The Moral Economy of Housing
By David M. Fields, We must be insistently aware of how space can be made to hide consequences from us, how relations of po
Human Potential
New book: Neoliberal Lives – Work, Politics, Nature, and Health in the contemporary United States
By Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson and Mark Hudson. From Manchester University Press: This book is about the transformat
New book: Fully Automated Luxury Communism – A Manifesto
by Aaron Bastani. From Verso: A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capital
An Embarrassment of Riches and a Surplus of Shame: Can the Rich be Poor?
By Mark Peacock, This theoretical contribution to poverty studies investigates Amartya Sen’s work as a basis for exam
The Foundations for an Ethical Political Humanist Social Science
By David M. Fields, Social reality must not be recognized as an aura of perceived characteristics, of which there lies n
New Book: Radical Happiness – Moments of Collective Joy
By Lynne Segal. From Verso: Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we ar
New Book: Understanding Global Poverty – Causes, Capabilities and Human Development
By Serena Cosgrove, Benjamin Curtis. From Routledge: Understanding Global Poverty introduces students to the study
New Book: Stories of Progressive Institutional Change – Challenges to the Neoliberal Economy
By Deborah M. Figart. From Palgrave: This book presents a series of political economy short stories of collective agen
Josep Maria Antentas: Strategic Imagination and Party
Josep Maria Antentas teaches Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He has published in English an
New Book: Fictitious Capital – How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future
by Cédric Durand, translated by David Broder. From Verso: The 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that follow
CALL FOR PAPERS: Freedom and Justice – Jobs, Economic Security, and Inclusion
The National Economic Association (NEA) and the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) announce and invite p
New paper by Al Campbell – Updating Cuba's Economic Model: Socialism, Human Development, Markets and Capitalism
In light of the attention to Cuba following the death of Fidel Castro, here is a recent paper on Cuba by a member of the URPE
A Very Brief Musing on Power
By David Fields Humans are accustomed to assuming that the essence of power lies within the structural violence of poli
New Book by Paresh Chattopadhyay: Marx's Associated Mode of Production – A Critique of Marxism
From Palgrave: This book, by Paresh Chattopadhyay, aims to restore Marx’s original emancipatory idea of socialism,
Capital, Accumulation, Production and Employment: A WEA Online Conference
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
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
New paper published by Capital & Class. From the abstract: In this article, we argue that despite there being littl
Richard D. Wolff on US Economy from a Marxist Perspective
Wolff analyzes the state of the US economy from a Marxist perspective. Capitalism yields an unequal distribution of we
New Book: Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice – The radical potential of human rights
From Routledge. By Radhika Balakrishnan, James Heintz, & Diane Elson The dominant approach to economic policy ha