Economics for People with Ha-Joon Chang
In the new series “Economics For People” from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), Ha-Joon Chang explains k
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Appeal to Panelists and Members for the ASSA
Dear URPE Members, I want to remind everyone of the ongoing AEA attack on URPE sessions at the ASSA conference. As m
The Actuality of Marx’s Communism by Michael Heinrich
There is no doubt that communism was Karl Marx’s political goal. Nonetheless, he never published a book or an article wi
Capitalism, Neoliberalism and Unfree Labour
By Todd Gordon, (originally posted here) The last several decades has witnessed a sharp increase in legally unfree or c
A Note on Environmental Social Science
By David M. Fields, Within the social sciences there is a growing consensus that human social processes, in a dialectic
National Call to Action: The Job Guarantee Now! Campaign
Amid rising inequality and an uncertain future when it comes to good jobs, it is time for bold, transformative strategi
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
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
Call For Papers – Historical Materialism: The Great Transition 2020, Building Utopias
The 2007-2008 financial crisis did not put an end to neoliberal policies, but it did lead to a large-scale rejection of n
Firm innovation and capitalist dialectics: The economics of Nina Shapiro
Paper published in The Economic and Labour Relations Review. By Radhika Balakrishnan and Will Milberg. From the abstr
Free labor history books from Temple University Press
Temple University Press has been known for publishing significant titles in labor studies. Given this long history, m
URPE@EEA Call for papers
URPE Panels at the 14th Annual URPE @ EEA (Eastern Economics Association) Annual Conference February 27 – March
URPE@WSSA Call for papers
URPE will once again be participating in the Western Social Science Association Conference. The conference will be h
New book: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both? From Marx and Engels to Lenin and the October Revolution
by August H. Nimtz. From Haymarket Books: August Nimtz uncovers attempts to chart a course between plain opportunism
New book: Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism
by Christian Fuchs. From Pluto Press: The ‘end of history’ has not taken place. Ideological and economic
Impoverished economics? Unpacking the economics Nobel Prize
By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven. Originally published at openDemocracy UK This week it was announced that Abhijit Baner
New book: Is Socialism Feasible? Towards an Alternative Future
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson. From Edward Elgar: After being proclaimed dead, there is now a major revival of socialist ideol
New book: The Political Economy of Central Banking – Contested Control and the Power of Finance
by Gerald Epstein. From Edward Elgar: Central banks are among the most powerful government economic institutions in t
Matías Vernengo on MMT in the Periphery
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is gaining traction among progressives as an option for paying for massive govern