Video: A Capitalism Alternative? The Mondragon Cooperatives with Professor Fred Freundlich
Video: A Capitalism Alternative? The Mondragon Cooperatives with Professor Fred Freundlich
Posted by emilykawano on October 16th, 2011What Is Economics for? Interview With Economist Jerry Epstein
Posted by emilykawano on October 10th, 2011
Published on Truthout, Monday October, 10th 2011
by Leslie Thatcher at Truthout
The Center for Popular Economics longtime staff economist and founding Co-Director of the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute Gerald Epstein spoke with Truthout’s Leslie Thatcher on Thursday July 27 at Smith College about the history and role of progressive economists and the essential steps to right our economy so that it actually meets people’s needs.
(Photo: David Gray / Flickr)
Leslie Thatcher for Truthout: Jerry, [...] read more >
CPE’rs in Occupation Action
Posted by Sue Holmberg on October 6th, 2011CPE staff economists have been joining the Occupy protests in New York, Boston, and our home base of Amherst, Massachusetts. In fact, several members are organizing teach-ins to do what CPE loves best: demystifying economics to fuel social change.
Stay tuned for announcements about teach-ins happening in the next days, weeks and months that cover topics like “10 Phoney Facts about the US Economy: Keeping it Real for the 99%” and “The False Doctrine of Austerity.”
Let us know if you would [...] read more >
Obama Comes Out Swinging
Posted by Sue Holmberg on September 9th, 2011By Gerald Friedman, CPE Staff Economist
Last night, after a listless, dismal year during which the economy stalled and the Far Right set the fiscal agenda with their austerity cries, President Obama finally stepped up to the plate and demanded action to reduce depression-era levels of unemployment.
Specifically, he called on Congress to pump up the economy with nearly $450 billion of stimulus—including almost $240 billion in tax cuts and $200 billion in additional spending on infrastructure. (At over 3% of GDP, the [...] read more >
Margins
Posted by Sue Holmberg on September 9th, 2011An economic poem by Hakim Bellamy of the Media Literacy Project, inspired by his experience at the 2011 Summer Institute.
Also, be sure to check out Hakim’s body of work at http://hakimbe.com/.
Margins
Have always been better for profit
Than for the people that live there
Where lower class
Looks like an accomplishment from down here
Where the ups
And Dows
Of the Joneses
Feel more like
The down
And outs of the Jeffersons
No Black laundromat
To wash the slavery off legal tender
No dirty employers
Blaming 2nd generation dreamers
For their money not
Being clean
Our [...] read more >
The EPA: A Phantom Menace
Posted by training on August 30th, 2011
By Heidi Garrett-Peltier, CPE Staff Economist
Environmental regulations are not “job-killers” after all.
GOP claims EPA costs jobs
Polluting industries, along with the legislators who are in their pockets, consistently claim that environmental regulation will be a “job killer.” They counter efforts to control pollution and to protect the environment by claiming that any such measures would increase costs and destroy jobs. But these are empty threats. In fact, the bulk of the evidence shows that environmental regulations do not [...] read more >
My Center for Popular Economics Institute Experience: “Does your head hurt? Are you confused? Good, that means you’re learning”
Posted by emilykawano on August 18th, 2011By Leticia Medina, Deputy Director of Media Justice League (part of the MAG-Net delegation participating in the CPE Summer Institute)
“Does your head hurt? Are you confused? Good, that means you’re learning.” My classmates and I heard the preceding on a daily basis from Dr. Hector Saez at the Center for Popular Economics Summer Institute. The Summer Institute was a special track titled Media, Democracy and the Economy. For five days, Hector Sáez and Michelle Rosenfield dedicated themselves to [...] read more >
CWGL Employment Opportunity: Program Coordinator
Posted by training on August 13th, 2011The Center for Women’s Global Leadership has begun a formal search for a Program Coordinator for its work pertaining to violence against women (VAW) and women’s leadership. The intersection of VAW and militarism in its various forms will be a major component of the work. CWGL encourages the applications of those with knowledge/experience in areas such as the impact of war and conflict, peace building processes, small arms proliferation, political violence, violence against women committed by state agents, and the [...] read more >
Bob Pollin in The Nation on the S & P Downgrade
Posted by Sue Holmberg on August 11th, 2011Our members have been especially busy responding to the panic induced by Standard & Poor’s downgrading of the US’s credit rating. As Bob Pollin explains in The Nation, in fact, our current debt burden is manageable, and half the historical average.
You can find Bob Pollin’s insight on the debt crisis in two consecutive articles in The Nation:
Is it Time to Downgrade the Agencies? and The Standard & Poor’s Agenda.
Art and Money
Posted by Sue Holmberg on August 11th, 2011Check out David Kotz’s article Art and Money on Truthout.com, in which he challenges the notion that the US’s commercialized system is ideal for fostering artistic expression.
