Farmers' Protests and the Political Economy of Modi's India
PERI's Asian Political Economy Program hosts a panel discussion with Barbara Harriss-White, Jayati Ghosh, Navsharan Singh, Surinder Jodhka, and CP Chandrasekhar. The even is chaired by Smriti Rao with discussants Sirisha Naidu and Vamsi Vakulabharanam.
March 4, 9:00 – 11:30 am EST
Past Events
Prospects for Peace and Justice in Israel and Palestine
PERI, the Boston Review and Standing Together welcome Sally Abed, Noam Chomsky, Alon-lee Green, Congressman Jim McGovern and Dr. James Zogby, President of the Arab-American Institute, for a panel discussion on the prospects for peace and justice in Israel and Palestine. This event will be moderated by Omar Dahi.
December 9, 5pm EST
How to Curate a Course: International Economics
Young Scholars Initiative Workshop: Early Career Days
PERI's Jayati Ghosh is one of several panel speakers during Institute for New Economic Thinking sponsored workshop.
November 19, 9:30am
Social Policy in an Unequal World:
Opening Keynote Address for Conference on "Social Policy in Africa 2021"
PERI's Jayati Ghosh presents the keynote address during the Social Policy in Africa Conference.
University of South Africa and Codesria, November 22, 2021
November 22
Book Launch Webinar:
How China Escaped Shock Therapy
Panel discussion on Isabella Weber's new book "How China Escaped Shock Therapy"
PANELISTS:
James K Galbraith, University of Texas Austin
Branko Milanović, CUNY
R. Bin Wong, UCLA
HOST: Zhongjin Li, University of Missouri- Kansas City, PERI
THURSDAY, May 27 at 2pm (EDT)
Webinar:
Climate Crisis: Transitioning Away from a Carbon-Based Economy
THE ANNUAL FREEDMAN LECTURE
PANELISTS:
Robert Pollin, PERI, UMass Amherst
Samantha Gross, Brookings Institution
Jacopo Buongiorno, MIT
THURSDAY, APRIL 22 at 12:30pm (EDT)
The Annual Freedman Lecture is funded by Robert Rosen ’69 and Nancy Rosen ‘70 and is named for Ms. Rosen’s parents, Max and Ruth Freedman.
Book Launch/Panel Discussion Webinar:
Do Formalisation Policies Help Women Workers?
PERI's Jayati Ghosh moderates a discussion with eminent feminist economists on the book
“Informal Women Workers in the Global South."
PANELISTS:
Martha Chen, Professor, Harvard University, USA;
Diane Elson, Professor Emerita, University of Essex, UK;
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Professor Emerita, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
TUESDAY, APRIL 6 at 7:30am (EDT)
11.30am (GMT), 5.00pm (IST), 6.30pm (Thailand time)
Event will be recorded. Check back for link.
Zoom Webinar Link (this link will work at the start of the webinar-see above for times):
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99018472452
Sponsored by PERI and IDEAs
Green New Deal: Prospects for a Low Carbon Future
During a live webcast, PERI's Robert Pollin offers tangible and realistic policy proposals that address the climate crisis and ensure a just transition from a predominantly fossil fuel based society to a net zero one.
Monday, March 8, 2:00pm EST (19:00 GMT)
This event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Oxford Climate Society.
Political Economy Workshop Series
Spring 2021
These online workshops are sponsored by the UMass Amherst Dept. of Economics
>> Click here to register and to learn more.
Nancy Folbre Book Launch Webinar
Join us for a live webinar as PERI's Nancy Folbre discusses her new book, Rise and Fall of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy.
February, 4:00pm
This event is co-sponsored by PERI and the UMass Amherst Economics Dept. Political Economy Workshop series.
It will be live and recorded on Zoom, Facebook and YouTube.
The Just Transition in America's Zero Carbon Action Plan
PERI's Robert Pollin and Jeannette Wicks-Lim discuss their chapter (co-authored with Shouvik Chakraborty) in America's Zero Carbon Action Plan. They address how to achieve a just transition for fossil fuel workers while reaching zero-carbon emissions.
November 10, 3:00pm
Environmental Policy in Historical Perspective
PERI's Robert Pollin is featured in a panel discussion with Bill McKibben, Ashwin Ravikumar, Thea Riofrancos and Eve Vogel as part of UMass Amherst History Department's "Planet on a Precipice" series.
November 12, 6:00pm
This event will be live and recorded on Zoom, Facebook and YouTube.
Macroeconomic Policy in the Shadow of the Great Financial Crisis
Insights from Four Recent Books
Friday, Dec. 6: 9:30am-1:00pm
LBJ Washington Center
Washington, DC
Shouvik Chakraborty: Clean Energy Markets
"Facing the Future: Historical Perspectives on a Green New Deal"
Tuesday, Dec. 3: 5:30pm
Integrated Learning Center Room S231
UMass Amherst
James Boyce Book Talk:
"The Case for Carbon Dividends"
"Economics for the People & the Planet"
Thursday, November 21: 7:00pm
Amherst Books
8 Main St., Amherst, Mass.
Understanding the Climate Change-Security Nexus
Panel Discussion and Book Release
Anne Hendrixson: "Confronting Populationism: Challenging Scarcity Driven Narratives of Overpopulation"
Betsy Hartmann: The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War and Our Call to Greatness
Michael Klare: All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
Moderated by Omar Dahi, Visiting Fellow, PERI
Tuesday, November 5: 4:30pm
Copies of Professor Klare and Hartmann's new books will be available for sale.
