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Official account of the Economics Department of John Jay College, City University of New York, home to the country's leading MA program in heterodox economics and radical political economy. More info at https://johnjayeconomics.org/.
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Professor Ian Seda speaks about the increasingly catastrophic situation in Puerto Rico. mronline.org/2025/06/16/a...
Since then, the elected governor from the pro-statehood party Jennifer González, who is a Trumpian Republican, has slowly lost support within various sectors of her party and those of a local capitalist class that needs the electricity question to be successfully addressed. Earlier this year, González had made what so far has been an empty promise to cancel the contract with the private monopoly that distributes electricity, while also promising more federal funds from the United States. This last promise came crashing down with Donald Trump’s second term and the cuts in federal spending, some of which have applied to Puerto Rico in crucial areas (e.g., cuts in education of $400 million and cuts by the Environmental and Protection Agency of $60 million). Add to that the uncertainty surrounding the tariff wars, the potential inflationary effects, the expected increase in electrical tariffs, and what you have is an explosive cocktail ready to detonate at any moment.
June 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Coming up this May 17: The second annual John Jay Economics Spring BBQ, with great bands and speakers. It's from 2pm-8pm at The People's Garden in Bushwick. If you're a friend of the department, or would like to become one, stop by!
May 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Jamee Moudud was at John Jay the other day, speaking about his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire?
May 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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This Thursday, April 24, John Jay will be hosting labor historian Michael Hillard coming to talk as part of our Economic Justice Speaker Series. He'll be speaking in room L2.84 from 4 to 6pm on "Confronting America's Capitalist Class Exceptionalism." Everyone is welcome.
April 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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John Jay student @phedreen.bsky.social on the real scandal of Signalgate. fair.org/home/the-rea...
April 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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On April 7, the John Jay economics department will be hosting a talk by Vamsi Vakulabharanam on his book on economic development, class and inequality in China and India.
March 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Andrej Markovčič (John Jay MA alumnus) interviewed Arthur MacEwan and Zoe Sherman, editors of Dollars & Sense magazine on the history of “popular economics” for Jacobin Magazine. jacobin.com/2024/12/left...
March 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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In Barron's, professor J. W. Mason argues that there may be good reason for voters' unhappiness with the economy under Biden. www.barrons.com/articles/eco...
March 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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‪In New Politics, professor Ian Seda-Irizarry writes about new developments in Puerto Rico's struggle for survival and self-determination. newpol.org/redefining-t...
March 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Admissions to the John Jay economics MA program are now open for fall 2025. johnjayeconomics.org/how-to-apply/
March 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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New review of Capital City by Samuel Stein in the Review of Radical Political Economy, by John Jay's Kathryn Loeb. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
March 31, 2025 at 1:40 AM