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.
Spring 2019 Schedule
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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Tuesday February 26** 4:00 pm |
Kate Bahn
Melissa Mahoney |
Do TRAP Laws Trap Women into Bad Jobs? |
|
Tuesday |
Eric Hoyt |
The Impact of Wrongful Discharge Laws on Wages: 1979-2014 |
|
Tuesday March 19** 4:00 pm |
Felicia Kornbluh |
Why Couldn't Feminists Change the Law? Welfare Reform, Gender, and Political Ideas in Modern America |
|
Tuesday March 26 4:00 pm |
Adaman Fikret |
Ecological Economics: Retrospects and Prospects |
|
Tuesday April 9** 4:00 pm |
Leanne Ronccolato Franklin & Marshall College |
Underground Employment: Analyzing the Job Quality of New York City Subway |
|
Tuesday |
Armagan Gezici Keene State University |
Market Power and the Use of New Technologies in U.S. Industries |
|
Tuesday April 23* 4:00 pm |
Victor Grossman Stephen Wechsler |
A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx_Allee |
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Tuesday April 30** 4:00 pm |
Sara Cantillon WiSE Centre for Economic Justice |
Economic Autonomy within Households |
* co-sponsored by the UMass Social Thought and Political Economy Program (STPEC)
** co-sponsored by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), Gender and Care Work Program
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.