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New Book: Gender and Economics in Muslim Communities – Critical Feminist and Postcolonial Analyses

October 17, 2017

Category: Critical Social Science, Ebru Kongar, Elora Shehabuddin, Feminism, Feminist Economics, Gender, Islam, Jennifer C. Olmsted, Orientalism, Political economy, Postcolonial Theory, Well-being, Women

Edited by Ebru Kongar, Jennifer C. Olmsted, & Elora Shehabuddin. From Routledge: Bringing together feminist ana

The US teacher pay gap is wider than ever

August 14, 2016

Category: Class Conflict, David Fields, education, EPI, Inequality, Living Standards, Wages, Well-being, Work

A New EPI report finds that the teacher pay penalty is bigger than ever. In 2015, public school teachers’ weekly wages we

EPI Report: Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county

June 16, 2016

Category: David Fields, Distribution, EPI, Great recession, Inequality, jobs, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, United States, Wages, Wealth, Well-being, Workers

By Estelle Sommeiller, Mark Price, and Ellis Wazeter Income inequality has risen in every state since the 1970s and in m

New Book by Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin: Economics, Culture and Development

June 15, 2016

Category: culture, David Fields, Development, Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin, Feminism, Geography, Heterodox Economics, International Political Economy, Political economy, Well-being, world economy

From Routledge: This book examines the treatment of culture and development in the discipline of economics, thereby f

Lawrence Mishel on Raising America’s Pay

June 9, 2016

Category: David Fields, Distribution, Economic Policy, EPI, Great Moderation, Inequality, Lawrence Mishel, Living Standards, Poverty, United States, Wages, Wealth, Well-being, Work, Workers

Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, delivered the following testimony before the Democra

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

Striking Verizon workers introduce virtual picket line

May 13, 2016

Category: Inequality, Protest, Social Action, Social Justice, Social Movements, Strikes, Unions, Verizon, Wages, Well-being, Work, Workers

The 39,000 striking Verizon workers, members of the Communications Workers and the Electrical Workers from Maine thr

CUNY Faculty Union Authorizes Strike

May 13, 2016

Category: Academia, Class Conflict, CUNY, David Fields, Social Action, Social Justice, Social Movements, Strategy, Strikes, Unions, Wages, Well-being, Workers

After more than six years without a raise and five years without a contract for its members, the union of faculty and prof

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

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

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

YSI Workshop @ 2016 ECLAC Summer School on Latin American Economies

April 7, 2016

Category: Balance of Payments Constraint, Call For Papers, conferences, David Fields, Debt, Dependency Theory, Development, ECLAC, Economic Policy, Esteban Perez, Finance, Fiscal Policy, Gilberto Tadeu Lima, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Imperialism, Inequality, Instability, Institutions, International Political Economy, Latin America, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Neoliberalism, Periphery, Radical Economics, Research, Robert Blecker, Tommasso Ciarli, UN, Well-being, world economy

The YSI Latin America Working Group is hosting a workshop at the ECLAC/UN Summer School on Latin American economies. Th

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 by Heather Boushey: Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict

March 25, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Commodification, David Fields, Feminism, Gender, Heather Boushey, Heterodox Economics, Inequality, Institutions, jobs, Leisure, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Power, Radical Economics, Social Change, Social Justice, Well-being, Work

From Harvard University Press: Employers today are demanding more and more of employees’ time. And from campaign barb

Yanis Varoufakis on A United, Democratised Europe Is The Only Weapon Against A Dark Continent

March 6, 2016

Category: Capitalism, David Fields, Democracy, Euro, Euro Crisis, Europe, Financial Crisis, Greek Crisis, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, Power, Praxis, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Troika, unemployment, Well-being, Yanis Varoufakis

Following the Berlin Launch of DiEM25, eleven representatives of the GREENS (including two Members of the European Pa

URPE at the Easterns 2016 Conference Program

February 24, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, conferences, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Development, Easterns, Feminism, Finance, Heterodox Economics, Inequality, Macroeconomics, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Methodology, Political economy, Praxis, Research, Scholarship, Social Justice, Well-being

URPE at the Eastern Economics Association 2016 Conference Washington, D.C., Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Feb.

J.W. Mason: Can Sanders Do It?

February 24, 2016

Category: bernie sanders, David Fields, Fiscal Policy, Gerald Friedman, Heterodox Economics, J.W. Mason, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Social Action, Well-being

By J.W. Mason Originally posted here My old professor Jerry Friedman wrote a piece several weeks ago, arguing that a com

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