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Economics

Economics ECON

The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Economics, Political Science, Russian, Russian and East European Studies, and Global Security
Fritz Bartel is a diplomatic historian at Texas A&M University. His book on the end of the Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2022), The Triumph of Broken Promises, has been widely praised for its political-economic interpretation of the demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of neo-liberalism in the United States.

Co-sponsored by the International Politics & Economics program

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Bold Action on a Burning Planet: Envisioning an Escalation of Tactics and Increased Community Resilience

Sponsored by:
Economics, Environmental Studies, Political Science, and Food Studies
Chuck Collins is coming to campus this fall! He is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies in DC, and the author of a new book, Altar to an Erupting Sun. The book has won praise from Bill McKibben, Kim Stanley Robinson and Winona LaDuke, among others, and asks us to confront our moral obligations to act in the face of climate change.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public