The Economics Department has a wide variety of workshops offered throughout the Spring and Fall semesters that are open to the public. The workshop schedules are posted each semester. Announcements are made on the home page during the week the presentation will be held.
In addition to these workshops, there are a number of working groups in the department. The seminars for these groups can be found in the Graduate Academics section.
- Political Economy Workshops
- Economic History and Development Workshops
- Applied Microeconomics Workshops
- Economic Theory Workshops
Spring 2023 Workshop Schedule
All times are Eastern Time
Political Economy Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker (s) | Title |
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February 28, 4:00pm Crotty Hall 209 |
Carl Nightingale, Professor Emeritus SUNY Buffalo |
Our Urban Planet: Exploring 'Deep Historical' Roots for Political Economy Carl Nightingale, Professor Emeritus of Urban History and World History SUNY Buffalo, and Coordinator of the Global Urban History Project (And former Prof. of History at UMass Amherst) |
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March 21 Online via Zoom (Meeting ID 998 6171 4302) |
Göran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge | Topic The Concept, the Dialectics, and a Possible End. Three reflections on Capitalism |
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March 28, 4:00pm Online via Zoom (Meeting ID 998 6171 4302) |
Gerald Horne. Holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. |
On "Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880. By W.E.B. Du Bois." On the 155th anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' birth. Co-sponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies and the Political Economy Workshop of the Department of Economics. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. |
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April 18, 4:00pm Online via Zoom (Meeting ID 998 6171 4302) |
Dylan Riley, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and Robert Brenner, Professor Emeritus of History at UCLA | Seven Theses on American Politics |
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May 2, 4:00pm Crotty Hall 209 |
Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Associate Professor of Economics at UMass Amherst | Class and Inequality in China and India (1950-2010): A Comparative Political Economy |
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May 16, 4:00pm Online via Zoom (Meeting ID 998 6171 4302) |
Rachel Sherman, Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research
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Class Traitors: One-Percenters for Radical Redistribution |
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Economic History and Development Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
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April 13, 4:00pm Crotty Hall 209 and Zoom (ID 947 3523 2375) |
Rishabh Kumar, University of Massachusetts Boston |
Development and exploitation from a Marxist perspective: evidence from 43 countries over 2000-2014 (in collaboration with Applied Microeconomic Workshop) |
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April 19, 4:00pm Crotty Hall 209 and Zoom (ID 947 3523 2375) |
Paige Glotzer, University of Wisconsin Madison | How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 |
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April 26, 4:00pm Crotty Hall 209 and Zoom (ID 947 3523 2375) |
Clara Mattei, New School University | The capital order: How economists invented austerity and paved the way for Fascism |
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Applied Microeconomics Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
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March 29, 4:00pm Crottty Hall 209 |
Elisabeth Perlman, US Census Bureau and Wei Yang Tham, Harvard University) | The Effect of Funding Delays on the Research Workforce: Evidence From Tax Records |
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April 13, 4:00pm Crotty Hall 209 and Zoom (ID 947 3523 2375) |
Rishabh Kumar, University of Massachusetts Boston |
Development and exploitation from a Marxist perspective: evidence from 43 countries over 2000-2014 (in collaboration with History & Development Workshop) |
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May 10, 4:00pm Crottty Hall 209 |
Lucie Schmidt, Smith College | Topic TBA |
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Economic Theory Workshops
All session will be on Zoom. Invitations to join each session will be sent the morning of the session. Contact Donald Katzner (dkatzner@econs.umass.edu) to register or with questions.
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
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February 22 4:00pm Zoom |
Peter Skott, UMass |
Endogenous Business Cycles and Economic Policy |
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March 27, 4:00pm Zoom |
Gregor Semieniuk, UMass |
Energy Expenditure and Consumptions Aspects of Energy Rebound: A Rigorous Analytical Framework |
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April 10, 4:00pm Zoom |
Sam Bowles UMass and Katrin Schmelz University of Konstanz |
Institutions Affect Preferences: Control Aversion under Liberal and Authoritarian |
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May 1, 4:00pm Zoom |
Iryna Bobukh, UMass |
Economic Warfare and Russian Aggression in Ukraine |
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May 15, 4:00pm Zoom |
Itai Sher, UMass | Topic: TBA |
