Calendar Archive

Fall 2011
Sep 22	The Future of Work in Massachusetts: Labor's Agenda for Economic Development
Oct 5	Can Job Search Assistance Do Harm? Long-Term Effects of the Washington Alternative Work Search Experiment
Oct 12	She maketh fine linnen and eateth not the bread of idleness: Supervising women's labor in 1750s Boston
Oct 17	Neoclassical Inflation: The Theory That's Not There
Oct 19	Topic to be announced
Oct 19	POSTPONED: Shared Capitalism at Work
Oct 24	Programs to Promote Economic Growth, Employment, and an Increase in Equity
Oct 25	Topic to be announced
Oct 26	Regulation and Competition of the US Railroads in the 19th Century: A Historical Perspective
Nov 1	U.S. Gross Capital Flows and Economic Expansion in the 2000s
Nov 2	Topic to be announced
Nov 4	The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
Nov 7	The Inauguration of the Andrew Glyn Professorship
Nov 8	Topic to be announced
Nov 9	The horse, then the carriage: A simple plan for Africa’s economic diversification
Nov 10	The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Nov 14	Long Term Labor, Dual Labor Markets, Growth, and Distribution
Nov 15	A Macro-monetary Interpretation of Marx's Theory and the Transformation Problem
Nov 16	Tramping out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Dec 5	Insuring Against Drought-Related Livestock Mortality: Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya

Summer 2011
Jul 8	Debating Taboos: The Securities Transaction Tax

Winter 2011
Feb 8	Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference: Emerging Green Sectors: Recycling, Chemicals, Water, Agriculture and Other Growing Industries
Feb 23	External Borrowing and Capital flight from Africa: Development Finacing with a Leaking Purse
Feb 24	The Path to Full Employment
Mar 4	From Organic Certification to Ecological Sustainability: Lessons from Greece and Austria
Mar 7	Real Foundations of Financial Crisis
Mar 9	Dilemmas of Liberalization in Syria and the Arab Middle East: understanding the political economy of the revolts in the Middle East
Mar 10	The Summit on Jobs & America's Future
Mar 11	Fiscal Policy in the New Consensus: Theoretical Conundrums and Policy Paradoxes
Mar 21	International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food
Mar 22	Towards a Critical Theory of Socialism: From Vienna to Santa Fe
Mar 23	Relations of Production and Modes of Knowledge Appropriation: A Case Study of Weaving in India
Mar 28	Recovering from the Recession: A Panel Discussion
Apr 1	Reconnecting to Work: Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment & Prospects for Job Creation
Apr 1	Topic TBA
Apr 4	Central Banking and Systemic Risk in Capital Markets
Apr 6	The End of 9 to 5: Freelancers, Empty Offices and the Transformation of Work
Apr 8	Environmental Injustice in Texas: Exposure of Mothers to Industrial Air Toxics
Apr 12	Beyond Redistribution: Examining the Implications of the Inverse Relationship between Land Size and Productivity in Kenya
Apr 14	From Frances Perkins to the Living Wage Movement
Apr 15	The Resource Curse Revisited: Chinese Investment in Latin America
Apr 20	Heterogeneous Labor Relations, Small Farms, and Cooperatives: An Empirical Investigation of Peru's Coffee Growers
Apr 22	Digging Out from Crisis and Austerity in Europe and The United States: Finance, Job Creation, Public Ownership and Green Recovery
Apr 25	An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamic Properties of Piece-Rate Contracts: Ratchet Effects and Social Conflict in an Early U.S. Textile Mill
Apr 29	Biofuels in Brazil: A Critical Appraisal
May 2	Profit Sharing, Distribution and Growth
May 6	Book launch for America's Climate Problem: The Way Forward
May 12	Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility conference

