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.
Republican Plan to Cut 401(k) Tax Breaks Fuels Inequality
Teresa Ghilarducci, labor economist and director of SCEPA's Retirement Equity Lab (ReLab), made the following statement regarding Congressional Republicans' proposal to cut contribution limits for 401(k) retirement savings contributions:
GOP Tax Plan Ignores Regressive Retirement Tax Breaks
September 2017 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55
Foley Receives Guggenheim Prize in Economics
SCEPA Economist and New School Professor Duncan Foley receives the 2017 Guggenheim Prize in Economics for “major contribution to the field.”
New Data Shows Drop in Retirement Coverage for All Income Levels
American workers’ access to retirement savings coverage is getting worse. New data show that employer-provided retirement coverage for all workers dropped 4 percentage points between 2014 and 2017 to 40%. Coverage for those nearing retirement - workers ages 55 to 64 - fell 7 percentage points to 44%.
Climate Change Research at IIASA
Willi Semmler, director of SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change Project and economics professor at The New School, spent his summer in Laxenburg and Vienna working in a new role as senior researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) on climate change issues. The IIASA is an international scientific institute that conducts research into the critical issues of global environmental, climate change, inequality, poverty, technological, and social change that we face in the twenty-first century. Currently, the IIASA is the main research center investigating the urgent question of how to act to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Professor Semmler’s research this summer investigated green bonds, the transition to a low-carbon economy, and intergenerational fairness. He gave a talk in a workshop at the IIASA sharing the research results and worked on a research proposal entitled, "Enabling Investment for Fair Climate Policies."
Bolivia's Institutional Transformation
Natalia Bracarense will present, "Bolivia's Institutional Transformation: Contact Zones, Social Movements and the Emergence of Ethnic-Class Consciousness."
Bracarense is a professor of economics at the North Central College in Illinois. Her research interests include history of economic thought, economic methodology and theory, development economics, and history of U.S.-Latin American relations. In recent years she has published articles in collection of essays in the history of economic thought and in economic methodology. Bracarense also has publications in the Review of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Issues and Review of Radical Political Economy.
She has earned several grants and awards, of which the most recent include a Fellowship at Duke University (2016). Other awards include a Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University Summer Institute Participant Award (2014), History of Economics Society’s Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholar Program Travel Grant (2014 and 2015) and European Society for the History of Economic Thought Travel Grant (2013).
December 5th, 2017
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The New School
6 East 16th Street, Room 1009
The event is part of the Fall 2017 Seminar Series hosted by SCEPA and The New School Economics Department.
Lance Taylor: "Demand Drives Growth"
On November 7, 2017, Lance Taylor presented, “Demand Drives Growth.” Taylor is economics professor emeritus at The New School, former director of SCEPA, and a well-known macroeconomist. Recently, Taylor has taken up environmental macroeconomics, under standard and demand-driven growth models. In this work, he analyzes the short- and long-term social cost of greenhouse gasses and climate change, emission control legislation, and the role of green enterprise in economic recovery and sustainability, GDP and employment growth, and service-based economies.
The event was part of the Fall 2017 Seminar Series hosted by SCEPA and The New School Economics Department.
The Return of the Class Struggle Game
Bertell Ollman and Edward Nell will present, “The Return of the Class Struggle Game.”
Bertell Ollman is a professor of politics at New York University. He teaches both dialectical methodology and socialist theory. He is the author of several academic works relating to Marxist theory.
Edward J. Nell is an American economist and a former professor at the New School for Social Research. Nell was a member of the New School faculty from 1969 to 2014. He is a strong critic of the rational, individualistic foundation in neo-classical economics.
October 17th, 2017
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The New School
6 East 16th Street, Room 1009
The event is part of the Fall 2017 Seminar Series hosted by SCEPA and The New School Economics Department.
Can Sociology Help Economics?
Robert Skidelsky will present, “Can Sociology Helps Economics?”
Robert Skidelsky is a British economic historian of Russian origin and the author of a major, award-winning, three-volume biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes.
September 26th, 2017
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The New School
6 East 16th Street, Room 1009
The event is part of the Fall 2017 Seminar Series hosted by SCEPA and The New School Economics Department.
The Minsky Moment as the Revenge of Entropy
Barkley Rosser will present, “The Minsky Moment as the Revenge of Entropy.”
Barkley Rosser is a mathematical economist and Professor of Economics at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia since 1988. He is known for work in nonlinear economic dynamics, including applications in economics of catastrophe theory, chaos theory, and complexity theory.
October 10th, 2017
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The New School
6 East 16th Street, Room 1009
The event is part of the Fall 2017 Seminar Series hosted by SCEPA and The New School Economics Department.
