Philip Rathgeb: What Kind of Social Policy Does the European Populist Right Want?

Philip Rathgeb is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh and an Associated Fellow in the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute and held visiting positions at Harvard University, Lund University, and the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). His research and teaching interests fall in the areas of comparative politics and political economy, with a particular focus on welfare states, labor relations, party politics, and social inequality. More generally, his work seeks to understand the relationship between capitalism and democracy over time.

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Our next book club meeting will take place on June 15th. It will once again be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet at 7pm EST and will be reading Wide Sargasso Sea. All are welcome!

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Soraj Hongladarom on Buddhism, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Professor Soraj Hongladarom is professor of philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. He has published books and articles on diverse issues as bioethics, computer ethics, and the roles that science and technology play in the culture of Eastern countries. His concern is mainly on how science and technology can be integrated into the life-world of people in the so-called ‘Third World’ countries, and what kind of ethical considerations can be obtained from such relations. A large part of this question concerns how information technology is integrated in the lifeworld of the Thai people, and especially how such integration is expressed in the use of information technology in education. He is the editor, together with Charles Ess, of Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives, published by IGI Global. His works have also appeared in Bioethics, The Information Society, AI & Society, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, and Social Epistemology, among others.

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Elisa Palagi on R>G (and why inequality matters)

Elisa Palagi is a Ph.D. student in Economics at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. She is also a Fellow of the World Inequality Lab (WIL). Her research interests focus on economic inequality, its determinants and its impact on macroeconomic dynamics, both from an empirical and a theoretical point of view.

Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash

Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash

Gianni De Fraja on Covid-19 and the Future of City Centers

Gianni De Fraja is Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham, Professor of Public Economics (part-time) at the Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" and Research Fellow at CEPR. He has been Head of the Economics department at the University of Leicester, where he held the William Tyler Chair in Economics; previously he worked at the Universities of York and Bristol, and held visiting posts in Tokyo, Bonn and Barcelona. He received a DPhil from Oxford in 1989, and before that studied in Pisa and Siena. His research interests are in the areas of labour and public economics, and the economics of education. He has published in Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Rand Journal of Economics among others.

Photo by Sean Benesh on Unsplash

Photo by Sean Benesh on Unsplash

Owa Brandstein, Camille Kelly and Carl E. Johnson on The Emotional Impact of Gentrification

When discussing the impact of gentrification, frequent topics include affordable housing, rising cost of living, and the displacement of long time residents. But what are some other, less quantifiable consequences of a neighborhood's demographic and economic transformation? What happens to your childhood memories when the people living on the street you grew up now treat you like an unwanted guest? In this episode of "A Correction Podcast", guest host Owa Brandstein speaks with two people who grew up on South Portland Ave in Fort Greene Brooklyn about the Emotional Impact of Gentrification. Owa Brandstein is 49 yrs old and born in Western Massachusetts. He is a lifelong educator and currently works as a School Improvement Lead for the Brooklyn North Field Support Center. He and his wife Grace live in Bedford Stuyvesant with his 12 year old daughter, Ona. Camille Kelly is 47 yrs old and was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Her current job is a DEI consultant and trainer. Camille currently lives on the Upper East side of Manhattan with her husband, Anton Kelly, and their two rambunctious boys, Rhys (11) and Tristan (9). Carl E. Johnson is 50 yrs old and was born to Edward and Patricia Johnson in New York Hospital. Carl is the Division Director for Transformative Mentoring Services at The Children’s Village, is married to Jessica Duval for 6 years, and is the father of 4.

Both Carl and Camille spent their childhood living on South Portland Ave in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Camille, Owa and Carl all went to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst between 1990-1995.

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Delton Chen on The Carbon Coin (If you read The Ministry for the Future this episode is for you!)

Delton Chen is a geo-hydrologist and civil engineer. Delton holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia. Delton has 20 years of combined experience in groundwater management, environmental impact assessments, mining, geothermal energy and climate mitigation; and he analyzed the mitigation potential of fly-ash cement and low-flow water taps for Project Drawdown. Delton is a thought-leader in the development of new public policies based on Central Bank Digital Currencies, and he is a member of the Blockchain Climate Institute. Delton founded the Global Carbon Reward Initiative in 2013.

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Stefano Ugolini on Helicopter Money

Stefano Ugolini is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse (Sciences Po Toulouse and LEREPS). He was educated at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (MA modern history, 2004), Sciences Po, Paris (PhD international finance, 2009), and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (Norges Bank post-doctoral fellowship, 2010). A specialist in monetary and financial history, he has contributed to the research projects of a number of central banks. Dr Ugolini’s research provides long-term views on topical economic issues, including – among others – central banking, monetary policy, foreign exchange regimes, financial crises, economic integration, market microstructure, and the microeconomics of banking. He is the author of The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

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Yana Stainova on Musical Enchantment in Venezuela

Yana Stainova is a sociocultural anthropologist and an Assistant Professor at McMaster University. She is interested in art, urban poverty, social inequality, migration, and the lived experience of violence in Latin America. Her research explores how people summon music practices to pursue visions of social justice in the face of political turmoil and barriers to immigration. Her first book project entitled Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela studies how young people coming of age in the urban barrios of Caracas use music and stories to push back against the forces of everyday violence, social exclusion, and state repression. Her second book project, tentatively titled The Politics of Joy: Collective Art Practices across the US-Mexico Border focuses on Latinx migration and artistic practices in North America.

A correction: El Sistema was founded in 1975. Hugo Chávez won the Venezuelan election held in 1998 but officially assumed power in 1999.

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We are now offering FREE classes through BERGEN GREEN. Our online political economy class just started Wednesday 3/3 (but it’s not too late to sign up!) and is open to all. Check out the full list of offerings here.

Rajeev Dehejia on School Choice

Rajeev Dehejia is Professor of Economics and Public Service and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. He is also the co-director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1997. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Economics and The Fletcher School at Tufts University and of the Department of Economics and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Princeton, and the London School of Economics.

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We are now offering FREE classes through BERGEN GREEN. Our online political economy class just started last Wednesday 3/3 (it’s not too late to sign up!) and is open to all. Check out the full list of offerings here.

Professor Nkechi Madonna Agwu and Indigenous African Mathematics in Modern Education

Professor Nkechi Madonna Agwu has taught mathematics for over 30 years in Nigeria and the United States. She is a Professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), City University of New York (CUNY). She is a generalist, in that her research, teaching, and scholarship intersects with the sciences, arts, social sciences, and humanities. She is a recipient of a Carnegie Africa Diaspora Fellowship, and the Founder of CHI STEM TOYS Foundation, an NGO geared towards facilitating STEM and entrepreneurship education among under-represented groups of people, particularly girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), and in rural and vulnerable communities in Africa.

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We are now offering FREE classes through BERGEN GREEN. Our online political economy class just started last Wednesday 3/3 (it’s not too late to sign up!) and is open to all. Check out the full list of offerings here.