What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #28
November 3, 2023 Paige Carmichael, PhD student in Economics at UMass Amherst, led a discussion of disability, work, and capitalism.
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What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #27
September 29, 2023 Scott Carter, Professor of Economics at the University of Tulsa, led a discussion of his work on Sraffa.
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #26
June 30, 2023 Andrea Leiter, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam led a discussion of her book, Making the World Safe for Investment: The Protection of Foreign Property 1922-1959 (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #25
June 23, 2023 Sanjay Reddy, Professor of Economics at the New School, led a discussion of his article, “Beyond Property or Beyond Piketty?,”British Journal of Sociology, 72, 1 (January 2021), 8-25.
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #24
May 5, 2023 Reshard Kolabhai, Lecturere at North-West University, South Africa led a discussion of his work-in-progress, “Law in Movement: Constitutional Law, Indigenous Customs, and Capitalism in South Africa.”
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #23
March 3, 2023 Branden Adams, Lecturer in History at University of California Santa Barbara, led a discussion of his work-in-progress, “Coal and Capitalism: From Railroads and Miners’ Unions to Senator Manchin’s Climate […]
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #22
February 10, 2023 Jamee Moudud, Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, led a discussion of Kai Koddenbrock, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, and Ndongo Samba Sylla, “Beyond Financialisation: The Longue Durée of Finance and Production in […]
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #21
January 13, 2023 Amna Akbar, Professor of Law at Ohio State University, led a discussion on her working paper rethinking law’s emancipatory potential in the context of racial capitalism.
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #20
November 18, 2022 Carol Heim, Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led a discussion of a chapter from Stuart Banner, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law […]