John Jay economics student Paul E. Williams ’22 MA published the piece “Social Asset Building with the American Rescue Plan” on the People’s Policy Project website. As he writes, “Aid packages like ARP are relatively rare, and local governments should take full advantage of the opportunity to expand public ownership and public options for basic human services.”
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J. W. Mason on financing the Green New Deal
On May 20, 2021, associate professor J. W. Mason participated in a panel on “Investment and Decarbonization” hosted by the Jain Family Institute.
Prison Labor in U.S. State Prisons, 1974-2016: New Slavery or Enforced Idleness?
Michelle Holder on her recent paper, “The Double Gap and the Bottom Line: African American Women’s Wage Gap and Corporate Profits.”
JOHN JAY’S ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT EARNS HIGH SCORE ON FEDERAL RESERVE’S ECONOMIC EDUCATION INCLUSION INDEX
Christian Parenti sits down with Book Salon to discuss his latest book on Alexander Hamilton
In this episode, Christian Parenti discusses his book ‘Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder’, where he rewrites the history of early America and the global economy. For much of the twentieth century, Hamilton—sometimes seen as the bad boy of the founding fathers or portrayed as the patron saint of bankers—was out of fashion. In contrast his rival Thomas Jefferson, the patrician democrat and slave owner who feared government overreach, was claimed by all. But more recently, Hamilton has become a subject of serious interest again.