundre

Capital, Accumulation, Production and Employment: A WEA Online Conference

May 16, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, conferences, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Development, Distribution, Economic Policy, Effective Demand, employment, Finance, Freedom, Globalization, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Human Potential, Inequality, Instability, Institutions, International Political Economy, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Methodology, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Poverty, Power, Praxis, Production, Research, Scholarship, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Sustainability, Well-being, Work, Workers, World Economics Association (WEA), world economy

Can We Bend the Arc of Global Capital Toward Justice? is an online conference sponsored by the World Economics Associat

Richard D. Wolff on US Economy from a Marxist Perspective

April 22, 2016

Category: austerity, Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, David Fields, Great recession, Heterodox Economics, Historical Materialism, Human Potential, Inequality, Instability, Living Standards, Marx, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Political economy, Radical Economics, Richard D. Wolff, United States

Wolff analyzes the state of the US economy from a Marxist perspective. Capitalism yields an unequal distribution of we

Ilene Grabel on Capital Controls

April 22, 2016

Category: Capital Controls, crisis, David Fields, Debt, Development, Economic Policy, Financial Crisis, Financial Liberalization, Geography, Globalization, Ilene Grabel, IMF, Institutions, International Political Economy, Neoliberalism, PERI, world economy

New paper published by PERI. From the abstract: The startling resuscitation of capital controls during the global cri

SCEPA Presents Yanis Varoufakis, Live Online April 25th

April 20, 2016

Category: austerity, Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, Critical Social Science, Currency, David Fields, Debt, Distribution, Economic Policy, EMU, Euro, Euro Crisis, Europe, Finance, Financial Crisis, Great recession, Greek Crisis, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Inequality, Mark Setterfield, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Power, Praxis, Radical Economics, Research, SCEPA, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Syriza, Troika, Tsipras, unemployment, Well-being, world economy, Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis will deliver the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) annual Robert Heilbroner Mem

Prabhat Patnaik on Why Do We Have Unemployment?

April 20, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, David Fields, Distribution, Effective Demand, Fiscal Policy, Heterodox Economics, Inequality, Instability, jobs, Keynes, Labour, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Marx, Marxian Economics, Monetary Policy, Monthly Review, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Prabhat Patnaik, Radical Economics, Social Justice, unemployment, Wages, Wealth, Well-being, Work, world economy

By Prabhat Patnaik Unemployment has become so persistent a phenomenon in contemporary times that there is a common fee

New Book: Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice – The radical potential of human rights

April 7, 2016

Category: Climate Change, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Development, Diane Elson, Economic Policy, Finance, Fiscal Policy, Freedom, GDP, Globalization, Great recession, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Human Potential, Human Rights, Inequality, Instability, James Heintz, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Methodology, Monetary Policy, Neoliberalism, PERI, Political economy, Poverty, Power, Praxis, Radhika Balakrishnan, Radical Economics, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Sustainability, Well-being

From Routledge. By Radhika Balakrishnan, James Heintz, & Diane Elson The dominant approach to economic policy ha

Is Economics Responding to Critique?

March 25, 2016

Category: Academia, Academic Freedom, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Financial Crisis, Heterodox Economics, Higher Ed Crisis, Jamie Morgan, mainstream, Methodology, Neoclassical Economics, Review of Political Economy, UK

The October 2015 issue of the Review of Political Economy contains an article by Jamie Morgan, of Leeds Beckett Univers

Age of Austerity: Capital, the Financial Crisis and the State in Canada

March 24, 2016

Category: austerity, Canada, Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Financial Crisis, financialization, Geoffrey McCormack, Globalization, Heterodox Economics, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Radical Economics, Robin Chang, Social Justice, Socialism, Socialist Project, State Theory, Thom Workman

Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman interviewed by Robin Chang: The financial and economic crisis of 2008 has left a co

Age of Austerity: Capital, the Financial Crisis and the State in Canada

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