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Joel Tickner: Reimagining the Chemical Industry

October 24, 2025 at 4 pm ET to 5:30 pm ET

Professor Joel Tickner discusses the future of the chemical industry in the U.S. and prospects for increasing technical, ecological, and economic sustainability.

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Juliet Schor: Does the Future of Work Mean Less Work? The Movement for a Four-Day Week

October 20, 2025 at 4 pm ET to 5:30 pm ET

Juliet Schor is an economist and Professor of Sociology at Boston College. In 2022 she became the lead researcher for pathbreaking trials studying hundreds of companies instituting four day, thirty-two hour workweeks with five days’ pay. The research, which is ongoing, finds large improvements in well-being outcomes and success for the participating organizations. Her book, Four Days a Week (HarperBusiness, 2025), details these findings.

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Juliet Schor

Vamsi Vakulabharanam: Class and Inequality in China and India, 1950-2010

September 30, 2025 at 4 pm ET to 5:30 pm ET

Vamsi Vakulabharanam is an Associate Professor of Economics at UMass Amherst. In this book talk, he will provide a comparative analysis of the patterns of growth and inequality in China and India between 1950 and 2010, giving a special focus to class perspectives. He will also analyze inequality in these countries within the larger contexts of Asian and global capitalism.

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Vamsi Vakulabharanam

Translating Capital for the 21st Century

May 12, 2025 at 4 pm EDT to 5:30 pm EDT

Karl Marx’s magnum opus Capital, first published in 1867, remains one of the most influential books in the history of economics. A new English translation from the German original was recently published by Princeton University Press. This workshop brings together the book’s translator, Paul Reitter, and editor, Paul North, as well as three leading interpreters of Marx to discuss the significance of Capital for 21st century readers.

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