Calendar Archive

Summer 2008
Jul 16	The Impact of IMF Policies on Developing Nations

Spring 2008
Feb 21	Environmental Working Group: Oligopolistic Nature of the Milk Industry in Turkey
Feb 26	India's Rural Economy in Transition: The Emergence of New Alliances
Feb 28	Environmental Working Group: Toxic 100 Rollout and the RSEI
Mar 6	Environmental Working Group: Regulation of Tourism in the Galapagos
Mar 23	The Dynamic Efficiency/Social Justice Dilemma Revisited: Contemporary Welfare Transformations
Mar 24	Regulation Theory in a Nutshell and Comparison with Social Structures of Accumulation Theory
Mar 25	Kenya's Rural Women: Agriculture, Sustainability, and Arid Lands Challenges
Mar 25	The Subprime Mortgage Crisis in Historical and International Perspective
Mar 25	The Subprime Lending Crisis: Implications for the European Union and the United States
Mar 25	Booksigning and party for A Measure of Fairness
Apr 3	The Corporate Toxics Information Project: Update on the Toxic 100
Apr 9	Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy
Apr 10	Report on PERI Renewable Energy Conference
Apr 13	Polarization and All That: Measures of Group Differences
Apr 15	Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration in the Developing World
Apr 17	Gender and Sustainable Development
Apr 21	Hedge Funds, Pseudo-Alpha and the Risks of Rare Events
Apr 24	Environmental Working Group
Apr 28	Glass Ceilings or Sticky Floors: Gender and Science in U.S. Industry
May 1	The Political Economy of Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation
May 8	Environmental Working Group
May 12	The Impact of the WTO: The Environment, Public Health and Sovereignty

Fall 2007
Oct 4	What's the Economy For, Anyway? Conference
Oct 5	What's the Economy For, Anyway? Conference
Oct 10	Preview screening of "Blood and Oil"
Oct 11	Environmental Working Group: "The transition to a greener economy: A macroeconomic analysis"
Oct 14	Is There a Left Left?
Oct 17	Recaliming Nature Book Launch Party
Oct 18	Environmental Working Group: Food-For-Work Programs in Ethiopia - Full Employment and Environmental Sustainability
Oct 21	Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Oct 21	Understanding the Global Water Crisis
Oct 26	E.F. Schumacher Lectures
Nov 1	Environmental Working Group: Sustainable Development and Women's Time-Use: Evidence from Turkey
Nov 1	An Economy that Works for All: Labor's Campaign for Economic Justice
Nov 8	Environmental Working Group: The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley
Nov 15	Environmental Working Group: What Gandhi and Hayek Have in Common: Viewing the Informal Economy through the Knowledge Lens
Nov 29	Environmental Working Group: Greening The "Strong State"?: Interrogating the Paradox of Environmental Policy Effectiveness in Turkey
Dec 6	Environmental Working Group: Are the Supply Side Agricultural Policies Counter-Productive? The Case of Animal Husbandry Sector in Turkey

Spring 2007
Feb 1	The Dissipation of Minimum Wage Gains for Workers through Labor-Labor Substitution
Feb 15	The Economics of Pesticide Use and Cotton Production in Benin
Mar 1	Disparities: Global Health and Clean Water Conference
Mar 7	Derivatives, Energy Prices, and Volatility: Would Joseph Have Better Served Pharaoh with Derivatives?
Apr 1	What Accumulation Regime? The Financialization of Canadian Capitalism
Apr 10	The Great Warming
Apr 23	Out of Balance: ExxonMobil’s Impact on Climate Change
Apr 24	The Next Industrial Revolution
Apr 25	The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Apr 30	Social Evolution & Revolution
May 1	Marxian Economics Today
May 2	Socialism Today in Theory & Practice
May 3	Neoliberalism & Resistance in India
May 6	Institutional Structure or Social Structure of Accumulation?
May 16	Inflation Targeting, Employment Creation, and Economic Development: A Panel Discussion at the IMF sponsored by the Intergovernmental Group of 24
May 17	Inflation Targeting, Employment Creation, and Economic Development Workshop

