The World Bank announced with great fanfare that the number of people living in poverty has fallen by almost 500 million between 1980 and 2012.

SCEPA Economist Willi Semmler published a new book, Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 3, coauthored with Carl Chiarella from Australia's University of Technology and Peter Flaschel from Germany's Bielefeld University.

Our 2010 Annual Report describes our work on collaboration and outreach. 

Our 2012 Annual Report describes our efforts to build a solid platform to support research.

SCEPA's 2013 Annual Report documents our growing audience.

Our 2015 Annual Report documents SCEPA's engagement with today's high-profile issues.

SCEPA's 2016 Annual Report documents our work to pursue innovative solutions to the nation’s pressing economic questions - by producing strategic research under academic standards.

The issue of who is responsible for funding climate mitigation and adaptation is central to climate negotiations.

In celebration of the 80th anniversary of John Maynard Keynes' lectures at The New School, SCEPA's Robert L. Heilbroner Memorial Lecture hosted a speech by Lord John Eatwell, president of Queens' College and professor of Financial Policy at the University of Cambridge.

As Eatwell states, "Advocating sensible policies on 'pragmatic' grounds has never been enough to overcome primitive views on deficits, debt, and the role of the state."

The paralysis in policy-making that is exacerbating the economic crisis has its roots in the failure of economic theory. It fails to explain the causes of the breakdown or provide an unambiguous path of action to mitigate its consequences. Today's challenge is the same as that faced by Keynes in the 1930s: how to change the theoretical foundations of economic policy?

The Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism

In 1963, Robert Heilbroner earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research, where he was subsequently appointed Norman Thomas Professor of Economics in 1971. He taught at The New School for the next 20 years. Each year, SCEPA hosts a lecture by a distinguished scholar on long-term economic trends to honor Heilbroner's life work.

This annual lecture is used to gain a greater understanding of questions of economic justice and how the profit-seeking activities of private firms might also serve broader social goals. To use his words, "capitalism's uniqueness in history lies in its continuously self-generated change, but it is this very dynamism that is the system's chief enemy."

The event features a distinguished, scholarly talk on long-term economic trends. Past speakers include Nancy Folbre, James K. Galbraith, Sanford Jacoby, William Lazonick, and Stephen Marglin.

SCEPA joined the Economics Student Union of the The New School for Social Research Economics Department to host a panel discussion with the economics faculty, "Vision in Heterodox Economics." The panel included faculty members Ed Nell, Anwar Shaikh, Duncan Foley, Teresa Ghilarducci, Sanjay Reddy and Christian Proaño and was moderated by economics student and SCEPA Assistant Lisa Selca.