Reception to Follow
UMass Amherst
Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
Daniel Ellsberg Lecture, "The Dollar Auction, Unendable Wars and Gambling with Catastrophe"
Tuesday, October 29: 4:00pm
Reception immediately after the completion of Dr. Ellsberg's lecture
UMass Amherst
Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
Screening of The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Panel Discussion after the screening with Daniel Ellsberg and Gar Alperovitz
Monday, October 28: 5:30-9:00pm
Buffet dinner will be served in Gordon Hall atrium prior to screening
UMass Amherst
Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
Asian Political Economy Inaugural Conference
April 13-14
Co-hosted by PERI, UMass Amherst Economics Department, UMass Amherst, and the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET).
UMass Amherst
Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
Quantifying Care: International Perspectives and Policy Implications
Xiao-Yuan Dong, University of Winnepeg
Maria Floro, American University
Jooyeoun Suh, American Association of Retired Persons
March 29, 2:00pm
Sponsored by PERI Program on Gender and Care Work
UMass Amherst
Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
Energy Revolution: The Physics and Promise of Efficient Technology
Mara Prentiss, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University
March 28, 4:00pm
UMass Amherst
Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
Do TRAP Laws Trap Women into Bad Jobs?
Kate Bahn, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Melissa Mahoney, University of North Carolina, Asheville
February 26, 4:00pm
Co-sponsored by UMass Amherst Economics Department Political Economy Workshop
UMass Amherst
Crotty Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
Mobilizing Economic Research to Address Socioeconomic and Racial Injustices
PERI's Jeannette Wicks-Lim is featured in panel discussion during symposium sponsored by Economic Policy Institute's Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy.
November 14, 12:30-4:30pm
Economic Policy Institute
Washington, DC
Brown Bag Talk—"Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership to the United States"
Thomas Hanna, Research Director of the Democracy Collaborative in Washington, DC, discusses his new book.
November 16, 12:30-2:00pm
UMass Amherst
Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
RSVP to Nicole Dunham:
Time Poverty and the Poverty of Economics
Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
November 9, 3:00pm
Sponsored by PERI Program on Gender and Care Work
UMass Amherst
Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
Capturing the Flag
Film screening and post-film panel discussion with UMass faculty and student leaders
October 11, 4:00pm
UMass Amherst
Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
What Did Marx Have to Say about Cooking Dinner?
Marxism and Gender in the Twenty-First Century
Tithi Bhattacharya, Professor of South Asian History and Director of Global Studies at Purdue University
September 28, 12:30pm
UMass Amherst
Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
The Subaltern Middle-Class
William A. Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
September 28, 2:00pm
UMass Amherst
Gordon Hall, Third Floor Conference Room
APPEAL Political Economy and the Law Workshop:
Connecting Ideas and Policies for Change
Cohosted and sponsored by PERI and APPEAL (Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law).
June 14-15
UMass Amherst
A Typology of Players: Between Instinctive and Contemplative
Ariel Rubinstein, Professor of Economics, University of Tel Aviv and New York University
March 26, 4:00pm
UMass Amherst
Climate Change Turns 30: Tribalism and Sustainability
Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Thursday, January 25, 4:00pm
UMass Amherst
PERI Speaker Series: The Right Wing Assault on American Democracy
Perry Anderson, Distinguished Professor, Department of History, UCLA; former editor of the New Left Review
Neo-Liberalism and Its Fall-Out
April 11, 4:00pm
UMass Amherst
William Spriggs, Professor of Economics, Howard University; Chief Economist, AFL-CIO
All of Us or None of Us: Inequality, Race, Class and the Crisis in Our "Democracy"
December 4, 4:00pm
UMass Amherst
Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy, Duke University
Democracy in Chains
November 13, 4:30pm
UMass Amherst
Jennifer Taub, Professor, Vermont Law School
Reinventing Law and Economics
November 1, 4:00pm
UMass Amherst
Gordon Lafer, Professor, Labor Education & Research Center at University of Oregon
The One Percent Solution
October 16, 4:00pm
UMass Amherst
Carbon Pricing 101: Setting the Price and Allocating the Revenue
James Boyce, Professor, Economics Dept. and Director, Development, Peacebuilding and the Environment, UMass Amherst
November 2, 4:00pm
UMass Amherst
Invest in Minds Not Missiles: Resisting the Trillion-Dollar Nuclear Weapons Escalation
Jonathan King, Professor, Department of Biology, MIT
October 25, 4:00pm
UMass Amherst
Crotty Hall Celebration Conference:
"Political Economy at Crotty Hall: Ushering in the New, Remembering the Old"
A conference for Faculty, Students, Alumni, and Friends Of UMass Economics
April 28-29
UMass Amherst
Noam Chomsky Delivers Crotty Hall Inaugural Lectures
"Prospects for Survival"
April 13, 7:30 pm (doors open at 6:30)
Mullins Center (click here for directions)
UMass Amherst
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC- Seating is first-come first serve.
Leontief Prize Ceremony and Lecture
PERI's James Boyce receives Leontief Prize and delivers lecture on "Economics, Equity, and the Environment."
March 28, 1:30 pm
Tufts University
Medford, MA