Fall 2006
Sep 7	Environmental Working Group Planning Meeting
Sep 11	Preferences and Public Policy: Are Good Laws a Substitute for Good Citizens?
Sep 13	Global Asymmetries and the Keynes Plan
Sep 19	Seen 'Inconvenient Truth?' Now What?: Focus the Nation on Solutions to Global Warming
Sep 24	Labor under Deregulated Finance: Some Concerns for India
Sep 25	Large Scale Privatization and the Post Communist Mortality Crisis
Oct 2	Money for Nothing: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Behavior of U.S. Corporate Profits
Oct 10	Gender and Commercial Farm Management in Brazil
Oct 16	Why Welfare Critics Went Astray
Oct 19	From Grower to Green Market: Filling the Rural Financing Gap
Oct 22	Altruistic Human Nature? Empirical Tests of Evolutionary Models
Oct 24	David Weiman lecture, TBA
Oct 30	Rob Parenteau: US Household Financial Imbalances and the Profit Resurgence: A Post-Keynesian Perspective
Nov 6	Nancy Folbre: Valuing Unpaid Work: Micro- and Macro-Dilemmas
Nov 7	William Sweet: Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy
Nov 13	Robert J. Shiller: Stock Markets, Real Estate, and 'Irrational Exhuberance': What is to be Done?
Nov 14	Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries
Nov 15	Is Full Employment Possible in an Era of Globalization?
Nov 15	Alternatives to Inflation Targeting: Central Banks as Agents of Development
Nov 19	The Evolution of Radical Economics
Nov 28	Women, Social Change and Economic Reconstruction in Post-war Guatemala: Evidence from a Coffee-Growing Region
Dec 1	New School-UMass Graduate Workshop in Economics
Dec 3	Value and Competition
Dec 4	Rising Global Trade and Debt Imbalances: What is the End Game? - A Panel Discussion
Dec 7	The Motherhood Manifesto film screening & panel discussion
Dec 11	Production Decentralization by Decentralized Exchange
Dec 12	The Evolution of Brazilian Capitalism in the 20th Century: Social Structures of Accumulation Approach
Apr 2	The Threads that Bind: Race and Gender Stratification and the Macroeconomics of Inequality

Spring 2006
Feb 2	Environmental Working Group Organizational meeting
Feb 9	The Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity in the Eastern part of Turkey
Feb 28	'1491' as Ecological History: Rethinking the Relationship between Humans and Nature in the Americas
Mar 1	Jefferson's Taper: How America's Revolutionaries Imagined our Cultural Commons
Mar 2	The New Global Division of Labor: Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing Schedule
Mar 6	Japanese Growth and Stagnation: A Keynesian perspective
Mar 9	Conservation of Biodiversity
Mar 13	China's Reform and Opening: Current State and Future Prospects
Mar 14	Female Income, Women’s Status, and Spousal Violence: Effects of the Mexican PROGRESA Program
Mar 27	Rising Foreign Outsourcing and Employment Losses in US Manufacturing, 1987 - 2003
Mar 28	Divergence, Dependency, and Uneven Development: The Political Economy of Global North and South
Apr 3	Are Labor Market Institutions Really at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Perspective on the Statistical Evidence
Apr 4	The Roots of the Controversy over Radical Political Economy at Harvard and in the Economics Profession: 1973-1974
Apr 5	On Trusteeship: New Property Rights for Social Wealth
Apr 5	The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right
Apr 6	Making Polluters Pay: A Strategy to Cut Global Warming Emissions and Promote Economic Justice through the Northeast's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Apr 9	Relative Prices and the Fallacy of Composition in Export-Led Growth: An Empirical Investigation
Apr 10	Middle-Class Retirement in Peril: Rising Risks and Ways to Address Them
Apr 10	Progressive Economic Policies Can Help Cure America's Ills
Apr 13	The 2002 Toxic 100
Apr 17	Safety First Consumption
Apr 20	Strengthening Tradition through Innovation: Reinventing development in rural Mexico
Apr 23	Race, Inequality, and Mortality
Apr 24	Decent Work in America: Developing the Work Environment Index
Apr 25	The Political Economy of Welfare Generosity: Insights from State Mothers' Pensions Law
Apr 25	Targeted Employment Programs: The Case of the Industrial Development Corporation
Apr 27	Presentation by Matthew Riddle
Apr 30	An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for South Africa, Part II
May 7	The Political Economy of Wealth Distribution
May 8	Contradictions of Economic Growth in the Neoliberal Era: Accumulation and Crisis in the Contemporary U.S. Economy
May 9	Uneven Regional Development and Gendered Migration within Ghana
May 15	Round Table on Approaches to Political Economy
May 16	Dancing to an American Tune: The Wagner Act (1935) and the Accords Matignon (1936) in Comparative Perspective
May 17	Environmental Wealth and Gender Justice: From paradox to potential
Jun 20	Conference on Social Wealth

Fall 2005
No results for this semester.

