Political Economy Workshop

Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Fall 2009 Schedule

 

 

Sept. 22*+ Ajit Singh, Cambridge University
Does Fast Growth in India and China Harm US Workers? Insights from SimulationAnalysis"

 

Sept. 23*+=

Ajit Singh, Cambridge University
"Anti-LLSV?  Results from the Cambridge Research on Law,  Finance and Development"
 

Sept. 29

Minqi Li, University of Utah
"Socialization of Risks without Socialization of Investment: A Marxian-Minskian Analysis of Big Government Capitalism"
 

Oct. 13

Patrick Mason, Florida State University
"Culture and Identity Matters: America’s African Diaspora and Labor Market Outcomes"
 

Oct. 27

Wei Zhang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"The impacts of Public Employment on Health and Health Inequalities - Evidence from Micro Data"
 

Nov. 10#

Ozgur Orhangazi, Roosevelt University
"Contours of Alternative Policy Making in Venezuela"
 

Nov. 17

Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"A Financial Precautionary Principle: New Rules for Financial Product Safety"
 

Dec. 1

Deepankar Basu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"The Political Economy of Socialist Industrialization"
 

 

* Co-sponsored with PERI , the Economic Theory Workshop, and the History and Development Workshop.

# Co-sponsored with the Economic Theory Workshop

+ Meets in Gordon Hall, 3rd floor conference room.

= Wednesday meeting

 

All meetings of the Political Economy Workshop will take place on Tuesdays at 4:00 P.M. in the 9th floor conference room of Thompson Hall (unless otherwise noted) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Papers should be available one week before the presentation date at the following website location: http://courses.umass.edu/econ804/.

The convener of the workshop for fall 2009 is David Kotz. Questions about the workshop can be addressed to him at 413-545-0739 or dmkotz@econs.umass.edu.