Seminars

  • Founded
    1987
  • Seminar Number
    613

The seminar focuses on the analytical and policy issues related to full employment, social welfare, and equity. These include crossnational perspectives, primarily in other industrialized economies. The purpose is to identify and clarify the more difficult and central intellectual questions which relate to and affect the national commitment and capability to assure full employment, social welfare, and equity over long periods.


Co-Chairs
Andrés Bernal
abernal86@gmail.com

Dr. Sheila Collins
sheiladreanycollins@gmail.com

Dr. Gertrude S. Goldberg
trudygoldberg@njfac.org

Rapporteur
Bjorn Long
bdl2132@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

10/11/2022 Faculty House, Columbia University
7:15 PM
TBD
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11/15/2022 Faculty House, Columbia University
7:15 PM
TBD
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02/07/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University
7:15 PM
The State of New York Unions in 2022: Recent Trends in Union Membership, Activity, and Bargaining
Gregory DeFreitas, Hofstra University
Abstract

Abstract

The recent historic union victories at Amazon, Apple, and Starbucks have raised the prospect of a possible resurgence of U.S. labor organizing. Nowhere is this trend more apparent than in the New York Metro Area, site of some of the first-ever union election wins at large retail and new media firms. Is this growing activism actually translating into greater union strength? Join us for a discussion of a new report with the latest findings on current union membership trends nationwide and detailed analysis of unionization in New York City and its suburbs.





04/04/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University
7:15 PM
The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights
Mark Paul, Rutgers University
Abstract

Abstract

Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. For some, freedom meant the provision of life’s necessities, those basic conditions for the “pursuit of happiness.” For others, freedom meant the civil and political rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and unfettered access to the marketplace—nothing more. The latter interpretation—thanks in large part to a particularly influential cadre of economists—has all but won out among policymakers, with dire repercussions for American society: rampant inequality, endemic poverty, and an economy built to benefit the few at the expense of the many.





05/01/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University
7:15 PM
TBD
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