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Fidan Ana Kurtulus, professor of economics and co-director of the UMass Center for Employment Equity, spoke at the US Senate on April 9, 2025, on the economic benefits of broad-based employee equity ownership, wherein workers have an ownership stake in the company where they work.  Her remarks outlined what the research evidence has to say on how employee ownership can strengthen the US economy.  Professor Kurtulus has done extensive research over the past two decades showing that employee ownership increased labor productivity, employment stability, and firm survival, and has authored the

Jayati Ghosh, economics, delivered "Power, Control, and Democracy in the 21st Century," the 2025 Heilbroner Lecture at the New School on April 29. 

 

"Decolonial Reconstellations"
A new three-volume series co-edited by Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji, economics, is receiving acclaim from across the disciplines: "The volumes offer a rare multi-dimensional approach to decoloniality that opens up new avenues of exploration" (James Ogude, University of Pretoria).
Vol 1 https://www.routledge.com/Dynamics-of-Deep-Time-and-Deep-Place-Decolonial-Reconstellations-Volume-One/Doyle-Gikandi-waGithinji/p/book/9781032848754
Vol 2 https://www.routledge.com/Dissolving-Master-Narratives-Decolonial-Reconstellations-Volume-Two/Doyle-Gikandi-waGithinji/p/book/9781032848822

Decolonial Reconstellations: A 3-volume edited series Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji, economics and founding co-director of the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project, is co-editor of the series comprised of Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place, Dissolving Master Narratives, and Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy.

Featuring labor economist David Card, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Card won the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for work that challenged orthodoxy and dramatically shifted understanding of inequality and the social and economic forces that impact low-wage workers. His research focuses on topics such as immigration, minimum wage, and inequality. 

In a piece for Jacobin, Robert Pollin, discusses how Noam Chomsky has used his global platform to sound the alarm about the climate crisis and chart a path away from disaster. 

Jayati Ghosh, writes in a new op-ed in the Bangkok Post that should the US leave the UN, "the absence of the US -- which has all too often acted as a spoiler, even under previous administrations -- could pave the way for more ambitious and effective global agreements." 

Isabella Weber, has been named a Climate Policy Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. As one of 11 fellows in the think tank’s winter 2025 cohort, Weber will focus on researching policies to facilitate fossil fuel wind-down and economic stability.

Gerald Epstein, was selected as a finalist for the 2025 PROSE Award in Economics for his book "Busting the Bankers' Club."