Political Economy Workshop


*#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

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

Political Economy Workshop Spring 2010

Political Economy Workshop
Spring 2010