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 2017 Schedule
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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Tuesday Sept 12 4:00 pm |
Deepankar Basu, Sam Bowles, David Kotz, Bob Pollin, Vamsi Vakulabharanam UMass Amherst |
Round Table on Marx’s Capital Volume I |
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Tuesday Sept 19 4:00 pm |
Stefano Di Buccianico Roma Tre University |
Some Notes on the Secular Stagnation Hypothesis |
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Tuesday Sept 26 4:00 pm |
Sara Hsu State University of New York at New Paltz |
The Financial Crisis of 2008 |
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Tuesday Oct 3 4:00 pm |
Eric Kemp-Benedict Stockholm Environmental Institute |
The Treadmill of Progress: Biased Technological Change, Distribution, and Natural Resources |
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Monday Oct 16 * 4:00 pm |
Gordon Lafer University of Washington |
How Corporations are Remaking America One State at a Time |
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Tuesday Oct 17 4:00 pm |
Kim Christiansen Sarah Lawrence College |
The Social Structures of Accumulation and the Labor Movement: A Brief History and a Modest Proposal |
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Tuesday Nov 14 4:00 pm |
Vamsi Vakulabharanam UMass Amherst Sripad Motiram UMass Boston |
Caste, Class, and the Production of City Space |
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Tuesday Nov 28 4:00 pm |
Daniele Girardi UMass Amherst |
Allende’s Election, Pinochet’s Coup, and the Santiago Stock Market |
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Tuesday Dec 5 4:00 pm |
Sonja Novkovic St. Mary’s Univeristy, Halifax |
Cooperatives in Theory and Practice |
* Jointly sponsored by the Political Economy Research Institute
Room 209
Crotty Hall
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Papers should be posted at least one week prior to presentation.
For further information, contact Professor Kotz at dmkotz@econs.umass.edu.