Political Economy Workshop
Spring 2010
 

         
*#February 2
Thompson Hall
  Jennifer Taub
Isenberg School, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Enablers of Exuberance
         
*February 12
Thompson Hall
  Teresa Ghilarducci
New School for Social Research
 

The Political Economy of Retirement and Work

         
#February 16
Thompson Hall
  Gerard Dumenil
University of Paris
  Neo-liberalism, Financialization and The Economic Crisis
     
*February 23
Gordon Hall
  Jane D'Arista
PERI, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  The Monetary Threat to the Global Economy
         
#March 2
Thompson Hall
  William Lazonick
University of Massachusetts Lowell
  The Fragility of the U.S. Economy
         
*March 9
Gordon Hall
  William Black
University of Missouri, Kansas City
  Why Neoclassical Economics and Modern Finance Create Perfect Environments for Perfect Crimes, Bubbles, and Crises    Paper 1    Paper 2
         
#March 11
Thompson Hall
  Perry Mehrling
Barnard College
  The New Lombard Street
         
#March 23
Thompson Hall
  Deepankar Basu
University of Massachusetts Amherst
  An Econometric Analysis of the General Rate of Profit for the US Economy
         
*April 6
Gordon Hall
  Jayati Ghosh
JNU University and Ideas Network
  Financialization and Commodity Prices
         
*April 13
Gordon Hall
  Rob Parenteau
MacroStrategy Review
  Anticipating Financial Stability: What Went Wrong?
         
* **April 26
Thompson Hall
  Tom Ferguson
University of Massachusetts Boston
Rob Johnson
Roosevelt Institute
  Too Big to Bail: The 'Paulson Put', Presidential Politics and The Financial Meltdown
         
#April 27
Thompson Hall
  David Kotz
University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Structural Crisis or Great Recession?: Understanding the Current Crisis
         
*#May 4
Gordon Hall
  Ilene Grabel
University of Denver
Graduate School of International Affairs
  Productive Incoherence In an Uncertain World: Financial Governance, Policy Space and Development After the Global Crisis


All Seminars meet at 4 PM.  They will meet either in the 9th floor seminar room of Thompson Hall, or in the Gordon Hall conference room. 

When and if available, papers will be posted at:  http://courses.umass.edu/econ804

Information about the Econ 804 graduate course is available here.

For further information, contact Gerald Epstein

  # Regular PE Workshop
  * Co-Sponsored with PERI
** Co-Sponsored with Economic Theory Workshop