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2024 Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture with Cecilia Conrad CEO, Lever for Change

Economist Cecilia Conrad, the founder and chief executive officer of Lever for Change and senior advisor at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, will present the annual Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Thursday, April 18, at 5 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, with seating available on a first-come, first-served basis.
 
In her lecture, “Philanthropy, Wealth Redistribution and Equity,” Conrad will interrogate philanthropic practices that reinforce racialized inequality and explore evolving practices in the field of philanthropy to make giving more equitable. She will draw on her experience as an economist in academia & philanthropy to examine how race & gender impact economic status. 

The event will be lived streamed here | View the Poster

 

Fidan Kurtulus Research Cited in The Council of Economic Advisers Research in the 2024 Economic Report of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Economic Policy Priorities

Fidan Kurtulus research cited in The Council of Economic Advisers research in the 2024 Economic Report of the Biden-Harris Administration’s economic policy priorities. The topics covered in this year’s report include: The Benefits of Full Employment; The Year in Review and the Years Ahead; Population, Aging, and the Economy; Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing; International Trade and Investment Flows; Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition; and An Economic Framework for Understanding Artificial Intelligence. Fidan's research can be found in (Chapter 1, The Benefits of Full Employment) Read more...

Isabella Weber Featured in Spain's Newspaper, El Pais: ‘It’s time to cut rates’

Isabella Weber, one of the first to blame part of the recent inflation on corporate profit, is calling on central banks to change their monetary policy. Weber is perhaps the greatest emerging voice in the always fertile — and often neglected — field of economic heterodoxy. Isabella Weber was one of the first to blame much of the inflationary escalation of recent years on corporate margins, and today is calling on central banks to immediately lower rates. Read more...

Professor Emeritus James Boyce Wins First Global Inequality Research Award

Professor Emeritus James Boyce along with Bina Agarwal (University of manchester) win first Global Inequality Reasearch Award. In recent decades, the study of global inequalities has experienced a remarkable boom: economic, social and environmental inequalities have been the subject of a growing body of theoretical and empirical work, visible and influential throughout the world. The World Inequality Lab (WIL) and Sciences Po’s Center for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) have joined forces for the first edition of the Global Inequality Research Award (or GiRA), which aims to recognize every two years researchers from all disciplines who have made a significant contribution to the understanding of global inequalities. Read More...

Deepankar Basu and Kartik Misra (UMass Economics Alum) oped for the Hindustan Times, "Guarantee Procurement, not Just Minimum Prices"

Professor  Deepankar Basu and Kartik Misra (UMass Economics Alum) oped for the Hindustan Times. In November 2022, a year-long farmer protest movement forced the Union government to repeal the 2021 farm laws which de-regulated agricultural markets in India. Earlier this month, farmers returned to the streets to demand guaranteed minimum support prices (MSP) for their produce. By rejecting the government’s offer of a five-year guaranteed MSP for farmers who diversify to cotton, pigeon peas, black urad, red lentils and corn, farmers have reiterated their demand for legalised MSP and procurement for all 23 crops. Read more...

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Arindrajit Dube, On rising real wages, reduced inequality, and Bidenomics. Read more ...
 
Gerald Epstein, discusses his latest book In a video by the Institute for New Economic Thinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjdKEuZY18
 
Jayati Ghosh,  published an op-ed about challenges facing India’s employment market. “Without far-reaching reforms aimed at boosting employment and guaranteeing living wages, India will struggle to achieve genuine economic success,” she cautions. Project Syndicate. Read more...
 
Isabella Weber, was interviewed in Tagesspiegel about the debt brake and its impact on the German economy. Read More...
 
Arindrajit Dube, was interviewed about the benefits of full employment. “We gave up on full employment in the 1980s. That was really a mistake that gave up a lot for American workers,” Read more...
 
Jayati Ghosh, penned a commentary on the IMF's special drawing rights (SDRs) as an untapped resource to finance climate-mitigation projects across the developing world: “Given that SDRs are not a currency but rather a potential claim on a currency, they function as accounting units within the IMF and do not involve any issuance costs.” Read more...
 

Jayati Ghosh Receives the International Economics Association Fellow Award 2023,

Professor Jayati Ghosh, a founding member of IDEAs, has received the coveted 2023 Fellow Award of the International Economic Association (IEA). Awarded in recognition of “excellence in economic research, research-driven popular writing, and economic policymaking”, this annual fellowship is bestowed upon no more than 10 economists worldwide who have significantly contributed to the creation or dissemination of new ideas and high-quality policy work. Read more...

Gregor Semieniuk Co-Authors Climate Impact Report

Gregor Semieniuk Co-Authors Climate Impact Report is an author of the "10 New Insights in Climate Science 2023/2024" report coordinated by some of the world’s leading climate scientists and released at the COP28 climate summit. Semieniuk is a contributing author to Insight 2, on the topic of fossil fuel phase-outs. A rapid and managed fossil fuel phase-out is required to stay within the Paris Agreement target range. Read more ...

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