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SCEPA Presents Yanis Varoufakis, Live Online April 25th
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Student Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Springs into Action
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40,000 Verizon Workers Strike Against Corporate 'Race to the Bottom'
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New Book: Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice – The radical potential of human rights
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Call for Papers ASHE/NEA Summer Conference 2016
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New Book by Heather Boushey: Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict
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Age of Austerity: Capital, the Financial Crisis and the State in Canada
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March/April 2016 Issue of Dollars&Sense is out
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The Criminalization of Dissent at JNU
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Call For Papers: URPE at 50! The Past, Present & Future of Radical Economics
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New Book by Jodi Dean: Crowds and Party
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New Book: The Demise of Finance-dominated Capitalism, Explaining the Financial and Economic Crises
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