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 2018 Schedule
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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Tuesday February 20 4:00 pm |
Gabor Scheiring Cambridge University |
The Political Economy of Illiberal Democracy: A Relational Class Analysis of the Tensions Between Capitalism and Democracy in Hungary |
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Tuesday CANCELLED February 27* 4:00 pm |
Shahram Azhar Habib University, Karachi |
CANCELLED Political Power and Economic Monopoly: A Social Network Analysis of Corporate Post-Colonial Pakistan |
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Wednesday February 28* 4:00 pm |
S. Charusheela University of Washington Bothell |
Engendering Feudalism |
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Tuesday March 6 4:00 pm |
Amanda Page-Hoongrajok, Shouvik Chakraborty, Robert Pollin UMass Amherst |
Austerity Versus Green Growth for Puerto Rico |
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Tuesday March 20 4:00 pm |
Hendrik van den Berg UMass Amherst |
Standard International Trade Theory and the Corporate Dominance of International Trade: Explaining the Disconnect |
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Tuesday April 3 4:00 pm |
Omar Dahi Hampshire College |
The Political Economy of War and Post-Resettlement Reconstruction in Syria |
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Tuesday April 10 4:00 pm |
David Kotz UMass Amherst |
The Political Economy of the Trump Presidency |
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Tuesday April 24 4:00 pm |
Surbhi Kesar UMass Amherst |
Possibilities of Transformation: Analyzing the Informal Sector in India |
* Jointly sponsored by the History & Development Workshop
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.