Professor Joel Tickner discusses the future of the chemical industry in the U.S. and prospects for increasing technical, ecological, and economic sustainability.
November 2, 2023 to November 4, 2023
This three-day conference will feature presentations by a range of labor organizers, policymakers and researchers. The speakers will present local, national, and international perspectives on questions…
September 22, 2023 to September 3, 2023
Jim Crotty was a beloved and revered Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for 40 years and a founding senior researcher at PERI. He was a brilliant and innovative…
September 18, 2023
On the 15th anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, PERI Co-Director Gerald Epstein participates in a panel discussion during the Better Markets conference, “Can Too Big to Fail Be Ended?” Epstein looks…
April 14, 2023 2:30 pm ET to 4:30 pm ET
Darwin’s theory of evolution is celebrated for its explanatory scope in biology, but was confined to the study of genetic evolution for most of the 20th century. The study of human cultural evolution…
March 31, 2023 2:45 pm ET to 5 pm ET
Africa’s Transformative Global Political Economy PERI Program Director Leonce Ndikumana gave a keynote address titled, “The African Free Trade Agreement: Will it Transform the African Global Economy?”…
December 2, 2022 to December 3, 2022
On December 2-3, 2022 PERI hosted the conference “Global Inflation Today: What Is to Be Done?” to explore the causes of the global inflation spike. Conference participants provided critical perspectives…
November 10, 2022 at 5 pm ET to 6:30 pm ET
Join panelists Robin Broad, John Cavanagh, Manuela Picq and moderator James K. Boyce for a discussion on how social movements and governments in many Latin American countries are rejecting the heavy emphasis…
July 9, 2021 at 9 am to 1 pm
The Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2008 (GFC) has cast a long shadow on the economic and political realities we confront today, as did the Great Depression of the 1930’s on the decades that followed.…
October 28, 2019 to October 29, 2019
Daniel Ellsberg made two presentations at PERI on October 28 and 29, 2019. The first included a screening of the documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and…
April 13, 2019
Professor Noam Chomsky of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the world-renowned linguist and public intellectual, delivered two lectures at UMass Amherst on Thursday, April 13, 2017.…
