The Failure of the Obama Recovery, OR, How We Got Trump

Michael Meeropol is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Western New England University and author of Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution and Principles of Macroeconomics: Activist vs. Austerity Policies.

Jared Ragusett is Associate Professor of Economics at Central Connecticut State University and holds a UMass Amherst Economics PhD. He is author of Understanding the Great Recession: A Pluralist Approach to U.S. Capitalism in the 21st Century.

This event is organized and sponsored by the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy (EIPAD) and the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI).