ASSA and Jet Blue

by Dollars and Sense

Things may be relatively quiet on the D&S blog for the first week of 2009, as our busiest blogger (yours truly, D&S co-editor Chris Sturr) will be at the annual economics meetings, grandiosely named the Allied Social Sciences Association meetings (as if economists were the only social scientists!) in San Francisco.

I am excited to be flying via JetBlue; since they are in the midst of a union drive, with an election coming up soon, maybe I can give the workers some moral support.

If you are going to the ASSA meetings, stop by the ICAPE exhibit table (602(B), I think) to say hello--I will be there hawking D&S books. And stop by the panel I'll be speaking on, sponsored by the Union for Radical Political Economics. Info on the panel (note the august company I'll be in):

Jan. 3, 12:30 pm
URPE
Using Economics for Social Change: Five Organizations Report (A1)

Presiding: LANE VANDERSLICE, World Hunger Education Service

HEIDI HARTMANN, Institute for Women’s Policy Research--Shaping U.S. Policy to Address the Needs of Women and their Families

CHRIS STURR, Dollars and Sense--Bringing Left Economic Analysis to Activists, Students, and the General Public

LAWRENCE MISHEL, Economic Policy Institute--Shaping the US Debate On Policies Affecting Working People Through Empirical and Policy Analysis

KEVIN DANAHER, Global Exchange--Implementing Fair Trade, a Green Economy and Other Steps To Economic Justice

DAVID BARKIN, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco--Principles for Constructing Alternative Socio-Economic Organizations

Discussants:
LANE VANDERSLICE, World Hunger Education Service
JOHN WEEKS, University of London

Happy New Year!

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12/31/2008 04:41:00 PM