Fall 2010
Oct 1	Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States
Oct 5	The Dependence of China’s Economic Growth on Exports and Investment
Oct 6	Climate Change Avatars
Oct 12	The Political Economy of Emissions Abatement with Alternative Technologies
Oct 14	14th Annual Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture
Oct 19	Reconstructing Marx's Theory of Labour Subsumption
Oct 20	Gender, Remittances and Intrahousehold Allocation: Does Gender Matter?
Oct 25	Reproduction of Feudal and Capitalist Modes of Production
Oct 27	Can Financial Reform End the Vise Grip of Finance?
Nov 2	Falling into the Liquidity Trap
Nov 5	Journalists' Roundtable: Perspectives on Crisis and Recovery
Nov 8	Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market? Evidence from Minimum Wage Laws
Nov 9	Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India
Nov 10	Do Generous Unemployment Benefits Explain the Crisis in Long-Term Unemployment?
Nov 11	Are Green Jobs a Mirage, or the Heart of the New Economy?
Nov 15	The Effect of Workplace Democracy on Productivity and Profitability: An Experimental Investigation
Nov 15	Perpetual Stagnation: Economic Life in America with No Household Debt Growth
Nov 17	Serfdom, Emancipation, and Economic Development in Tsarist Russia
Nov 22	Veblen Effects, Political Representation, and the Reduction of Working Time over the 20th Century: Theory and Evidence
Nov 23	Seminar topic to be announced
Nov 30	Why are Credit Card Rates so High?
Dec 1	The social and economic dimensions of employment contract design in early U.S. history
Dec 7	Seminar topic to be announced

Winter 2010
Feb 1	Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy
Feb 2	Enablers of Exuberance
Feb 12	The Political Economy of Retirement and Work
Feb 16	Neo-liberalism, Financialization and the Economic Crisis
Feb 22	The Inequality of Opportunity in Korea and (possibly) Japan
Feb 23	The Monetary Threat to the Global Economy
Mar 1	Real Exchange Rate and Elasticity of Labor Supply in a Balance-of-Payments Constrained Macrodynamics
Mar 2	The Fragility of the U.S. Economy
Mar 3	Dynamic Patterns of Accumulation and Income Distribution
Mar 5	Janet Currie; topic to be announced
Mar 9	Why Neoclassical Economics and Modern Finance Create Perfect Environments for Perfect Crimes, Bubbles, and Crises
Mar 11	The New Lombard Street
Mar 23	Topic TBA
Apr 5	Exploring the Robustness of the Balance-of-Payments-Constrained-Growth Idea in Multiple Good Framework
Apr 6	The Crisis of Capitalism: A Global Perspective
Apr 12	Work After Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship
Apr 13	A Minsky View of the Financial Crisis, and Future Prospects
Apr 26	Too Big to Bail: The 'Paulson Put,' Presidential Politics and the Financial Meltdown
Apr 27	Structural Crisis or Great Recession? Understanding the Current Crisis

Fall 2009
Sep 22	Does Fast Growth in India and China Harm US Workers? Insights from Simulation Analysis
Sep 23	Anti- La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer and Vishny? Results from the Cambridge Research on Law, Finance and Development
Sep 29	Socialization of Risks without Socialization of Investment: A Marxian-Minskian Analysis of Big Government Capitalism
Oct 7	What's the Economy for, Anyway?
Oct 9	topic to be announced
Oct 13	Culture and Identity Matters: America’s African Diaspora and Labor Market Outcomes
Oct 15	The Economic Logic and Moral Imperative of Full Employment
Oct 16	How Badly Are Climate Risks Being Under-Estimated?
Oct 21	The Financial Crisis of 1810: Indians and Spaniards in California React to Spain's Imperial Collapse
Oct 26	United Nations Panel Discussion on Green Growth & Sustainable Development
Oct 27	The Impacts of Public Employment on Health and Health Inequalities: Evidence from Micro Data
Oct 30	Carbon Taxation in the EU
Nov 6	Enivironmantal Justice
Nov 10	Contours of Alternative Policy Making in Venezuela
Nov 10	Clean Energy Connections Conference
Nov 10	Wade Rathke, topic TBA
Nov 13	Technological Diffusion and the Cost of Renewable Energy
Nov 13	National Conference to Create Living Wage Jobs for All, Meet Human Needs & Sustain the Environment
Nov 17	Who Lost Wall Street? Should We Try to Find It?
Nov 18	From Scottsboro to Munich: Transnationalism and the History of the 1930s
Dec 1	The Political Economy of Socialist Industrialization
Dec 2	Child Gender Bias in Ethiopia, Iran, and India: The Rothbarth Intrahousehold Allocation Model Re-examined
Dec 4	Enivironmantal Justice, Co-Pollutants, and Climate Change

