Events
Economic Justice Speaker Series
Michael Heinrich. “Today’s Political Value of Marx’s Theory of Value”
Room 9.64 NB John Jay College 524 West 59th StreetMichael Heinrich is a German historian of philosophy, political scientist, and mathematician, specializing in the critical study of the development of Marx's thought. He has written in depth on Marx’s critique of political economy in his book, The Science of Value. His An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital is probably the ... Read more
Gerald Epstein. Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us
Room L2.85 John Jay College 524 West 59th StreetGerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and a Founding Codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of The Political Economy of Central Banking: Contested Control and the Power of Finance. His new book, Busting the Bankers' Club, recently published by the University of California Press ... Read more
Isabella Weber. Prices, Inflation, and Survival in an Age of Emergencies: Why We Need a New Paradigm
Moot Court 6.68 NB 524 W 59th St, New York, New YorkPart of our Economic Justice Speaker Series Isabella M. Weber is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University, and a Fellow of the OSF Ideas Workshop. Her next book, ESSENTIAL: Inflation, Profits and Survival in an Age of Emergencies, will be ... Read more
Benjamin Barson. Concert and Book Launch: Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons
Room 9.64 NB John Jay College 524 West 59th StreetJoin us to celebrate the launch of Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons. This book recasts the birth of jazz, and unearths vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Black brass bands rehearsed ... Read more
Yonit Manor-Percival. Post-Colonial Globalization: Law, Power, and Actors in the 21st Century
John Jay College 524 West 59th StreetYonit Manor-Percival is a solicitor of England and Wales who lectures at the Centre of Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London and is a research associate at SOAS. Her main research interests are in international law, foreign investment law and the interface between national and international law, society and corporations within the framework ... Read more
Clara Mattei: The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
L2.84 NB"In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below. Mattei traces modern austerity to its origins in interwar Britain and Italy, revealing how the threat of working-class power in the years after World ... Read more
Kirstin Munro. Ordinary Business: Mundane Economics and the Production of Everyday Life
John Jay College 524 West 59th StreetKirstin Munro is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. Based on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, Munro's Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households: Compromise, Conflict, Complicity describes what happens when people make interventions into mundane and easy-to-overlook aspects of everyday life to bring the way ... Read more
Is Democracy Possible Under Capitalism? Roundtable with Richard Wolff
John Jay College 524 West 59th StreetA roundtable with Rick Wolff and friends reflecting on the recent elections in the US and looking beyond elections.