Professor Joel Tickner discusses the future of the chemical industry in the U.S. and prospects for increasing technical, ecological, and economic sustainability.
October 24, 2025 at 4 pm ET to 5:30 pm ET
Free and open to the pubic. Joel Tickner is Professor of Public Health at UMass Lowell and a longtime leader of the world-famous UMass Lowell Toxics Use Reduction Institute. While the chemical industry…
October 20, 2025 at 4 pm ET to 5:30 pm ET
Free and open to the public 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…
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…
September 9, 2025 at 4 pm to 5:30 pm
Lenore Palladino is Associate Professor of Economics at UMass Amherst and author of Good Company: Economic Policy After Shareholder Primacy. She testified before Congress on the impacts of shareholder…
May 12, 2025 at 4 pm EDT to 5:30 pm EDT
Free and open to the public In person at UMass Amherst or LIVESTREAM at youtube.com/c/UMassEconomics/live Karl Marx’s magnum opus Capital, first published in 1867, remains one of the most influential books in the…
March 11, 2025 at 4 pm EST to 5:30 pm EST
Prabhat Patnaik is one of the most widely respected scholars of political economy and Marxist public intellectuals. He is Emeritus Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India where he taught from…
October 17, 2024 at 4 pm ET to 6 pm ET
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…
September 24, 2024 to October 1, 2024
Anwar Shaikh is the University in Exile Professor Emeritus of Economics at The New School for Social Research. Shaikh has made major contributions to the development of classical political economy on…
May 3, 2024 to May 5, 2024
This three-day conference will explore why the ongoing debt emergency remains unresolved, how it can worsen the climate crisis and alternative strategies for climate finance. Different sessions will consider…
November 16, 2023 at 4 pm ET to 6 pm ET
James Gustave “Gus” Speth joined the faculty of the Vermont Law School as Professor of Law in 2010. In addition to his position as Senior Fellow at the Democracy Collaborative, he is a…
