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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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