Economics

Speaker: Scott Rozelle

Speaker: Hilary Hoynes, U. C. Berkeley (P’ 19)

Title: Social safety Net Investments in Children

Today, no society is immune from the effects of capitalism. In Haiti “Batay La,” or the struggle, has been ongoing since before the slave revolution that founded the Caribbean nation. Batay La examines the current anti-imperialist movement in Haiti, led for decades by grassroots workers’ rights organization Batay Ouvriye (Workers Fight). Founded in 1994, Batay Ouvriye is known throughout Haiti as a fierce, uncompromised organization dedicated to overturning the system of exploitation of poor workers.

“Free, fair, and Alive: The Commons and the Post-Capitalist Future”

Globalism and capitalism as we know it are failing us — and the evidence is all around us in the destruction of our environment, and the privatization of our shared wealth. What can we do to shift the story line, and re-write our future? What alternatives do we have at hand?

Amanda Bayer (Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College) will present about the diversity initiatives in the Economics profession. In 2016, together with nine other liberal arts colleges, the Middlebury Economics Department participated in a modest field experiment, coordinated by Amanda Bayer, in which we provided incoming students from underrepresented groups with information about a diverse array of economists and economics research.

Speaker: Chuck Collins, director for the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington D.C.

Andrew A. Samwick, Dartmouth College, will give a lecture titled “The Death of Taxes.”

Economics Department Commencement Reception for senior economics majors and their guests.