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2025 Undergrad Events day. Thursday May 1st. Crotty & Gordon Halls 1pm EURA poster session 3pm Undergrad Debate 4pm Pizza picnic with 🆓Free Econ T-shirts!

2025 Undergrad Events day. Thursday May 1st. 
Crotty & Gordon Halls
1pm EURA poster session
3pm Undergrad Debate
4pm Pizza picnic with 🆓Free Econ T-shirts!
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In a new video from INET, Ina Ganguli, shows how scientific breakthroughs—from vaccines to AI—are built on global talent flows. youtube.com/watch?v=F-2dKm…

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Decolonial Reconstellations: A 3-volume edited series by Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji, is co-editor of the series comprised of Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place, Dissolving Master Narratives, and Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy. routledge.com/Dynamics-of-De…

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"A green and inclusive post-pandemic recovery of the Blue Economy and coastal communities" Marta Vicarelli, is the lead researcher for a transnational comparative study of economic recovery and climate resilience implementation after COVID-19. umass.edu/news/article/s…

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In a new video from INET, Ina Ganguli, shows how scientific breakthroughs—from vaccines to AI—are built on global talent flows. youtube.com/watch?v=F-2dKm…

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"Pervasive racial and ethnic disparities in the U.S. petrochemical workforce" Michael Ash, coauthored a new study finding that people of color were consistently underrepresented among the highest-paid jobs & overrepresented among the lowest-paid jobs sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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"The Global South Will Pay for Trump’s Trade War" Jayati Ghosh, writes in a commentary that the result of new tariffs "could be an entirely manufactured global recession, with the developing world bearing the brunt.” project-syndicate.org/commentary/dev…

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Missed the 2025 Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture? Watch the recording! Understanding Minimum Wage and Immigration Policies: Cause and Effect and Evidence-Based Approaches With David Card, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley youtube.com/watch?v=-z1SQq…

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May 12, 2025 at 4pm to 5:30 pm EDT. In person at UMass Amherst or LIVESTREAM at youtube.com/c/UMassEconomi… Karl Marx’s magnum opus Capital, first published in 1867, remains one of the most influential books in the history of economics.

May 12, 2025 at 4pm to 5:30 pm EDT. In person at UMass Amherst or LIVESTREAM at youtube.com/c/UMassEconomi…

Karl Marx’s magnum opus Capital, first published in 1867, remains one of the most influential books in the history of economics.
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Jayati Ghosh and Léonce Ndikumana are featured in a new documentary chronicling the quest for global tax fairness and against capital flight. umass.edu/news/article/u…

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Jayati Ghosh, delivered "Power, Control, and Democracy in the 21st Century," the 2025 Heilbroner Lecture at the New School on April 29. event.newschool.edu/jayatighosh

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In an interview, Gerald Epstein, economics and co-director of PERI, says global capitalists may no longer see the US as a “safe haven” under Trump truthout.org/articles/what-…

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Fidan Ana Kurtulus, spoke at the US Senate on April 9, 2025, on the economic benefits of broad-based employee equity ownership, wherein workers have an ownership stake in the company where they work umass.edu/economics/news…

Fidan Ana Kurtulus, spoke at the US Senate on April 9, 2025, on the economic benefits of broad-based employee equity ownership, wherein workers have an ownership stake in the company where they work umass.edu/economics/news…
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Bob Pollin, to be awarded the New School for Social Research's "Robert H. Mundheim Medal to the Living Spirit" on May 15 during the New Schools' Awards ceremony. peri.umass.edu/robert-pollin-…

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Bob Pollin,awarded the New School for Social Research's "Robert H. Mundheim Medal to the Living Spirit" during the New Schools' Awards ceremony. The medal is awarded each year to a "person who demonstrates dedication to the mission of the New School peri.umass.edu/robert-pollin-…

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Kevin L. Young, economics, is interviewed for a Money story discussing his 2024 co-authored article analyzing where the world’s wealthiest people attended college. money.com/billionaires-a…

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"What Germany's Economy Really Needs" Isabella Weber, has co-written an opinion piece arguing that new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s economic strategy will not succeed. foreignaffairs.com/europe/what-ge…

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"Trump Is Trying To Reverse The New Deal" In an op-ed, Richard Wolff, (emeritus), writes that Project 2025, which the Trump administration is largely following, "targets what little remains of the New Deal: removing 'regulatory' state apparatuses." eurasiareview.com/20052025-trump…

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Jayati Ghosh, writes that the failure of other wealthy countries to show any real solidarity in response to President Trump’s hostile protectionist policies is a prime example of a growing appetite for “mutual assured destruction.” project-syndicate.org/commentary/wea…