Spring 2005
Jan 8	Who Benefits From the Boston Living Wage Ordinance?
Jan 20	The Euro and the Dollar
Mar 3	Rethinking Growth Policies in the Devloping World
Mar 7	Dams, Development, and Resistance on India's Narmada River
Mar 7	Winnowing Wheat from Chaff: Social Democracy and Libertarian Socialism in the 20th Century
Apr 13	Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS)
Apr 17	Conference on Institutions and Economic Development - Theory, History and Contemporary Experiences
Apr 29	Argentinian Autonomista Project, a New Multimedia Presentation:"Women in the Road Blockades and Self-Managed Enterprises, and Women Working in Factories Under Worker Control"
May 4	Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
May 10	But What About Peasant Farmers? Payment for Environmental Services as a Tool for Rural Development
May 10	Multicriteria Ecological-Economic Valuation and Collaborative Conservation: Applications of a Holistic Ecosystem Health Indicator in the U.S. and Latin America

Fall 2004
Sep 22	Oil, the Iraq War, and American Foreign Policy
Sep 26	Biodiversity & Democratic Governance
Oct 3	Blood Bankers; Tales From the Global Underground Economy
Oct 5	The Misuses of the ‘Invisible Hand’ Concept in Western New England College Principles Textbooks: What Adam Smith Really Said and Its Implications
Oct 15	Conference on Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation
Oct 17	Military Preparedness and Environmental Pollution: Human vs. National Security
Oct 19	The Declining Power of Unions in Mexico
Oct 21	Is Imperialism Good for the U.S. Economy?
Oct 25	Worlds Apart: Measuring Global and International Inequality
Oct 26	The Bush Doctrine of Preventive War: Ruled Out by Intelligence
Nov 14	Foreign Aid and War Economies
Nov 21	Empty Sources of Growth Accounting, and Empirical Replacements à la Kaldor With Some Beef
Dec 6	Fiscal Policy in the Bush Years: A Policy Primer

Spring 2004
Feb 16	Guaranteeing Reproductive Health and Rights: The Role of Trade Liberalization
Feb 23	"The Washington Consensus and the Crisis of Democracy", Noam Chomsky
Feb 23	"Iraq and Beyond", Noam Chomsky
Mar 1	Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment
Mar 7	The Determinants of Rentier Incomes in OECD Countries: Monetary Policy, Financial Liberalization, and Labor Solidarity
Mar 9	How Has Inflation Targeting Affected Monetary Policy in South Africa?
Mar 23	North American Premier Screening: Still, The Children Are Here
Mar 25	The Corporate Environmental Strategy Project
Mar 29	Globalization and the Honduran Struggle
Apr 13	Debt, Balance-of-Payments Crises, and Debates on the International Financial System
Apr 15	International Working Group Meeting: “Alternatives to Inflation Targeting”
Apr 18	Globalization and Conflict: The Impact of Structural Adjustment
Jun 6	International Financial Institutions and Peacebuilding
Jun 16	Gender and Central Bank Policy
Aug 22	Employment Targeted Policies for South Africa

Fall 2003
Sep 15	The State of the US and Global Economies Two Years After 9-11: A Panel Discussion
Sep 23	Book launch: Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership and The New Environmental Activists.
Oct 2	Living wages: Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?
Oct 6	The Continuity of Imperialism and the Changing Structure of Capitalism
Oct 9	How AIDS Came to Africa: Myths, History, and the Birth of the HIV Pandemic
Oct 13	Will Military Keynesianism Bail Bush out of the Post-Bubble Slump?
Oct 15	Grand Opening of Gordon Hall
Oct 19	Distribution of costs and structures for enforcement
Oct 21	Prospects for Peace with Justice: Israeli and Palestinian Academics Speak Their Minds
Oct 22	Living Wages: Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?
Oct 22	Will Military Keynesianism Bail Bush out of the Post Bubble Slump?
Oct 23	The Fiscal Crisis of the States
Oct 26	Wage Bargaining and the U.S. Phillips Curve: Was Greenspan Right about ‘Traumatized Workers' in the 1990s?
Oct 27	The New Imperialism
Nov 5	The 5th Gala Rethinking Marxism Conference: Marxism and the World Stage
Nov 11	Globalization and the Washington Consensus: A Debate
Nov 23	Globalization, Labor Standards and Women's Rights: Dilemma's of Collective (In)action in an Interdependent World
Nov 24	Political and Socioeconomic Change in Venezuela in the Chaves Era
Dec 7	The Globalization of Market Failure? International Trade and Sustainable Agriculture

