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.
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.
EDI Panels at the 2022 Difference & Justice Conference
"Basic Human Rights: What Does an Equitable Future Look Like?"
11:00 - 11:50 AM The Right to a Home: The Intersections of Housing and Racial Justice
1:30 - 2:20 PM Economic Rights and Economic Security
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.
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).
Upcoming Events
- 6/12MondayBard College Campus
- 6/15Thursday1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential LibraryThursday, June 15, 2023
James K Galbraith, Tilting at Windmills: The Economics and Politics of the Fed's Fight Against Inflation
2023 Summer Workshop Keynote Lecture
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at University of Texas, Austin, will deliver the Summer 2023 EDI Keynote lecture at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential library.
Part of the OSUN-EDI Summer Workshop in Public Finance and Economic Policy, this in-person event is open to the public.
Limited space, RSVP required. Please register at bit.ly/galbraith_keynote.
For more information, email [email protected]