UPCOMING EVENTS

 

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group: 

 

January 23, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am EST Via Zoom

 

Join Joanna Kusiak for a discussion of her book, Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future,Cambridge University Press (2024) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009516914. The book reflects on an activist housing campaign that used constitutional protections for property rights to expropriate urban apartments owned by corporate speculators. Professor Kusiak is a Junior Research Fellow at King’s College, University of Cambridge.

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For questions, contact appeal@politicaleconomylaw.org

Next Session:

 

Friday Feb. 20, at 3pm EST. Zoe Sherman will present her work in progress, Capital, Trademark, and the Properties of Intellect.   The paper is part of a project exploring capitalism and the marketplace of ideas, building on the author’s expertise in connecting economics and culture.  Register here to receive the zoom link and the reading.

Zoe Sherman is a political economist and economic historian.  She holds a Ph.D. from UMass-Amherst, was a professor of economics at Merrimack College for 10 years, and has been a member of the Dollars & Sense collective since 2014.  She is the author of Modern Advertising and the Market for Audience Attention:  The US Advertising Industry’s Turn-or-the-Twentieth Century Transition (Routledge 2020). Her recent writing for Dollars & Sense is available here .

For questions, contact appeal@politicaleconomylaw.org.  We welcome suggestions for readings and presenters!

 

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