The Failure of the Obama Recovery, OR, How We Got Trump

Michael Meeropol is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Western New England University and author of Surrender:How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution and Principles of Macroeconomics: Activist vs. Austerity Policies.

Jared Ragusett is Associate Professor of Economics at Central Connecticut State University and holds a UMass Amherst Economics PhD. He is author of Understanding the Great Recession: A Pluralist Approach to U.S. Capitalism in the 21st Century.

This event is presented by PERI and the UMass Amherst Economics Department “History and Political Economy Workshop.”