This seminar meets 6 to 10 times a semester. Graduate students and faculty from the Economics Department and from elsewhere present papers on a range of topics in political economy.
Fall 2018 Schedule
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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Wednesday September 12* 4:00 pm |
Brian Callaci |
Vertical Power and the Creation of a Fissured Workplace: The Case of Franchising |
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Friday **Gordon Hall 3rd Floor** |
Tithi Bhattacharya |
What Did Marx Have to Say About Cooking Dinner? Marxism and Gender in the Twenty-First Century |
|
Tuesday October 2 4:00 pm |
Deepankar Basu |
Marx’s Analysis of Ground-Rent: Theory, Examples and Applications |
|
Tuesday October 16 4:00 pm |
Lopa Banjeree |
Social Class and Disaster Exposure |
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Tuesday October 30 4:00 pm |
David Kotz UMass Amherst |
The Trade War in Historical Perspective |
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Friday **Gordon Hall 3rd Floor** |
Jayati Ghosh Jawaharlal Nehru University |
Time Poverty and the Poverty of Economics |
|
Tuesday November 27 4:00 pm |
Paulo Dos Santos
Noé M. Wiener |
By the Content of Their Character? Social Identity, Discrimination, and the Determinations of Income |
|
Tuesday December 4 4:00 pm |
Lenore Palladino Roosevelt Institute and Smith College |
Corporate Finance and Wages: A Missing Link |
* co-sponsored by the UMass Applied Microeconomics Workshop
** co-sponsored by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)
Room 209
Crotty Hall
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Papers should be posted at least one week prior to presentation.
For further information, contact Professor Moos at kmoos@umass.edu.