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Call for Papers: The Political Economy of University, INC.

August 22, 2016

Category: Academia, Academic Freedom, Call For Papers, Corporatization, Critical Social Science, David Fields, education, Higher Ed Crisis, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Teaching & Learning, World Economic Review

Call for Papers: The Political Economy of University, INC. Neoliberal restructuring includes an unprecedented atta

New PERI Working Paper: Co-Operative Capitalism, Acolytes and Apostates

July 21, 2016

Category: Bill McColloch, Capitalism, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Heterodox Economics, Keynes, Macroeconomics, Marxian Economics, PERI, Political economy, Post-Keynesian

By Bill McColloch From the abstract: The present paper seeks to locate the Bhaduri-Marglin (B-M) model as an historica

New Book by Samir Amin: Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

July 18, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Marx, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Monthly Review, Revolution, Russia, Samir Amin, Socialism

From Monthly Review Press Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a m

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

New Book by Ron Baiman: The Morality of Radical Economics

June 13, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Heterodox Economics, ideology, mainstream, Marxian Economics, Methodology, Neoclassical Economics, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Power, Praxis, Radical Economics, Ron Baiman, Social Action, Social Justice, Socialism

From Palgrave: This book is in equal parts a treatise on morality and economics, a critique of neoclassical orthodoxy,

New Book: Megacity Malaise, by Carlo Fanelli

June 5, 2016

Category: austerity, Canada, Carlo Fanelli, Critical Social Science, David Fields, financialization, Fiscal Crisis, Fiscal Policy, Inequality, Institutions, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Privatization, Scholarship

From Fernwood Publishing: Megacity Malaise documents how municipal governance, labour-management relations and p

New book By Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson: Economics in the 21st Century-A Critical Perspective

June 4, 2016

Category: Critical Social Science, David Fields, Heterodox Economics, Ian Hudson, mainstream, Neoclassical Economics, Political economy, Power, Radical Economics, Robert Chernomas, Scholarship, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice

From University of Toronto Press: Economics has always been nicknamed the “dismal science,” but today the field seems

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: Socialist Optimism, by Paul Auerbach

June 4, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Heterodox Economics, Paul Auerbach, Political economy, Radical Economics, Scholarship, Social Action, Social Theory, Socialism

From Palgrave: Paul Auerbach’s Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first cen

Call For Papers: International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE)

May 27, 2016

Category: Academia, Call For Papers, conferences, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Economic Pluralism, Geoff Schneider, Heterodox Economics, ICAPE, Political economy, Research, Teaching & Learning

International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) Call for Papers, Panels and Worksho

Overworked America: The economic causes and consequences of long work hours

May 23, 2016

Category: austerity, Capitalism, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Growth, Heather Boushey, Inequality, jobs, Leisure, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, Research, unemployment, United States, Wages, Well-being, Work, Workers

by Heather Boushey & Bridget Ansel Hard work is part and parcel of the American Dream, but at a certain point, workin

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

URPE @ The 2016 Left Forum

May 13, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, Communism, conferences, Critical Social Science, CUNY, David Fields, Democracy, Environment, Feminism, Freedom, Heterodox Economics, Human Potential, Human Rights, Humanism, Institutions, Left, Left Forum, Living Standards, Marx, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Power, Praxis, Protest, Race, Radical Economics, Research, Revolution, Scholarship, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Strategy, URPE

URPE encourage everyone who lives in or near New York City, or can make it to the conference, to attend URPE’s 7 spo

Alex Prichard & Owen Worth on a convergence between Marxism and Anarchism

April 23, 2016

Category: Alex Prichard, Antonio Gramsci, Capital & Class, Capitalism, Class Conflict, Communism, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Freedom, Human Potential, Humanism, ideology, Institutions, Marx, Marxism, Owen Worth, Political economy, Power, Praxis, Revolution, Social Action, Social Movements, Socialism, Strategy

New paper published by Capital & Class. From the abstract: In this article, we argue that despite there being littl

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

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