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.
Spring Workshop Schedule
All times are Eastern Time
Labor & Applied Microeconomics Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
| March 26, 4:00pm Crotty 209 |
Jasmine Kerrissey, UMass Sociology & Labor Center | Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the US Labor Movement |
| April 16, 4:00pm Crotty 209 |
Nathan Wilmers, MIT Sloan | Corporate Minimum Wages and Working Poverty |
| April 30, 4:00pm Crotty 209 |
Sahar Parsa, NYU | Mentorship and the Gender Gap in Academia |
| May 6, 4:00pm Crotty 209 |
Trevon Logan, Ohio State University | Competition and Consumer Discrimination **Joint with History and Political Economy Workshop** |
History and Political Economy Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
| February 18, 4:00pm Recording |
Warren Whatley, University of Michigan | Slavery, Development, and Freedom, How Africa Became the Mirror Image of Europe |
| March 4, 4:00pm 4:00pm CANCELLED |
Katherine Moos and Noé Wiener UMass | U.S. Teachers, Overwork, and Perceptions of Work-Time Reductions: Evidence from Massachusetts |
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March 11, 4:00pm |
Prabhat Patnaik | The Crisis of Neo-Liberalism and Its Sequel |
| March 25, 4:00pm Recording |
Bob Pollin, UMass coauthors: Jeanette Wicks-Lim and Peter Arno |
Socialized Healthcare in One State: The Economics of the New York Health Act |
| April 4, 12:30pm |
Charlotte Bez, New School co-sponsored with the Computational Social Science Institute |
Converging Visions, Contested Narratives: Media Discourse Analyses of South Africa’s Just Transition |
| April 8, 4:00pm Recording |
Paul Mattick | Understanding Inflation |
| April 22, 4:00pm Recording |
Sandeep Vaheesan, Open Markets Institute | Democracy in Power |
| May 6, 4:00pm Crotty 209 & zoom |
Trevon Logan, Ohio State coauthors: Maggie EC Jones, David Rose, and Lisa D. Cook co-sponsored with the Labor & Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
Competition and Consumer Discrimination |
| May 12, 4:00pm Gordon Hall Conference Room and Livestream (link posted soon) |
Beverly Best, Concordia co-sponsored with PERI, STPEC, and the Five College Lecture Fund |
Translating Capital for the 21st Century |
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 |
| February 24, 4:00pm Crotty 209 |
Gilberto Lima University of Sao Paulo |
Evolutionary Persistence of Heterogeneity in Unemployment Expectations across Workers in an Efficiency Wage Setting |
| March 10, 4:00pm Crotty 209 |
Michael Ash, UMass | Energy Assets, Energy Deprivation, and the Color of Wealth in Chicago |
| March 31, 4:00pm Crotty 209 |
Kevin Young, UMass | Are Elite Populations Interchangeable? |
| April 7, 4:00pm Crotty 209 |
James Heintz, UMass | Do Alternative Households Improve Paid Employment Outcomes? Comparative Analysis From Brazil |
| April 14, 4:00pm Crotty 209 |
Leonce Ndikumana, Umass Co-sponsored with the African Development Policy Program at PERI |
Capital Flight, Natural Resources, and Perverse Global Connections: Evidence from African Countries |
| April 28, 4:00pm Crotty 209 |
Bob Pollin, UMass | Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies for the Green Transition: Financing and Distribution Prospects |
| May 5, 4:00pm Crotty 209 |
Roberto Veneziani, Queen Mary University | Exploitation: Theory and Empirics |