Radical Economists Meet on Climate Change
July 16, 2010
Union of Radical Political Economists meets July 30 – August 2 in High Falls New York
Union of Radical Political Economists Summer Conference:
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND CAPITALISM
Epworth Center, High Falls, NY
July 30 – August 2, 2010
Each summer, URPE members and their families hold a 4-day workshop/retreat in an attractive rural setting. Papers and workshops, formal and informal, are presented. Ample time for leisure and social activities is built into the program: the site has wonderful hiking and free childcare will be available.
Plenaries
Causes and Consequences of Climate Change
- Joel Kovel (Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism; author, The Enemy of Nature)
- Brian Tokar (Institute for Social Ecology; author, Toward Climate Justice)
- Diana Wu (Amherst College)
Confronting Climate Change: What Works and What Doesn’t
- Michael Dorsey (Assistant Professor and Director of Climate Justice Project, Dartmouth College)
- Helen Scharber (UMass Amherst; Economists for Equity and the Environment)
- Rachel Smolker (Co-director, Biofuelwatch; organizer, Climate SOS)
David Gordon Lecture: Climate Change: Barbarism or Socialism?
- Minqi Li, University of Utah
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(Thanks to Patty Lee Parmalee for drawing our attention to this event.)
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