Spring 2003
Jan 2	Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting
Jan 7	Natural Assets Conference
Jan 15	Applying a Securities Transactions Tax to the U.S: Design Issues, Market Impact, Revenue Estimates
Feb 12	Experiences in Capital Account Management
Feb 20	The Economic Impact of the Boston Living Wage Ordinance
Feb 21	A Securities Transaction Tax for U.S. Financial Markets: Design Issues, Market Impact, Revenue Potential
Feb 26	Countdown to War: a status report on the situation in Iraq.
Mar 4	The Economic Cost of the War on Iraq
Mar 4	Books Not Bombs
Mar 9	Wage Bargaining and the U.S. Phillips Curve: was Greenspan right about traumatized workers in the 90s?
Mar 11	The Economics of Civil War: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Mar 19	Living Wages: Good Intentions and Economic Logic In Conflict?
Mar 27	The Growing International Gap in Work Hours: Overworked Americans and Europe's Work-Time Alternatives
Mar 30	"Economics and Consumer Culture", Juliet Schor
Mar 31	The New Face of Unequal Exchange: Low wage manufacturing, commodity chains, and global inequality
Apr 7	Bilateral and Multilateral Donor Peace Conditionality in War Economies
Apr 7	Gender and Foreign Direct Investment
Apr 9	The War in Iraq: Economic Costs with a Human Face
Apr 9	Clintonomics: The Hollow Boom
Apr 10	Living Wage Laws in the U.S.: Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?
Apr 11	The Economic Impact of the Boston Living Wage Ordinance: Examining Firm Effects
Apr 13	Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars
Apr 21	Egalitarian Development in the Era of Globalization
Apr 30	The Governance of the IMF
May 5	"The Challenge of Toxic Globalization:View From the South", Sunita Narain
May 13	Does the U.S. Working Class Gain from U.S. Imperialism?
Jun 1	Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics Conference

Fall 2002
Sep 12	Living Wage Conference
Oct 2	The Redundant American
Oct 16	Economic Analysis of the Santa Monica Living Wage Ordinance
Oct 17	The Role of the Informal Sector in Creating Viable Global Labor Standards
Nov 21	Book launch: Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars.

Spring 2002
Jan 24	Living Wages: Global Principles for Economic Justice
Feb 11	The Living Wage Movement: Good Intentions and Economic Logic in Conflict?
Feb 25	The U.S. Economy 1995-2000: A Neo-Liberal Success Story?
Mar 4	Globalization and Sustainable Agriculture
Mar 4	The Rationality of Violence, Terror, and War
Mar 27	Flexible Work in the Information Economy: Labor Markets in Silicon Valley
Apr 4	George Won't Be So We Will: Organizing for Climate Protection at the Local and State Levels
Apr 7	Globalization and Sustainable Agriculture
Apr 11	Solving Environmental Injustices in Massachusetts: Forging Greater Community Participation in the Planning Process
Apr 15	Why Afghanistan? Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy and Post-War Reconstruction -- A Panel Discussion
Apr 17	An Environmental Justice Activists Panel
Apr 17	Environmental Justice: Reclaiming Our Communities
Apr 18	Global Labor Standards and Living Wages Working Group Meeting
Apr 21	The Living Wage and Anti-Sweatshop Movements: Good Intentions and Economic Logic in Conflict?
Apr 23	Towards a Just Peace in the Middle East: Israeli and Palestinian Perspectives
Apr 29	Technology and the New Economy
Apr 28	From Natural Resources to Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership

Fall 2001
Oct 4	Globalization and the Current Economic Crisis
Oct 6	Mobilizing for Justice: Economic Development and the Living Wage
Oct 15	The September 11 Events: Causes, Impact and Aftermath
Oct 24	Convocation address: The Living Wage: Good Intentions and Economic Logic in Conflict?
Nov 7	Opening event for the Jacksonville Living Wage Campaign
Nov 12	Roundtable discussion: The Economic Implications of the Current International Crisis
Dec 5	The Impact of September 11th and the Afghan War on the Global Economy
Dec 6	PERI Conference on Financialization and the Global Economy
Dec 17	The Path to U.S. Recession: From Clinton to Bush to September 11

Spring 2001
Feb 14	Repeal of Glass-Steagall: What is the Point of U.S. Financial Deregulation?
Mar 1	Natural Assets Conference
Mar 26	Shared Work/Valued Care: New Norms for Organizing Market Work and Unpaid Care Work
Mar 28	The Anti-Sweatshop Movement: Good Intentions and Economic Logic in Conflict?
Apr 26	"The Acequia Commonwealth: A Landscape Ecology for Environmental Justice"
May 16	The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values
Jun 7	Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income
Jun 25	Crop Genetic Diversity and Rural Livelihoods
Jul 11	"Ecological Economics and Political Economy: Why the Twain Should Meet,"

Fall 2000
Oct 12	The Evolution of Inequality in the Age of Globalization: New Evidence from Old Data
Oct 19	Democratizing Global Economic Governance as part of the Development, Peacebuilding and the Environment Program.
Oct 26	Finance and Investment: Evidence From Africa and Around the World, and Policy Implications.
Oct 30	Globalization, Rural Institutions, and Poverty in Africa

Spring 2000
Jan 20	Natural Assets Conference

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