What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #15
November 5, 2021 Margaret Levenstein, Director of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and Research Professor at the University of Michigan, discussed her article “Escape from Equilibrium: Thinking […]
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #14
September 10, 2021 Michael C. Duff, Winston S. Howard Distinguished Professor at University of Wyoming Law, led a discussion of his draft article about workplace injury and illness, worker’s constitutional rights […]
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #13
August 20, 2021 Sarah Haan, Professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, led a discussion of her article, “Corporate Governance and the Feminization of Capital,” forthcoming in the […]
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #12
June 25, 2021 Kim Christensen, Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, and Martha McCluskey, Professor Emerita at University at Buffalo Law School, led a discussion of about the property […]
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #11
May 21, 2021 Ruth Dukes, Professor of Labour Law at the University of Glasgow, led a discussion of her paper “The Economic Sociology of Labour Law,” Journal of Law and Society, 2019.
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #10
April 23, 2021 Jamee Moudud, Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, led a discussion of his paper on how racial capitalism was built into the legal and political design of […]
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #9

March 26, 2021 Dr. Maha Rafi Atal, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Business School, facilitated a discussion of how the historically changing relationship between the corporation, state and society sheds light on […]
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #8
February 26, 2021 Marilyn Power, Professor Emerita of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, led a discussion on feminist insights into the law and political economy of capitalism.
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #7
January 29, 2021 Dr. Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (PhD EUI, LL.M. NYU), an associate fellow at the Asser Institute and a postdoctoral research fellow at Edinburgh Law School, led a discussion of Julie E. […]
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #6
December 18, 2020 Jamee Moudud, Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, led a discussion of two short readings on W.E.B. Dubois’s important contributions to institutional economics and political economy.