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.
Fall Workshop Schedule
All times are Eastern Time
Political Economy / Economic History and Development Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
| September 17 4:00pm Watch the recording |
S. Charusheela, University of Washington, Bothell | The Westphalian Nation State as a Limit to Heterodox Economics |
| September 24 4:00pm (with PERI) Gordon Hall Register for Zoom Link |
Anwar Shaikh | Some Startling Patterns of the Empirical Distribution of Income by Race, Gender, and Classin the United States: An Econophysics Explanation |
| October 1 4:00pm (with PERI) Gordon Hall Register for Zoom Link |
Anwar Shaikh | |
| October 8 4:00pm Watch the recording |
William D. Ferguson , Grinnell College | Developmental Dilemmas: The Role of Power and Agency |
| October 17 4:00pm Crotty Hall Room 209 |
Mike Meeropol, Western New England University and John Jay College, retired | The Failure of the Obama Recovery, OR, How We Got Trump |
| October 21 4:00pm Crotty Hall Room 209 and Zoom |
Neri Salvadori, University of Pisa | Was It A “Fatal Error”? Sraffa and Samuelson on Marshall’s partial equilibria method joint with Econ Theory workshop |
| October 22 4:00pm Crotty Hall Room 209 and Zoom |
Heinz Kurz, University of Graz | Adam Smith: Evolutionary Social Theorist Ante Litteram (On the Process of Civilization and Its Hazards) joint with Econ Theory workshop |
| November 19 4:00pm Crotty Hall Room 209 and Zoom |
Jaweid Nawabi | Why States Matter in Economic Development: The Socioeconomic Origins of Strong Institutions |
Labor & Applied Microeconomics Workshops
Please contact Chris Boone (cboone@umass.edu), Arin Dube (adube@umass.edu), or Ina Ganguli (iganguli@umass.edu) if you have any questions.
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
| October 2 4:00pm 209 Crotty Hall |
Kelly Ragan, Stockholm School of Economics | Empowerment or Immiseration? The Pill and a Century of Unwed Childbearing |
| October 16 4:00pm 209 Crotty Hall |
Owen Thompson, Williams College | The Long-Run Impacts of Court-Ordered Desegregation |
| October 23 4:00pm 209 Crotty Hall |
Martin Ljunge, Research Institute of Industrial Economics | Immigrants, Neighborhoods, and the Stock Market |
| November 4 4:00pm 209 Crotty Hall |
Jasmine Kerrissey, UMass Sociology & Labor Center | Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the US Labor Movement |
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. When and if available, papers will be posted here.
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
| October 7 4:00pm 209 Crotty Hall |
William D. Ferguson, Grinnell College | Collective Action Problems and Institutional Entrepreneurship as Microfoundations of Political Economy |
| October 15 4:00pm 209 Crotty Hall |
Sam Bowles, UMass and Katrin Schmelz, Tech. U. of Denmark | Climate Policy Design with Endogenous Environmental Preferences: Pitfalls and Opportunities for Promoting Green Lifestyles |
| October 21 4:00pm 209 Crotty Hall and Zoom |
Neri Salvadori, University of Pisa | Was It a ‘Fatal Error’? Sraffa and Samuelson on Marshal’s Partial Equilibrium Method joint with the History and Political Economy Workshop |
| October 22 4:00pm 209 Crotty Hall and Zoom |
Heinz Kurz | Adam Smith: Evolutionary Social Theorist Ante Litteram (On the Process of Civilization and Its Hazards) joint with the History and Political Economy Workshop |
| November 4 4:00pm 209 Crotty Hall |
Deepankar Basu, UMass | Technical Change and the Rate of Profit in Classical-Marxian Models of Economic Growth |
| November 18 4:00pm 209 Crotty Hall |
Alex Coram, University of West Australia | Systems of Technology and Growth Paths to Zero Emissions in Electricity Generation |
| December 9 4:00pm 209 Crotty Hall |
Naoki Yoshihara, UMass |
Generic Indeterminacy of Steady State, Competitive Equilibria in Walras-von Neuman, Production Economies |