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URPE News and Upcoming Events
URPE at SEA
(Southern Economic Association)
November 19 – 21, 2016
Washington, DC
Call for Papers: Deadline was April 13, 2016
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URPE at ASSA
(Allied Social Science Associations)
Chicago, IL on January 6-8, 2017
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Click here for 2017 URPE at ASSA Program
Call for Papers: Deadline was May 1, 2016
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URPE at EEA
(Eastern Economic Association)
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Member Activities Update
See our Member Activities page to see what members have been up to recently. This column is the latest activities. Also see Member Books and Opinion.
John Weeks and Anwar Shaikh discuss The global rise of inequality on The Week's Update radio show. (November 2, 2016)
Dean Baker's Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer has just been published. There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather, it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker explains how rules on trade, patents, copyrights, corporate governance, and macroeconomic policy were rigged to make income flow upward. (November 2, 2016)
J. W. Mason has written Functional finance vs. conventional finance: What’s really at stake? for the Washington Center on Equitable Growth's blog. (November 2, 2016)
Dean Baker has written The old debt and entitlement charade on Truthout. (November 2, 2016)
Mark Weisbrot has written Venezuela's Economic Crisis: Does It Mean That the Left Has Failed? on Truthout. (October 24, 2016)
Alejandro Ruess writes on European Social Democracy and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis on the Dollars & Sense blog, (October 24, 2016)
David M. Fields informs us that Piero Sraffa’s papers and correspondence, held in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, are to be made available online in their entirety. (October 24, 2016)
Mary King informs us of a free, 1-day workshop to learn about and explore a new OECD dataset on literacy, numeracy and digital problem-solving skills of adults in 40 countries. The workshop will be held January 5 in Chicago just before the ASSA meetings. For more information and to register. (October 4, 2016)