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Citing Work of Bard Economics Professor Pavlina Tcherneva, Foreign Policy Article Argues that Public Jobs Guarantee Program Is Best Way to Address Unemployment and Climate Crises
“How can we possibly hope to address mass unemployment without economic growth? Fortunately, there’s a straightforward solution. We can fix the problem directly without needing additional growth by introducing a progressive, public job guarantee program, as proposed by economists like Stephanie Kelton, Pavlina Tcherneva, and a growing chorus of others,” writes Jason Hickel. “The idea is that anyone who signs up can train to do dignified, socially useful work (the opposite of ‘bullshit jobs’) and be paid at a living wage.” More >
Professor Walter Russell Mead Argues Climate Activists will Lose Influence over Climate Policy as National and Industrial Interests Assert Themselves in New Era of Climate Diplomacy
“If skeptics underestimate the effect the climate movement will have on the world’s economy, greens are in danger of overestimating how much their efforts will help the polar bears,” writes Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College, in the Wall Street Journal. “Paradoxically, as climate change assumes a more prominent place on the international agenda, climate activists will lose influence over climate policy.” More >
Recent News
- Bard Professor Jonathan Brent Explores the Polish Court Order Convicting Historians Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking of Libel for their Book about the Holocaust
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- Emma L. Briant on the Flawed Methodology and Grim Consequences of an Influential Study on Disinformation from the Oxford Internet Institute
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