Invitation to 2012 Global Political Economy seminar series
Invitation to 2012 Global Political Economy seminar series - Herman Schwartz
The Department of Society and Globalisation (ISG) invites you to the the 2012 Global Political Economy Seminar Series with Herman Schwartz (University of Virginia)
Monday, 20 February 2012 15.15 -17.00, RUC Building 25.3
Where’s Main Street? Collective action, production structures and the problems securing a new and stable regime of accumulation.
The current system of economic governance in the OECD countries clearly does not produce stability. Much like the great depressions of the 1870s and 1930s and the great inflation of the 1970s, the on-going global financial crisis has revealed the inadequacies and contradictions of existing institutions and social practices regulating accumulation at the macro-economic level. Herman Schwartz will address three questions about this instability:
- Why didn’t “main street” organize against an increasingly predatory financial sector?
- Can a new form of regulation emerge from the current crisis?
- What is the utility, if any, of an evolutionary economics perspective on the current crisis of regulation?
Herman Schwartz is Professor at the Department of Politics, University of Virginia. His recent publications include Subprime Nation. American Power, Global Capital, and the Housing Bubble (Cornell 2009), The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts (edited by Herman Schwartz and Leonard Seabrooke) (Palgrave 2009) and the 3rd edition of States Versus Markets. The Emergence of a Global Economy (Palgrave 2010).
Join us for the presentation, discussion and drinks afterwards! For more information please contact Laura Horn (lhorn(at)ruc.dk).
Forthcoming lectures in the 2012 Global Political Economy Seminar Series:
March - Tim Shaw (UMass, Boston and Aalborg University)
April - Raphael Kaplinsky (OpenUniversity)
Read Herman Schwartz´s paper <media 12489>here</media>