NY Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha on Democratizing Energy
OSUN-EDI welcomed NY Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha to discuss the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA), which was passed into law in 2023, its ongoing implementation, and the economics of publicly owned energy and its role in New York’s green transition. EDI Founding Director Pavlina Tcherneva will give an introduction. The presentation, followed by a moderated Q&A.
Professor and EDI Scholar Randall Wray on Modern Money Theory
Now available in Working Paper format, you can read a slightly revised version of the purposely provocative keynote presented at the FDR library for the Levy Institute Summer Seminar on Money, Finance, and Public Policy.
The Machine Age and the Human Condition: Possible Futures with Roberty Skidelsky
Lord Robert Skidelsky's EDI Keynote is centered on his new book, The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning. Nearly a century ago, in the essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” (1930), John Maynard Keynes predicted that his grandchildren’s generation would only need to be laboring a mere three hours a day, given the projected pace of technological change. Skidelsky, Keynes’s biographer, explores why that has not come to pass. The Machine Age is an ambitious survey of the impact of machines on humanity in its various aspects, peaceful and warlike, democratic and Orwellian, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
The Job Guarantee as a Tool in the Fight Against Poverty
Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, experts on poverty and employment policy, as well as leading job guarantee advocates and practitioners unpack the role of the job guarantee in the fight against poverty and the conditions under which it can be successful.
New Directions in Money, Finance & Public Policy
OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative and Levy Economics Institute welcomed scholars for a two-day, in-person workshop on new research directions in the areas of money, finance, and public policy for intersecting crises, exploring synergies between different research traditions. The event was held at Blithewood on November 3–4, 2023.
Event Program
All sessions were recorded and are available to watch online.
Assessing Global Progress in Advancing the Job Guarantee
This panel brings experts and policymakers who are developing or already managing large-scale national employment policies informed by the principles of the job guarantee. There are multi-pronged strategies for securing the right to decent work to all and developing employment-centered economic policies.
The mutating virus of global inequality
Join us for our second Economic Democracy Keynote with scholar Jayati Ghosh, Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Massachusetts- Amherst and Advisor to the United Nations HLAB on Economic and Social Affairs.
When Jobs Return: Results from Marienthal's Fight against Unemployment with Lukas Lehner
Lukas Lehner, of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford Martin School, presented the results from a study that evaluates a one-of-a-kind job creation program in Marienthal, Austria. The pilot aims to eliminate long-term unemployment in the municipality and improve participants’ economic and social situation. The program was recently discussed in the New Yorker.
Global Forum on Democratizing Work
WORK: DEMOCRATIZE, DECOMMODIFY, REMEDIATE
5–7 October 2021 / Online
Registration opens June 1st
You’re invited to the first-ever Global Forum on Democratizing Work co-sponsored by the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative.
William "Sandy" Darity Awarded with Honorary Doctorate
Faculty Sponsor OSUN-EDI Director, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Bard College has awarded William "Sandy" Darity with an Honorary Doctorate (Spring 2021).