Spring 2009
Jan 26	Regional Cost of Living Differences and the EITC: One Size Fits All?
Jan 27	The State of Women in the New England Workforce
Feb 10	Can We Afford the Future?
Feb 11	Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of their Own
Feb 11	Trends in the North-South Terms-of-Trade, 1960-2006
Feb 12	The New Greening of America
Feb 23	How Unleashed Capitalism Produces Economic Crises: What is to be done?
Feb 24	Energy & the Economy: Fostering a Green Recovery
Mar 9	Dynamic Effects of Currency Undervaluation
Mar 20	Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction
Mar 23	Growth and Immiseration in a Prebisch Framework
Mar 24	Keynes
Mar 25	Is Labor Dead?
Mar 27	Employment, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: A Conference in Honor of Professor Azizur Khan
Mar 30	The Ethics of Distribution in a Warming Planet
Apr 1	Imachi Nkwu: How Commercialization of Natural Resources can Create Common Property
Apr 2	Learning from Bolivian Activism
Apr 3	How to Succeed in International Climate Negotiations by Really Trying
Apr 7	Neoliberal Policy and Household Borrowing
Apr 9	Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets
Apr 13	Topic to be announced
Apr 14	The Political Economy of Free Trade Agreements: Energy and National Development Strategy
Apr 15	The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Reconsidered
Apr 17	Constructing Consensus: A Comparison of Scientific Community Advocacy in Mexico and Jamaica
Apr 21	Topic to be annonced
Apr 24	What are the Determinants of Food/Animal Product Availability at the Household Level in Turkey?
Apr 27	Social Democracy and Rational Workers
Apr 30	When Elephants Fight, It is the Grass that Suffers The Personal Account of a Lost Boy of Sudan
May 1	Power & Environmental Policies: an international comparison
May 4	Social choice and Information Squashing: A Note on the Calculus of Mappings
May 5	The Current Economic Crisis: Inequality, Power, and Ideology
May 8	Topic to be announced
May 11	China's Growth Model: Problems and Alternatives
May 23	Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover
Jun 2	The Military: More Spending, Less Security

Fall 2008
Sep 12	Considerations on Interest Rate Exogeneity
Sep 19	Green Recovery
Sep 22	An Empirical Analysis of Risk, Incentives, and the Delegation of Worker Authority
Sep 26	Inequality in the Greenhouse? Environmental Justice and Policies to Combat Global Warming
Sep 26	Green Economics and the Revival of the U.S. Working Class
Oct 2	Racial Conflict and Transformation in South Africa
Oct 10	Models of Persuasion
Oct 17	Policy Options to Accelerate the Use of Renewable Energy: Lessons from Europe
Oct 20	University of Massachusetts Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series: Green Growth and U.S. Economic Renewal
Oct 24	Corporate Environmental Justice Performance
Oct 25	New School / University of Massachusetts Economics Graduate Program Conference
Oct 27	How the Rich are Destroying the Earth
Oct 27	Behavioral Public Economics: Mechanism Design when Preferences Depend on Incentives
Oct 31	Beyond High Discount Rates: Understanding Low Demand for Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency
Nov 3	Trust and Collective Action in Latin America: Field Experiments in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Lima, Montevideo, and San Jose
Nov 10	The Geography of Vice
Nov 12	Monetary and Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis
Nov 22	Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy
Dec 1	Topic to be announced
Dec 5	Governance and Resilience
Dec 11	Unemployment Insurance and the Search Intensity
Feb 24	The Current Financial and Economic Crisis: A Systemic Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism
Apr 28	From the Bailout of the Bondholders to the Nationalization of Banks

