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The New School for Social Research is rooted in a legacy of theoretically informed, historically grounded scholarship, offering rigorous graduate programs.
New York City, NY
Joined March 2015
Hannah Arendt, featuring special guest lecturer @BernieSanders . Photo credit: @TNSarchives (plus some help)
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We are heartbroken to announce the death of Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy, on July 4, 2022. Prof. Bernstein taught philosophy for 70 years. We are forever grateful that he spent 33 of those years with us at @TheNewSchool. More on his life & work soon.
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Yesterday, Duncan Foley, Leo Model Professor of Economics, officially retired from NSSR and @TheNewSchool. Read more about this leading global thinker on political economy and mathematical modeling in the thread below 🧵🔽. #EconTwitter
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Happy birthday, Hannah Arendt! This legendary philosopher and political theorist taught at @TheNewSchool from 1967 until her death in 1975.
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NSSR mourns the loss of Agnes Heller, Professor Emerita of Philosophy who taught at @TheNewSchool for more than 25 years. Her intellect and her courage will be missed by colleagues, students, and supporters from around the globe.
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SEX WORKERS BUILT THE INTERNET.An oral history roundtable w/@DecodingStigma + @hackinghustling, ft. Gabriella Garcia, @TinaHornsAss, @SinnamonLove, @liviatronic. 🗓️ April 20, 12 PM ET . Register:
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11/11 @ 6:00 PM ET. Writing Carceral Capitalism: The Praxis of Autotheory. w/ #LangFaculty @LoneberryWang .
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Congratulations to #NSSRfaculty Sandipto Dasgupta (@sandiptodg) on the publication of his first book, LEGALIZING THE REVOLUTION: INDIA AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE POSTCOLONY (@CambridgeUP). Check out more ⏩
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If your isolation/quarantine means extra time for thinking. Then check out the syllabus for "Thinking," a class taught at NSSR by Hannah Arendt in 1974. Thanks to @Samantharhill, as always, for the amazing archival find!
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We are so excited to welcome @shannonmattern to our #NSSRfaculty this spring! Learn more about her multidisciplinary research, which bridges anthropology, @parsonsdesign, and @TNSmediastudies.
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Congratulations to @FaniaMakaya, Sociology PhD student! She's been awarded a 2021-2022 @AAUW International Fellowship to support her dissertation research on Black feminism on a global scale.
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In @PublicSeminar: MA student Anastasia Shteinert + journalist Alex Strelnikov publish their Q&A with jailed Russian opposition politician & human rights activist @vkaramurza. @cpcjstudents @FreeVladimirKM.
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OCT. 23 @ 6 PM.Crisis and Violence in Brazilian Elections: Democracy on the Ballot. Featuring VP candidate Manuela Davila, Glenn Greenwald of @theintercept, and #NSSRfaculty Andreas Kalyvas and Paulo dos Santos
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Congratulations to Isabella Weber, MA Economics 2015 + PhD Economics 2019, on this honor!. Read more about her and her work on government price controls in this recent @NewYorker profile: #NSSRalumni #NewSchoolAlumni @NewSchoolAlumni.
Beyond thrilled to be included in the 2023 #TIME100NEXT list. Thanks to Elizabeth Warren for a powerful write up. “Weber’s bold ideas are helping shift the economic paradigm." @SenWarren
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100 years ago this month, we opened our doors for our first-ever lecture series. Only those concerned with "the grave social, political, economic and educational problems of the day" need apply. Which course would you take?. #100YearsNew
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NSSR mourns the loss of Lance Taylor — Professor Emeritus of Economics, the former Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development, and past @SCEPA_economics director — who died on August 15 at the age of 82.
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Happy birthday, Hannah Arendt! The famous German-American philosopher was #NSSRfaculty from 1967 until her death in 1975.
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This weekend, we're thankful that rockstar economist Mariana Mazzucato (@MazzucatoM) chose The New School for Social Research for her PhD!.
