SCEPA's 25th Anniversary

As a part of our #SCEPAat25 anniversary celebration, SCEPA published a new video on how we challenge traditional economic paradigms and how we impact public policy.

Critical Public Finance MissionSCEPA’s Critical Public Finance (CPF) project investigates how the increasing financialization of municipal finance affects local government’s ability to be transparent and accountable to taxpayers as well as its effects on increasing urban inequality. Critical Public Finance TeamSCEPA Associate Director Bridget Fisher directs the CPF project, working with SCEPA Research Associates Flávia Leite and Jose Coronado and SCEPA Senior Fellow Rick McGahey. Critical...

Economics of Climate MissionSCEPA’s Economics of Climate Change project seeks to determine the consequences of climate change policy proposals on domestic and global economics and the possibilities for renewable energy. The project investigates effective climate change policy in light of fragile domestic and global economies, and challenges critics of policies that would mitigate climate change who cite negative effects on the economy to forestall change. Economics of Climate TeamOur Economics...

ReLab MissionSCEPA’s Retirement Equity Lab (ReLab) investigates the political economy of aging populations. ReLab researches the causes and consequences of the retirement crisis, including inadequate savings, eroding pension institutions, and decreasing access to and participation in effective retirement savings vehicles at work. ReLab TeamOur ReLab team is led by economist, retirement expert and SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci and ReLab Associate Director Siavash Radpour. They are...

As a part of our #SCEPAat25 anniversary celebration, SCEPA has published a new video on our organization’s history. 

To celebrate our 25th Anniversary, SCEPA was proud to host a discussion of how heterodox economics can build an alternative framework and policy agenda for shared prosperity, greater social equality, and a sustainable planet, while avoiding past errors.