Summer 2008
Jul 16	The Impact of IMF Policies on Developing Nations
Aug 8	The People Side of Sustainability: Ensuring Equitable and Enduring Benefits

Spring 2008
Feb 22	Environmental Working Group: Oligopolistic Nature of the Milk Industry in Turkey
Feb 27	India's Rural Economy in Transition: The Emergence of New Alliances
Feb 29	Environmental Working Group: Toxic 100 Rollout and the RSEI
Mar 7	Environmental Working Group: Regulation of Tourism in the Galapagos
Mar 24	The Dynamic Efficiency/Social Justice Dilemma Revisited: Contemporary Welfare Transformations
Mar 25	Regulation Theory in a Nutshell and Comparison with Social Structures of Accumulation Theory
Mar 26	Kenya's Rural Women: Agriculture, Sustainability, and Arid Lands Challenges
Mar 26	The Subprime Mortgage Crisis in Historical and International Perspective
Mar 26	The Subprime Lending Crisis: Implications for the European Union and the United States
Mar 26	Booksigning and party for A Measure of Fairness
Apr 4	The Corporate Toxics Information Project: Update on the Toxic 100
Apr 10	Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy
Apr 11	Report on PERI Renewable Energy Conference
Apr 14	Polarization and All That: Measures of Group Differences
Apr 16	Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration in the Developing World
Apr 18	Gender and Sustainable Development
Apr 22	Hedge Funds, Pseudo-Alpha and the Risks of Rare Events
Apr 25	Environmental Working Group
Apr 29	Glass Ceilings or Sticky Floors: Gender and Science in U.S. Industry
May 2	The Political Economy of Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation
May 9	Environmental Working Group
May 13	The Impact of the WTO: The Environment, Public Health and Sovereignty

Fall 2007
Oct 5	What's the Economy For, Anyway? Conference
Oct 6	What's the Economy For, Anyway? Conference
Oct 11	Preview screening of "Blood and Oil"
Oct 12	Environmental Working Group: "The transition to a greener economy: A macroeconomic analysis"
Oct 15	Is There a Left Left?
Oct 18	Recaliming Nature Book Launch Party
Oct 19	Environmental Working Group: Food-For-Work Programs in Ethiopia - Full Employment and Environmental Sustainability
Oct 22	Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Oct 22	Understanding the Global Water Crisis
Oct 27	E.F. Schumacher Lectures
Nov 2	Environmental Working Group: Sustainable Development and Women's Time-Use: Evidence from Turkey
Nov 2	An Economy that Works for All: Labor's Campaign for Economic Justice
Nov 9	Environmental Working Group: The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley
Nov 16	Environmental Working Group: What Gandhi and Hayek Have in Common: Viewing the Informal Economy through the Knowledge Lens
Nov 30	Environmental Working Group: Greening The "Strong State"?: Interrogating the Paradox of Environmental Policy Effectiveness in Turkey
Dec 7	Environmental Working Group: Are the Supply Side Agricultural Policies Counter-Productive? The Case of Animal Husbandry Sector in Turkey

Spring 2007
Feb 2	The Dissipation of Minimum Wage Gains for Workers through Labor-Labor Substitution
Feb 16	The Economics of Pesticide Use and Cotton Production in Benin
Mar 2	Disparities: Global Health and Clean Water Conference
Mar 8	Derivatives, Energy Prices, and Volatility: Would Joseph Have Better Served Pharaoh with Derivatives?
Apr 2	What Accumulation Regime? The Financialization of Canadian Capitalism
Apr 11	The Great Warming
Apr 24	Out of Balance: ExxonMobil’s Impact on Climate Change
Apr 25	The Next Industrial Revolution
Apr 26	The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
May 1	Social Evolution & Revolution
May 2	Marxian Economics Today
May 3	Socialism Today in Theory & Practice
May 4	Neoliberalism & Resistance in India
May 7	Institutional Structure or Social Structure of Accumulation?
May 17	Inflation Targeting, Employment Creation, and Economic Development: A Panel Discussion at the IMF sponsored by the Intergovernmental Group of 24
May 18	Inflation Targeting, Employment Creation, and Economic Development Workshop

