Political Economy and the Current Crisis


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The Crisis and Capital Accumulation: Is the Role of the State Changing?
Union for Radical Political Economics
Chair: Rina Garst
Jerry Joffe - St. John's University, NY
Armagan Gezici - Keene State College
Terrence McDonough - Department of Economics National University of Ireland Galway
N0T A PANELIST, but here's bio for the chair, Rina Garst - URPE

Alternative Perspectives on Marxist Crisis Theory and the Current Economic Crisis
Union for Radical Political Economics; Science and Society
Chair: Paddy Quick, St. Francis College, Brooklyn
Julio Huato - St. Francis College, Brooklyn
David Kotz - Economics Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
David Laibman - Science and Society
Fred Magdoff - Monthly Review
NOT a speaker -- this is info on Chair, Paddy Quick - St. Francis College, Brooklyn

The Logic of Capitalism: Understanding Water, Food, and Environmental Crises
Chair: Meghana Nayak, Associate Professor, Political Science
Andrew Theori - Pace University student
Kathleen O'Leary - Pace University student
Fred Wolf - Pace University student

The Current Economic Crisis and Its Possible Outcomes
Marxist Theory Colloquium at NYU
Chair: Bertell Ollman
Michael Hudson - Professor, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Kansas
Gar Alperovitz - Prof., Dept. of Government, Univ. of Maryland
Bertell Ollman - Prof., Dept. of Politics, NYU

The Fiscal Crises of the States
Democratic Left
Chair: Michael Hirsch
James Parrot - Associate director and chief economist, Fiscal Policy Institute
Katie Romich - Organizer, Communications Workers of America/Texas
John Cameron - Organizer, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees/Illinois
Michael Hirsch - Democratic Socialists of Amnerica; New Politics magazine

Economics and Politics of the Current Crisis: Causes and Prospects for the Future
Marxist-Humanist Initiative
Chair: Anne Jaclard
Brendan Cooney - Video producer of “kapitalism101”
Anne Jaclard - Marxist-Humanist Initiative
Andrew Kliman - Pace University, Dept. of Economics-Pleasantville

The Crisis this Time
Socialist Register
Chair - Vivek Chibber
Greg Albo
Anwar Shaikh
Johanna Brenner 
 
Toward a Second [Economic] Bill of Rights
Democratic Left
Chair: Michael Hirsch
Dean Baker - Center for Economic and Policy Research
Teresa Ghilarducci - Economics Department, Graduate faculty, New School for Social Research, and director of the school's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
Joseph Schwartz - Professor of Politics, Temple University and vive-chair, Democratic Socialists of America.
Union Strategies, Poor People's Movements and Crisis
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Chair: Jan Rehmann - Union Theological Seminary
Willie Baptist - Poverty Initiative
Janice Fine - School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
Catharina Schmalstieg - University of Jena
Lian Hurst Mann - National School for Strategic Organizing
Christina Kaindl - "We-Won't-Pay-for-Your-Crisis" Coalition, Germany
 

 

Capitalism, Crisis and Alternative Possibilities II             

Sponsor - Critical Sociology

Chair Lauren Langman

Carl Davidson, Global Studies Association, Progressives for Social Change,

Walda Katz Fishman - Howard University, United States Social Forum

Graciela Monteagudo, University of Mass/Amherst, Dartmouth College

Ana Margarida Estaves, Brown Univeristy

Beth Gonzales

 

The Economic Crisis and Its Impact on the Working Class
International Socialist Review
David McNally - University of Toronto
Joel Geier - International Socialist Review
Greg Albo
Amy Muldoon - CWA 
 
The Economic Crisis, How it Impacts African Americans and Labor
Chair - Tony Montiero
Muhammad Ahmad - Temple University, Departmen of African-American Studies
Bill Fletcher, Jr. - Editor, Black Commentator
Henry Nicholas - 1199
Jonathan Jackson  
 
 
The New Phase of the Crisis in Europe.The Transatlantic Perspective
Transform!
Walter Baier - Coordinator, Transform Network
William K. Tabb
Jeremy Brecher - Global Labor Strategies
Rainer Rilling - Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
João Romão - Bloco de Esquerda and Cultra, Portugal