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📚☀️ NSSR summer reading picks☀️📚. THE DEFICIT MYTH: MODERN MONETARY THEORY AND THE BIRTH OF THE PEOPLE'S ECONOMY (@public_affairs). By @StephanieKelton (PhD Economics '01)
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Orientation yesterday:.SO THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH WAS THE OLD NAME OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL, WE WERE ACTUALLY THE UNIVERSITY IN EXILE, THEN THE GRADUATE FACULTY OF POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE, NOW WE'RE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND THE UNIVERSITY IS THE NEW SCHOOL-
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Our @ICSI_NewSchool public lectures start tonight with @profdavidharvey! Register here and see you soon:
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NSSR mourns the loss of feminist scholar and activist Ann Snitow, who established the gender studies program at The New School and grew longstanding ties between the school and Eastern Europe.
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📢 Book Discussion: "Cannibal Capitalism". 📅 Mar. 23, 6 PM. Fraser argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital—and starve it to death. Register here:.
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🌎#WorldwideWednesday spotlight🌎. With a @JaneyProgram grant, Sociology PhD student @juliangomezdel is spending his summer in Colombia doing research for his dissertation, "Roots of Conflict: State, Society and Agrarian Reform in the Making of Contemporary Colombia"
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"We socialize risks but privatize rewards. In this view, only businesses create value; governments merely facilitate the process.". Top economist @MazzucatoM (@NewSchoolAlumni) explains how COVID-19 offers the chance to change this, and redefine 'value'.
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NSSR Economics PhD students and alumni reunite at the @FMM_macro Fall 2021 conference in Berlin, "Macroeconomics of Socio-Ecological Transition"!
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"As Arendt showed us, the history of dictatorships is founded on lies. We see the same today, in efforts to negate or downplay the pandemic.". #NSSRfaculty @FinchelsteinF uses the insight of Hannah Arendt to explain Trump and Bolsonaro.
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"The 6 letters exchanged by Arendt and Adorno during the 3-month period between January 30 and May 2, 1967, give a vivid picture of the fight over Benjamin’s legacy. ". In @LAReviewofBooks, from @Samantharhill and Susan Gillespie.
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Excited to welcome @StephanieKelton (PhD Economics '01) back to @TheNewSchool and to @SCEPA_economics!. Kelton, a professor of economics and public policy at @stonybrooku, is a leading expert on Modern Monetary Theory and the author of @nytimesbooks bestseller THE DEFICIT MYTH.
Delighted to have accepted an invitation to become a Senior Fellow @TheNewSchool’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis @scepa.
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LISTEN: On Saturday, our Critical @cpcjma program and @jacobinmag hosted a talk with @yanisvaroufakis and @Haddad_Fernando on the global fight against right-wing populism. Podcast available now from @thedigradio:
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TODAY @ 4PM: Brazilian economist and Economics PhD alum @nelsonhbarbosa returns to campus to discuss "Effective Demand, Income Distribution, and Secular Stagnation"
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WATCH: NSSR Dean @williammilberg interviews former Greek minister of finance @yanisvaroufakis on his new book, "Talking to My Daughter About the Economy".
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.@Lesdoggg, *please* join us and Prof. @DarrickHamilton at @TheNewSchool! His classes are indeed f'n awesome.
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We are shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic death of Jeremy Safran, NSSR psychology professor, former Department of Psychology co-chair, and an internationally renowned and admired psychotherapist. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends; we will miss him dearly.
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PLEASE HEED THIS REMINDER.
Just got an email from a prof: “As a reminder, you are required to wear clothes during Zoom meetings.” . Rules are made when they become necessary, not before.
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NSSR Economics alumnae are among the top 25% of economists on Twitter, according to RePEc! . Start your week by following:. ✅ @lauraabcarvalho .✅ @ingridharvold.✅ @HBoushey. See more at @NewSchoolAlumni #EconTwitter.