Fall 2006
Sep 8	Environmental Working Group Planning Meeting
Sep 12	Preferences and Public Policy: Are Good Laws a Substitute for Good Citizens?
Sep 14	Global Asymmetries and the Keynes Plan
Sep 20	Seen 'Inconvenient Truth?' Now What?: Focus the Nation on Solutions to Global Warming
Sep 25	Labor under Deregulated Finance: Some Concerns for India
Sep 26	Large Scale Privatization and the Post Communist Mortality Crisis
Oct 3	Money for Nothing: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Behavior of U.S. Corporate Profits
Oct 11	Gender and Commercial Farm Management in Brazil
Oct 17	Why Welfare Critics Went Astray
Oct 20	From Grower to Green Market: Filling the Rural Financing Gap
Oct 23	Altruistic Human Nature? Empirical Tests of Evolutionary Models
Oct 25	David Weiman lecture, TBA
Oct 31	Rob Parenteau: US Household Financial Imbalances and the Profit Resurgence: A Post-Keynesian Perspective
Nov 7	Nancy Folbre: Valuing Unpaid Work: Micro- and Macro-Dilemmas
Nov 8	William Sweet: Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy
Nov 14	Robert J. Shiller: Stock Markets, Real Estate, and 'Irrational Exhuberance': What is to be Done?
Nov 15	Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries
Nov 16	Is Full Employment Possible in an Era of Globalization?
Nov 16	Alternatives to Inflation Targeting: Central Banks as Agents of Development
Nov 20	The Evolution of Radical Economics
Nov 29	Women, Social Change and Economic Reconstruction in Post-war Guatemala: Evidence from a Coffee-Growing Region
Dec 2	New School-UMass Graduate Workshop in Economics
Dec 4	Value and Competition
Dec 5	Rising Global Trade and Debt Imbalances: What is the End Game? - A Panel Discussion
Dec 8	The Motherhood Manifesto film screening & panel discussion
Dec 12	Production Decentralization by Decentralized Exchange
Dec 13	The Evolution of Brazilian Capitalism in the 20th Century: Social Structures of Accumulation Approach
Apr 3	The Threads that Bind: Race and Gender Stratification and the Macroeconomics of Inequality

Spring 2006
Feb 3	Environmental Working Group Organizational meeting
Feb 10	The Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity in the Eastern part of Turkey
Mar 1	'1491' as Ecological History: Rethinking the Relationship between Humans and Nature in the Americas
Mar 2	Jefferson's Taper: How America's Revolutionaries Imagined our Cultural Commons
Mar 3	The New Global Division of Labor: Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing Schedule
Mar 7	Japanese Growth and Stagnation: A Keynesian perspective
Mar 10	Conservation of Biodiversity
Mar 14	China's Reform and Opening: Current State and Future Prospects
Mar 15	Female Income, Women’s Status, and Spousal Violence: Effects of the Mexican PROGRESA Program
Mar 28	Rising Foreign Outsourcing and Employment Losses in US Manufacturing, 1987 - 2003
Mar 29	Divergence, Dependency, and Uneven Development: The Political Economy of Global North and South
Apr 4	Are Labor Market Institutions Really at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Perspective on the Statistical Evidence
Apr 5	The Roots of the Controversy over Radical Political Economy at Harvard and in the Economics Profession: 1973-1974
Apr 6	On Trusteeship: New Property Rights for Social Wealth
Apr 6	The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right
Apr 7	Making Polluters Pay: A Strategy to Cut Global Warming Emissions and Promote Economic Justice through the Northeast's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Apr 10	Relative Prices and the Fallacy of Composition in Export-Led Growth: An Empirical Investigation
Apr 11	Middle-Class Retirement in Peril: Rising Risks and Ways to Address Them
Apr 11	Progressive Economic Policies Can Help Cure America's Ills
Apr 14	The 2002 Toxic 100
Apr 18	Safety First Consumption
Apr 21	Strengthening Tradition through Innovation: Reinventing development in rural Mexico
Apr 24	Race, Inequality, and Mortality
Apr 25	Decent Work in America: Developing the Work Environment Index
Apr 26	The Political Economy of Welfare Generosity: Insights from State Mothers' Pensions Law
Apr 26	Targeted Employment Programs: The Case of the Industrial Development Corporation
Apr 28	Presentation by Matthew Riddle
May 1	An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for South Africa, Part II
May 8	The Political Economy of Wealth Distribution
May 9	Contradictions of Economic Growth in the Neoliberal Era: Accumulation and Crisis in the Contemporary U.S. Economy
May 10	Uneven Regional Development and Gendered Migration within Ghana
May 16	Round Table on Approaches to Political Economy
May 17	Dancing to an American Tune: The Wagner Act (1935) and the Accords Matignon (1936) in Comparative Perspective
May 18	Environmental Wealth and Gender Justice: From paradox to potential
Jun 21	Conference on Social Wealth

