Department of Economics, John Jay College, CUNY

Student Conference
2024-05-10 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | John Jay College, 524 West 59th Street
[10am-11am] Breakfast (Haaren Hall 336)
[11am-1pm] Presentations
[1pm-2pm] Lunch (Haaren Hall 336)
[2pm-4pm] Presentations
[4pm] Food and Party (Haaren Hall 336)
Paper topics and room numbers can be found in the conference program.

Gerald Epstein. Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us
2024-04-10 13:40 - 15:00 | Room L2.85, John Jay College 524 West 59th Street
Gerald 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 documents the promises and roadblocks of reforming our broken and unfair financial system.

Power for a Just Transition
2024-03-30 09:00 - 17:30 | John Jay College, 524 West 59th Street
Using Law and Political Economy as a guiding framework, this workshop will host emerging scholarship in conversation with academics and policymakers, working to identify innovative methods of analysis from law, economics, sociology, or policy that can interrogate and combat hegemonic and capitalist power.
Featuring keynote speakers Kate Aronoff (Writer for New Republic) and Isabel Estevez (Deputy Director of Industrial Policy and Trade at the Roosevelt Institute), this workshop will provide a specific lens on climate policy, addressing crucial questions about public intervention, industrial policy, and democratic governance in the face of climate catastrophe and authoritarian capitalism.
The event will also host a roundtable discussion on regulation, state action, and governance featuring Clara Mattei (New School), An Li (Sarah Lawrence), JW Mason (John Jay), and Jamee Moudud (Sarah Lawrence) moderated by Martha McCluskey (University of Buffalo).
Attendance is free and breakfast and lunch will be served complimentary for all conference attendees.
Register at
BIT.LY/APPEAL-SPRING24

Michael Heinrich. "Today's Political Value of Marx's Theory of Value"
2024-03-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Room 9.64 NB, John Jay College 524 West 59th Street
Michael 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 most popular introduction to Marx’s economic works in Germany.
