The struggle for life is taking new and interesting twists in Puerto Rico. The last few months have seen an escalation in the confrontation between those that want to preserve the status quo and those that wanted to explore alternative roads with the November 5th election.
Lygia Sabbag-Fares participates in a panel on ” Value Theory and Social Reproduction of Capital”
Andrej Markovčič (John Jay MA alumnus) interviewed Arthur MacEwan and Zoe Sherman, editors of Dollars & Sense magazine on the history of “popular economics” for Jacobin Magazine.
Monetary policy once followed a clear logic: higher interest rates led to lower inflation by curbing spending and wage growth. But the 2007–2009 financial crisis and its sluggish recovery challenged this view, sparking new debates on inflation and economic policy.
Professor Zhun Xu presented his research at the 14th International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) Conference in Istanbul.
Isabella M. Weber, an Associate Professor of Economics at UMass Amherst, researches inflation and economic policy. Her upcoming book, ESSENTIAL: Inflation, Profits and Survival in an Age of Emergencies, will be published in 2026 and translated into seven languages
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