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 York

Part 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 […]

Benjamin Barson. Concert and Book Launch: Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons

Room 9.64 NB John Jay College 524 West 59th Street

Join 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 […]

Yonit Manor-Percival. Post-Colonial Globalization: Law, Power, and Actors in the 21st Century

John Jay College 524 West 59th Street

Yonit 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 […]

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 […]

Kirstin Munro. Ordinary Business: Mundane Economics and the Production of Everyday Life

John Jay College 524 West 59th Street

Kirstin 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 […]