Fall 2005
No results for this semester.

Spring 2005
Jan 9	Who Benefits From the Boston Living Wage Ordinance?
Jan 21	The Euro and the Dollar
Mar 4	Rethinking Growth Policies in the Devloping World
Mar 8	Dams, Development, and Resistance on India's Narmada River
Mar 8	Winnowing Wheat from Chaff: Social Democracy and Libertarian Socialism in the 20th Century
Apr 14	Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS)
Apr 18	Conference on Institutions and Economic Development - Theory, History and Contemporary Experiences
Apr 30	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 5	Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
May 11	But What About Peasant Farmers? Payment for Environmental Services as a Tool for Rural Development
May 11	Multicriteria Ecological-Economic Valuation and Collaborative Conservation: Applications of a Holistic Ecosystem Health Indicator in the U.S. and Latin America

Fall 2004
Sep 23	Oil, the Iraq War, and American Foreign Policy
Sep 27	Biodiversity & Democratic Governance
Oct 4	Blood Bankers; Tales From the Global Underground Economy
Oct 6	The Misuses of the ‘Invisible Hand’ Concept in Western New England College Principles Textbooks: What Adam Smith Really Said and Its Implications
Oct 16	Conference on Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation
Oct 18	Military Preparedness and Environmental Pollution: Human vs. National Security
Oct 20	The Declining Power of Unions in Mexico
Oct 22	Is Imperialism Good for the U.S. Economy?
Oct 26	Worlds Apart: Measuring Global and International Inequality
Oct 27	The Bush Doctrine of Preventive War: Ruled Out by Intelligence
Nov 15	Foreign Aid and War Economies
Nov 22	Empty Sources of Growth Accounting, and Empirical Replacements à la Kaldor With Some Beef
Dec 7	Fiscal Policy in the Bush Years: A Policy Primer

Spring 2004
Feb 17	Guaranteeing Reproductive Health and Rights: The Role of Trade Liberalization
Feb 24	"The Washington Consensus and the Crisis of Democracy", Noam Chomsky
Feb 24	"Iraq and Beyond", Noam Chomsky
Mar 2	Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment
Mar 8	The Determinants of Rentier Incomes in OECD Countries: Monetary Policy, Financial Liberalization, and Labor Solidarity
Mar 10	How Has Inflation Targeting Affected Monetary Policy in South Africa?
Mar 24	North American Premier Screening: Still, The Children Are Here
Mar 26	The Corporate Environmental Strategy Project
Mar 30	Globalization and the Honduran Struggle
Apr 14	Debt, Balance-of-Payments Crises, and Debates on the International Financial System
Apr 16	International Working Group Meeting: “Alternatives to Inflation Targeting”
Apr 19	Globalization and Conflict: The Impact of Structural Adjustment
Jun 7	International Financial Institutions and Peacebuilding
Jun 17	Gender and Central Bank Policy
Aug 23	Employment Targeted Policies for South Africa

