Bridget Fisher is a researcher and communications specialist with a background in government and public affairs. Before joining SCEPA, she was a senior press officer in The New School’s communications department working with social science departments across the university. She came to higher education from government. In New York, she served as chief of staff for a member of the New York City Council and director of communications for the Working Families Party. On Capitol Hill, she served as press secretary and legislative assistant for a member of the U.S. Congress. Bridget graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree in public communication and women’s studies. She received her master's degree in public administration with a focus on urban economic development from CUNY's Baruch College.
The Survey of Consumer Finance: Household Debt and Class
Orsola Constatini, Senior Economist with the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), will present her latest paper, "What the Survey of Consumer Finance Can Tell Us About Household Debt and Class."
December 3, 2019
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The New School
6 East 16th Street, Room 1009
The event is part of the Fall 2019 Seminar Series hosted by The New School Economics Department. The seminar series features lectures, paper and book presentations from prominent economists.
Can Neoliberal Capitalism Affect Human Evolution?
Manitoba University Economics Professor Robert Chernomas will present a lecture titled, "Can Neoliberal Capitalism Affect Human Evolution?"
November 12, 2019
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The New School
6 East 16th Street, Room 1009
Chernomas's co-authored book, Neoliberal Lives: Work, Politics, Nature and Health in the Contemporary United States, argues that what appears today as fragmented social, economic, environmental, and political problems are all manifestations of Neoliberalism- a 40-year-old, class-based, political-economic project to favorably position capital in its struggle to preserve the conditions of profitability.
It examines how the U.S. business class has successfully increased control over, privatized, or modified labor markets, the determinants of health, the health care system, welfare, education, democracy and the natural world with significant effects on our individual and collective life chances.
The connection between genes, health outcomes and life chances are significantly moderated by social factors. Changed physical and socioeconomic conditions in the Neoliberal era have created inequalities as a result of the differential accumulation of exposures and resource access, rooted in class-based circumstances that have been characterized as traumatogenic (capable of producing a wound or injury). The revolutionary field of epigenetics suggests these deleterious effects are transgenerational.
The event is part of the Fall 2019 Seminar Series hosted by The New School Economics Department. The seminar series features lectures, paper and book presentations from prominent economists.
Macroeconomic Stimulus a la MMT
New School for Social Research Emeritus Economics Professor Lance Taylor will present his paper, "Macroeconomic Stimulus à la MMT."
November 5, 2019
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The New School
6 East 16th Street, Room 1009
The event is part of the Fall 2019 Seminar Series hosted by The New School Economics Department. The seminar series features lectures, paper and book presentations from prominent economists.
Inequalities and Co-Existence in Indian Cities
UMASS Economics Professor Vamsi Vakulabharanam will present his paper, "Inequalities and Co-existence in Indian Cities: Implications for Economic Development."
October 29, 2019
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The New School
6 East 16th Street, Room 1009
The event is part of the Fall 2019 Seminar Series hosted by The New School Economics Department. The seminar series features lectures, paper and book presentations from prominent economists.
Political Economy of Trumpism
New School for Social Research Economics Professor Sanjay Reddy presented his paper, "Political Economy of Trumpism."
October 15, 2019
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The New School
6 East 16th Street, Room 1009
The event was part of the Fall 2019 Seminar Series hosted by The New School Economics Department. The seminar series features lectures, paper and book presentations from prominent economists.
MMT in the Tropics
Bucknell University Economics Professor Matias Vernengo will join the Economics Seminar Series to present his new paper "MMT in the Tropics."
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has been in the news. It has been connected to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with the discussion of a Green New Deal, and with the rise of democratic socialist ideas, in particular with Bernie Sander’s presidential campaign. Also, the fact that Stephanie Kelton, a prominent MMTer, is an advisor to Sanders, has brought significantly more attention on their views, and comments by prominent economists, both mainstream (e.g. Olivier Blanchard, Paul Krugman, Larry Summers, etc.) and heterodox (e.g. Jerry Epstein, Doug Henwood, Tom Palley, etc.).
This paper looks specifically at the issues related to debt dynamics (the Functional Finance part of MMT) related to developing countries.
September 17, 2019
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The New School
6 East 16th Street, Room 1009
The event is part of the Fall 2019 Seminar Series hosted by The New School Economics Department. The seminar series features lectures, paper and book presentations from prominent economists.
20+ Years of Older Workers' Declining Bargaining Power
Are Central Banks Prepared for the Next Recession?
SCEPA economists worked with the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) on their June 2019 evaluation of the IMF’s advice on unconventional monetary policies.
Terms of Service: Monopsony in Labor Markets from American Slavery to Amazon Mechanical Turk
SCEPA welcomed Suresh Naidu, Professor of Economics and Public and International Affairs at Columbia University, for our annual Schwartz Lecture. Professor Naidu presented, "Terms of Service: Monopsony in Labor Markets from American Slavery to Amazon Mechanical Turk." His presentation is available here.
SCEPA's annual Irene & Bernard L. Schwartz Lecture works to contribute to discussion of the crucial policy issues facing the U.S. and world economies by bringing a distinguished speaker or panel to the university. Past speakers include Heather Boushey, Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, Robert Rubin, Andy Stern and Laura Tyson.
IMF Working Paper: How Climate Disasters Affect Capital
Economist Willi Semmler, director of SCEPA’s Economics of Climate Change project, co-authored an IMF Working Paper modeling how climate disasters affect population segments, infrastructure, housing, and private capital, possibly leading to poverty traps.