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Congratulations to all of the Master's, PhD, and Certificate students who graduated from The New School for Social Research last night. We're so proud of the Class of 2021!. #NewSchoolGrad #NSSRgrad
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Rest in peace and power to Samir Amin, a Marxist intellectual giant
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We are so excited that Judith Butler & @CornelWest will be scholars at NSSR this year!. Butler will lead an intensive graduate seminar, Contemporary Feminist Philosophy. West will deliver 1 public lecture & 2 New School community lectures, & meet with Philosophy grad students.
We're thrilled to announce our inaugural Presidential Visiting Scholars: Judith Butler and @CornelWest! . Learn more about our scholars and this exciting new program here:
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Celebrate the career and achievements of #NSSRfaculty Anwar Shaikh this Friday, with guest panelists @Jayati1609, @IsabellaMWeber, @eatonak, @RamaaPolEcon, Ali Khan, and Vivek Chibber. Morning livestream : Afternoon livestream :
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Update: EMMA WON! 🎉💪 Congratulations!.
Excited that #NewSchoolAlumni @EmmaSaltzberg, MA Politics 2020, will be a contestant on @Jeopardy TONIGHT! . Emma, the @TheNewSchool and @NewSchoolAlumni communities will be cheering you on! Good luck! 👏🎊
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She discussed her life in @PublicSeminar with @AnnaNosthoff:. "I felt that I had a debt to pay as a survivor. Writing moral philosophy and philosophy of history for me then became a way to pay my debt as a survivor to the people who could not survive.".
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Provost Tim Marshall announces Race in America, Fall'17 course led by Maya Wiley, Darrick Hamilton & Michelle DePass
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.@Nina_EBanks begins her lecture at @TheNewSchool on Sadie T.M. Alexander, and the comparisons this first African-American economist made in the 1930s between fascism and racism
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From the legendary Hannah Arendt, NSSR/@TheNewSchool professor from 1967-1975. Can you say #readinggoals?
In 1974, Hannah Arendt taught a seminar on "Thinking" at the @NSSRNews . Here is her syllabus. Happy reading!
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Congrats to Duncan Foley, the Leo Model Professor at NSSR, who has won the 2017 Guggenheim Prize in Economics!
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NSSR Dean @williammilberg welcomes @GermanyDiplo head @ABaerbock for a morning talk at @TheNewSchool on "Seizing the Transatlantic Moment: Our Common Responsibility in a New World."
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Voting ends TODAY! We highly recommend NSSR alumni @lauraabcarvalho and @MazzucatoM ⤵.
There are excellent non-white & non-male candidates and candidates based outside the Global North. E.g Brazil's @lauraabcarvalho is not far from the top, with over 80 votes so far! Want to turn things around? Cast your vote for the #NotTheNobel Prize today (instructions above)✊
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Congratulations to Mariana Mazzucato (@MazzucatoM, Economics PhD '99) on being named one of the 50 most influential people in Britain by @BritishGQ!. @TheNewSchool @NewSchoolAlumni .
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Happy 115th birthday, Hannah Arendt!. In Spring 1968, during her first year as #NSSRfaculty, Prof. Arendt taught “Political Experiences in the 20th Century” and co-taught “Plato’s Theaetetus" with Hans Jonas. Which would you have taken?. News bulletin via @TNSarchives
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Start your Friday with this important read on the work of @DarrickHamilton, who we are excited to welcome back to @TheNewSchool this year.
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Congratulations to our 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award recipients! 🎊. This year's recipients guided, connected with, and created supportive and compassionate learning environments for their students. Read more about their impact on @TheNewSchool students ⬇️🧵
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📢JUST ANNOUNCED. @SandyDarity and A. Kirsten Mullen will join @TheNewSchool to discuss their book, FROM HERE TO EQUALITY: REPARATIONS FOR BLACK AMERICANS IN THE 21ST CENTURY. 🗓️ April 21, 2:00-3:30 PM ET. Register ➡️
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Mourning the loss of Toni Morrison. Her 2016 visit to @TheNewSchool, arranged by @NewSchoolWrites and @PENamerica to present her with the 2016 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, was beautiful and inspiring.
