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04/28/2022

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04/21/2022

If you missed the 2022 Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture "Directing Economic Growth: A Mission-Oriented Approach" with Mariana Mazzucato on April 12, 2022 or you want to watch it again the recording is now available.

04/19/2022

Ph.D. Candidate, April Burrage, is the First Author of a Sloan Foundation funded study. Second Nature, an NGO, collaborated with Anna Goldstein to discuss The Future of Academic Research on Climate Solutions.

Ph.D. Candidate, April Burrage, is the First Author of a Sloan Foundation funded study released to the public. Second Nature, an NGO, collaborated with Anna Goldstein to discuss The Future of Academic Research on Climate Solutions. They examined the current landscape of climate solutions research at...

04/08/2022

2022 Gamble Lecture, "Directing Economic Growth: A Mission-Oriented Approach" with


If you can't attend in person there will be a livestream https://youtube.com/c/UMassEconomics/live
April 12, 5:30-7:30pm ET Campus Center Auditorium
https://www.youtube.com/c/UMassEconomics/live

04/08/2022

“How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate,” the recent book by Isabella Weber has been awarded the Best Book in Interdisciplinary Studies Award of the International Studies Association (ISA).

The ISA award is just the latest accolade for Weber's book, which last fall was named one of three recipients of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy’s (EAEPE) Joan Robinson Prize for 2021.

04/01/2022

2022 Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture
Mariana Mazzucato
April 12, 2022, 5:30-7:00pm ET
Campus Center Auditorium
Directing Economic Growth: A Mission-Oriented Approach
Can't attend in person?
Watch the Livestream

03/24/2022

2022 UMass Gamble Lecture, "Directing Economic Growth: A Mission-Oriented Approach" with If you can't attend in person there will be a livestream https://www.youtube.com/c/UMassEconomics/live
April 12, 5:30-7:30pm ET
Campus Center Auditorium

03/22/2022

2022 Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture with Mariana Mazzucato
April 12, 2022, 5:30-7:30pm ET
Campus Center Auditorium
Directing Economic Growth: A Mission-Oriented Approach
This lecture will make the case for rethinking the role of government in the economy so that it is better equipped to deal with the greatest challenges of our times—health pandemics, climate change and the digital divide. It will draw on Professor Mazzucato's recent widely acclaimed book, Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism, and focus on the need to move away from a reactive market fixing approach to a market shaping one. The lecture will give examples on the ‘how’: from ‘outcomes’ based budgeting, to redesigning procurement to nurture bottom up solutions, to a new symbiotic (versus parasitic) partnerships between the public and private sectors—walking the talk of stakeholder value.

Economics - Innovation - Inclusive Growth - Public Purpose | Mariana Mazzucato

03/21/2022

Jayati Ghosh Named By UN To High-Level Advisory Board On Multilateralism
Economics Professor Jayati Ghosh has been named to the 12-member board, which will be supported in its work by the Centre for Policy Research of the United Nations University in close coordination with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. UN chief Guterres on Friday announced the establishment of the Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism to be co-chaired by former Liberian president and Nobel laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former Swedish prime minister Stefan Lofven. The board will be supported in its work by the Centre for Policy Research of the United Nations University in close coordination with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.

Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh has been appointed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to a new high-level advisory board on effective multilateralism.

03/18/2022

"The Hill" article by James K. Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana
"Stop enabling kleptocrats: More must be done to stem the influx of dirty money to West"

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a wake-up call in more ways than one. We shouldn’t wait for kleptocrats to get uppity before moving to disable them. We ought to do it as a matter of course – and a matter of principle.

03/15/2022

Robert Pollin interviewed by KFPA Radio.
Financial Warfare in a Neoliberal World.

Guest: Robert Pollin is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is author of several books including his latest, Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Savin...

03/15/2022

James Boyce Interviewed by Faith Family America on Climate Mitigation

The climate crisis worsens with each passing year — and even the current levels of warming are disastrous, affecting ecosystems as well as social and environmental conditions of health. People in the world’s poorest countries remain most vulnerable to the crisis. The world’s governments are sl...