Fall 2003
Sep 16	The State of the US and Global Economies Two Years After 9-11: A Panel Discussion
Sep 24	Book launch: Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership and The New Environmental Activists.
Oct 3	Living wages: Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?
Oct 7	The Continuity of Imperialism and the Changing Structure of Capitalism
Oct 10	How AIDS Came to Africa: Myths, History, and the Birth of the HIV Pandemic
Oct 14	Will Military Keynesianism Bail Bush out of the Post-Bubble Slump?
Oct 16	Grand Opening of Gordon Hall
Oct 20	Distribution of costs and structures for enforcement
Oct 22	Prospects for Peace with Justice: Israeli and Palestinian Academics Speak Their Minds
Oct 23	Living Wages: Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?
Oct 23	Will Military Keynesianism Bail Bush out of the Post Bubble Slump?
Oct 24	The Fiscal Crisis of the States
Oct 27	Wage Bargaining and the U.S. Phillips Curve: Was Greenspan Right about ‘Traumatized Workers' in the 1990s?
Oct 28	The New Imperialism
Nov 6	The 5th Gala Rethinking Marxism Conference: Marxism and the World Stage
Nov 12	Globalization and the Washington Consensus: A Debate
Nov 24	Globalization, Labor Standards and Women's Rights: Dilemma's of Collective (In)action in an Interdependent World
Nov 25	Political and Socioeconomic Change in Venezuela in the Chaves Era
Dec 8	The Globalization of Market Failure? International Trade and Sustainable Agriculture

Spring 2003
Jan 3	Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting
Jan 8	Natural Assets Conference
Jan 16	Applying a Securities Transactions Tax to the U.S: Design Issues, Market Impact, Revenue Estimates
Feb 13	Experiences in Capital Account Management
Feb 21	The Economic Impact of the Boston Living Wage Ordinance
Feb 22	A Securities Transaction Tax for U.S. Financial Markets: Design Issues, Market Impact, Revenue Potential
Feb 27	Countdown to War: a status report on the situation in Iraq.
Mar 5	The Economic Cost of the War on Iraq
Mar 5	Books Not Bombs
Mar 10	Wage Bargaining and the U.S. Phillips Curve: was Greenspan right about traumatized workers in the 90s?
Mar 12	The Economics of Civil War: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Mar 20	Living Wages: Good Intentions and Economic Logic In Conflict?
Mar 28	The Growing International Gap in Work Hours: Overworked Americans and Europe's Work-Time Alternatives
Mar 31	"Economics and Consumer Culture", Juliet Schor
Apr 1	The New Face of Unequal Exchange: Low wage manufacturing, commodity chains, and global inequality
Apr 8	Bilateral and Multilateral Donor Peace Conditionality in War Economies
Apr 8	Gender and Foreign Direct Investment
Apr 10	The War in Iraq: Economic Costs with a Human Face
Apr 10	Clintonomics: The Hollow Boom
Apr 11	Living Wage Laws in the U.S.: Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?
Apr 12	The Economic Impact of the Boston Living Wage Ordinance: Examining Firm Effects
Apr 14	Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars
Apr 22	Egalitarian Development in the Era of Globalization
May 1	The Governance of the IMF
May 6	"The Challenge of Toxic Globalization:View From the South", Sunita Narain
May 14	Does the U.S. Working Class Gain from U.S. Imperialism?
Jun 2	Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics Conference

Fall 2002
Sep 13	Living Wage Conference
Oct 3	The Redundant American
Oct 17	Economic Analysis of the Santa Monica Living Wage Ordinance
Oct 18	The Role of the Informal Sector in Creating Viable Global Labor Standards
Nov 22	Book launch: Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars.