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And our hearts are also with Grigory Yudin, NSSR Politics PhD candidate, who has been beaten and detained by Russian police during an anti-war street protest in Moscow earlier this week.
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Anwar Shaikh introduces @NewSchoolAlumni and @BucknellU professor Matias Vernengo before his MMT lecture, while Duncan Foley looks on. #econtwitter
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.@KKM_Econ and @IsmaelCidM (PhD Economics candidates) examine the academic trajectories of underrepresented minorities in Economics and Sociology.
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@kjhealy We appreciate the recognition of our University in Exile! But @NinaBernstein1 is correct about this -- the FrankfUrt (ahem) School made its way from Germany to uptown.
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Another @NewSchoolAlumni reunion of leading economists.
In Geneva for @ilo centennial event (keynote tomorrow on why ‘just transition’ needs labour to co-create transition not just defend against outcomes). Lake walk tonight straight off plane with great Brazilian economist @lauraabcarvalho (@NSSRNews alums!)
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THIS THURSDAY: NSSR welcomes @Nina_EBanks at 4:30 PM ET for a lecture on "Sadie T.M. Alexander: Fascism and Race". Nina Banks is faculty at @BucknellU and is also a Visiting Fellow at @RacePowerPolicy . Register at
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1933: @TheNewSchool created the University in Exile for scholars oppressed by fascism. Sept. 6, 2018: We're doing it again. Attend the launch of the New University in Exile Consortium, featuring @katimarton, @aaleinikoff, @M_Ignatieff, and @DMiliband.
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Congratulations to #NSSRFaculty Nancy Fraser on being named a chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, France's highest reward for outstanding merit. Read more: #Legiondhonneur #France #capitalism #feminism
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READ: these Econ grad students bring diverse perspectives to research & outreach (cc: @rethinkecon @CriticalDev)
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CONGRATS to economics Assoc. Prof. @DarrickHamilton, named one of @INSIGHT_News's 2017 Inspiring Leaders in STEM!
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3/22 || 12:30 PM ET. Economics Seminar: Prof. Mariana Mazzucato (@MazzucatoM). This lecture will make the case for rethinking the role of govt. in the economy so that it is better equipped to deal with the greatest challenges of our times. Register at:
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April 25: Yanis Varoufakis delivers Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on Future of Capitalism: @SCEPA_economics.
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REMEMBERING RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN, 1932-2022. There is so much to say about such a brilliant and warm scholar, teacher, colleague, and friend. The official @TheNewSchool announcement from NSSR Dean @williammilberg is in the screenshots below and this PDF:
We are heartbroken to announce the death of Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy, on July 4, 2022. Prof. Bernstein taught philosophy for 70 years. We are forever grateful that he spent 33 of those years with us at @TheNewSchool. More on his life & work soon.
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Wondering what to get the Hannah Arendt lover in your life this holiday season? Look no further!. h/t @Samantharhill
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In @nytimes, #NSSRfaculty Dick Bernstein discusses the renewed interest in #HannahArendt in an age of authoritarianism and an "ever-increasing number of stateless people and refugees." . #WorldRefugeeDay
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Welcome back, everyone!.
Hannah Arendt teaching at the New School for Social Research
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Hoy en Colombia se celebra la sociología. ¡The New School for Social Research les desea a todos un feliz #DíaDelSociólogo! . Today in Colombia is a day to celebrate the field of sociology and all sociologists. Happy #SociologyDay!. 🎉🎊🎉. @AcsSociologia @ColombianSG.
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CONGRATS: Faculty at NSSR and Parsons awarded prestigious Sawyer Seminar Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, providing $225k in support for research and programming on "Imaginative Mobilities"
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The great Hannah Arendt died on this date in 1975. Read her @nytimes obituary below.
"Hannah Arendt, Political Scientist Dead . 'Hannah Arendt was a strong voice for sanity and reason in the world's intellectual community, devoted not only to writing but to teaching,' Dr. John R. Everett, president of the @NSSRNews said yesterday." .
