Events
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.
Is There Life on Marx? Capital as a theory of exploitation and as a theory of crisis
Haaren Hall Room 335With Riccardo Bellofiore, Former Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy) The seminar will present a quick overview of the content of Capital, showing that it is at the same time a theory of impersonal domination and of class domination in capitalism. In the argument money is a constituent of value and ... Read more