Human Rights

Auditing Economic Policy for Human Rights: A Guide for Activists and Advocates

December 16, 2019

Category: Diane Elson, Economic Policy, Ethics, Human Rights, James Heintz, Jonah Walters , Macroeconomics, Radhika Balakrishnan

By Radhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson, James Heintz and Jonah Walters Macroeconomic policy affects all of us, n

An Embarrassment of Riches and a Surplus of Shame: Can the Rich be Poor?

March 21, 2019

Category: Amartya Sen, capabilities, Development, Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Human Potential, Human Rights, Inequality, Mark Peacock, Poverty, Wealth

By Mark Peacock, This theoretical contribution to poverty studies investigates Amartya Sen’s work as a basis for exam

New Book: Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power

November 15, 2018

Category: Capitalism, Human Rights, Law, Law and Capitalism, Michael E. Tigar, Monthly Review, Power, Social Justice, State

By Michael E. Tigar. From Monthly Review Press: Lawyers confront mythologies in the context of their profession. But t

New Book: Deport, Deprive, Extradite – 21st Century State Extremism

March 27, 2018

Category: Authoritarianism, Democracy, Human Rights, Nisha Kapoor, State Theory, Violence

by Nisha Kapoor. From Verso: In 2012 five Muslim men—Babar Ahmad, Talha Ahsan, Khalid al-Fawwaz, Adel Abdul Bary, and A

New Book: Understanding Global Poverty – Causes, Capabilities and Human Development

August 16, 2017

Category: Benjamin Curtis, David Fields, Development, Human Potential, Human Rights, Inequality, International Political Economy, Poverty, Serena Cosgrove, world economy, World-System

By Serena Cosgrove, Benjamin Curtis. From Routledge: Understanding Global Poverty introduces students to the study

URPE Brooklyn Conference: Left-Wing Economics in a Right-Wing Political Climate

January 28, 2017

Category: Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, conferences, David Fields, Environment, Far Right, Heterodox Economics, Human Rights, immigration, Labor, Labor Movement, Left, Political economy, Resist, Right-Wing, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Social Security, Work, Workers, Working-Class

St. Francis College, Brooklyn NY, April 8, 2017 The Conference will bring together the theoretical perspectives of ra

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

Workers in US Poultry Industry Denied Bathroom Breaks

May 12, 2016

Category: David Fields, Human Rights, Oxfam, Well-being, Work, Workers

Workers in the US poultry industry are denied bathroom breaks and have to wear diapers, per a report revealed on May 11. O

Democracy Spring protests at the U.S Capitol

April 14, 2016

Category: Class Conflict, Corpocracy, Democracy, Democracy Now, Freedom, Human Rights, Money, Plutocracy, Power, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, The Real News Network, United States

Thousands of demonstrators, as part of the social justice organization Democracy Spring, have been staging a mass sit

40,000 Verizon Workers Strike Against Corporate 'Race to the Bottom'

April 14, 2016

Category: Class Conflict, David Fields, Human Rights, Inequality, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, Poverty, Power, Praxis, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Unions, Wages, Well-being, Work

Verizon workers across the East Coast marched in picket lines on Wednesday in the largest U.S. strike in recent memory t

'Up All Night' Protests Sweep France as 100,000 Join Pro-Democracy Movement

April 12, 2016

Category: austerity, Class Conflict, David Fields, Democracy, Europe, France, Human Rights, Inequality, Labour, Living Standards, Power, Praxis, Protest, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Well-being

Demonstrations this weekend were held in as many as 60 cities and towns across France as well as in Belgium, Germany, and

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

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

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