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New School Historians are *all over* the Washington Post's feature "Made By History," featuring diverse historical perspectives on a range of contemporary issues
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3/4 || 12 PM ET. Colonial Genealogies of Political Economy: Common Currencies, Hidden Hierarchies. W/ Professor Ndongo Samba Sylla (@nssylla) of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung + Professor Ramaa Vasudevan of Colorado State. Hosted by @EmpireCurrency. Register at:
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Congratulations to all of our PhD graduates in the Class of 2023! Presenting our Doctoral Commencement Award winners and their dissertations -- give them a follow! 🧵👀.
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Register for this excellent collaborative series here:
🚨 SOAS Economics and @NSSRNews Economics are offering a fantastic lecture series on contemporary issues in political economy (10, Oct'22 - 24, Apr'23. An exciting series with powerhouses in heterodox economics! ✊🏾. Details in pictures and thread below.
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Take a moment today for some basic gratitude for everything that is as it is
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Happy birthday, Karl Marx!. Today we're watching these two brilliant lectures involving Marx from the 2019 @ICSI_NewSchool summer sessions -- see below (1/3)
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As of July 1, Duncan is Professor Emeritus. During the 2022-2023 academic year, the Economics department will hold a conference celebrating him and the political economy tradition at @TheNewSchool; more information to come. (Photos from a small retirement gathering in May 🎉)
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It's true, we're hiring for our legendary Economics department. Check it out! ⬇️.
The @NSSRNews Economics department is hiring a Prof! 😱.
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Read the latest piece from @yanisvaroufakis on Bitcoin? . Watch him discuss 'political money' with NSSR Dean @williammilberg during his visit to @TheNewSchool in 2018 ⬇️⬇️ .
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JUST ANNOUNCED!. 4/23 @ 12 PM. Journalist Andrea Bernstein (@AndreaWNYC) discusses her latest book, AMERICAN OLIGARCHS, and the often dark stories behind the rise of the Trump and Kushner families to the White House. Register for the online talk at
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4/8 || 12 PM ET. Technopolitics of Monetary Management. with Professors @IsabelFeichtner, @FadhelKaboub, + @C_Lapavitsas.Hosted by @EmpireCurrency. Register at:
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11/1: Nancy Fraser & David Harvey: Spiraling out of Control, On the Fate of Capital & Capitalism in the 21st Century
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Excited to announce 3 new graduate minors @TheNewSchool!. 📢 Anthropology & Design.📢 Global Mental Health.📢 Critical Perspectives on Democratic Anti-Colonialism. Learn more ➡️
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Vera List Professor of Philosophy, Richard J. Bernstein, presented his new book on Hannah Arendt, Why Read Hannah Arendt Now followed by a screening of the documentary film Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt.
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Congratulations to #NSSRfaculty @shaikhecon!. He received a 2021 Yicai (China Business Group)-@jpmorgan Financial Book of the Year Prize for the Chinese edition of his 2016 book, CAPITALISM: COMPETITION, CONFLICT, CRISIS (@OUPAcademic). Watch the ceremony:
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Excited that @democracynow welcomed @DarrickHamilton on the show today!. Did you hear Amy Goodman mention the new Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy he'll be heading at @TheNewSchool this year?.
“We Will Make Biden Do It”: Economist Darrick Hamilton on Pushing the Next Admin to the Left
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Luiza Nassif Pires just received her PhD in Economics from NSSR. Her dissertation is entitled: "Identity Conflict and Functional Income Distribution: Essays on Gender, Class Solidarity, and the Wage-Profit Frontier.". @NewSchoolAlumni.
"This crisis is accelerating the recurrent process of primitive accumulation. The capitalist system can no longer guarantee subsistence, can no longer guarantee that workers can reproduce themselves." - @luizanassif .🤯🤯🤯 #femeconCOVID19
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Excited that #NewSchoolAlumni @EmmaSaltzberg, MA Politics 2020, will be a contestant on @Jeopardy TONIGHT! . Emma, the @TheNewSchool and @NewSchoolAlumni communities will be cheering you on! Good luck! 👏🎊
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