Spring 2002
Jan 25	Living Wages: Global Principles for Economic Justice
Feb 12	The Living Wage Movement: Good Intentions and Economic Logic in Conflict?
Feb 26	The U.S. Economy 1995-2000: A Neo-Liberal Success Story?
Mar 5	Globalization and Sustainable Agriculture
Mar 5	The Rationality of Violence, Terror, and War
Mar 28	Flexible Work in the Information Economy: Labor Markets in Silicon Valley
Apr 5	George Won't Be So We Will: Organizing for Climate Protection at the Local and State Levels
Apr 8	Globalization and Sustainable Agriculture
Apr 12	Solving Environmental Injustices in Massachusetts: Forging Greater Community Participation in the Planning Process
Apr 16	Why Afghanistan? Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy and Post-War Reconstruction -- A Panel Discussion
Apr 18	An Environmental Justice Activists Panel
Apr 18	Environmental Justice: Reclaiming Our Communities
Apr 19	Global Labor Standards and Living Wages Working Group Meeting
Apr 22	The Living Wage and Anti-Sweatshop Movements: Good Intentions and Economic Logic in Conflict?
Apr 24	Towards a Just Peace in the Middle East: Israeli and Palestinian Perspectives
Apr 30	Technology and the New Economy
Apr 29	From Natural Resources to Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership

Fall 2001
Oct 5	Globalization and the Current Economic Crisis
Oct 7	Mobilizing for Justice: Economic Development and the Living Wage
Oct 16	The September 11 Events: Causes, Impact and Aftermath
Oct 25	Convocation address: The Living Wage: Good Intentions and Economic Logic in Conflict?
Nov 8	Opening event for the Jacksonville Living Wage Campaign
Nov 13	Roundtable discussion: The Economic Implications of the Current International Crisis
Dec 6	The Impact of September 11th and the Afghan War on the Global Economy
Dec 7	PERI Conference on Financialization and the Global Economy
Dec 18	The Path to U.S. Recession: From Clinton to Bush to September 11

Spring 2001
Feb 15	Repeal of Glass-Steagall: What is the Point of U.S. Financial Deregulation?
Mar 2	Natural Assets Conference
Mar 27	Shared Work/Valued Care: New Norms for Organizing Market Work and Unpaid Care Work
Mar 29	The Anti-Sweatshop Movement: Good Intentions and Economic Logic in Conflict?
Apr 27	"The Acequia Commonwealth: A Landscape Ecology for Environmental Justice"
May 17	The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values
Jun 8	Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income
Jun 26	Crop Genetic Diversity and Rural Livelihoods
Jul 12	"Ecological Economics and Political Economy: Why the Twain Should Meet,"

Fall 2000
Oct 13	The Evolution of Inequality in the Age of Globalization: New Evidence from Old Data
Oct 20	Democratizing Global Economic Governance as part of the Development, Peacebuilding and the Environment Program.
Oct 27	Finance and Investment: Evidence From Africa and Around the World, and Policy Implications.
Oct 31	Globalization, Rural Institutions, and Poverty in Africa

Spring 2000
Jan 21	Natural Assets Conference

Spring 2012
Mar 6	Is Imperialism a Useful Concept in an Age of Financial Globalization?
Mar 6	The Nature of Modern Russian Capitalism
Mar 7	Capitalism Today: Lessons from Europe
Mar 9	The Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index
Mar 13	Census-Taking and State-Building: The Political Economy of Population Data
Mar 27	Deus Ex Machina: Testing the Fundamentals of the Canon on Financial Markets, a Multivariate Approach
Mar 30	Access and Inequality in Local Food Systems
Apr 3	The Agrarian Question in a Maoist Guerrilla Zone
Apr 10	Erasing class/(re)creating Ethnicity: Politics, Jobs, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya
Apr 13	Adaptation, Human Security, and Development in Gambella
Apr 16	Globalization of Labor: Is A Race to the Bottom Inevitable?
Apr 20	Rio Plus 20
Apr 23	Profit Rates and Crisis in the US Economy: Long Run and Short Run Perspectives
Apr 24	Pluralism and the Integration of Macro and Micro
Apr 27	Sustainable Development in Georgia
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