Center for Popular Economics
Encyclopedia
The Center for Popular Economics (CPE) ,founded in 1978, is a non-profit collective of over 60 progressive economists that works to promote economic justice and sustainability through civic education, economic de-mystification and by bridging the academic-community divide. CPE’s programs and publications demystify the economy and put useful economic tools in the hands of people fighting for social and economic justice. The annual week long summer institute and taliored workshops examine root causes of economic inequality and injustice including systems of oppression
based on race, class, gender, nation and ethnicity. They also produce the Econ-Atrocities and Econ-Utopian, which are twice monthly electronic briefs on economic stories that outrage and inspire.
Founding members: Samuel Bowles
, Juliet Schor
, Diane Flaherty, David Kotz, Tom Riddell
Advisory committees include: Howard Zinn
, Barbra Ehrenreich
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Oppression
Oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. It can also be defined as an act or instance of oppressing, the state of being oppressed, and the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, and...
based on race, class, gender, nation and ethnicity. They also produce the Econ-Atrocities and Econ-Utopian, which are twice monthly electronic briefs on economic stories that outrage and inspire.
Founding members: Samuel Bowles
Samuel Bowles (economist)
Samuel Bowles is an American economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught courses on microeconomics and the theory of institutions.- Biography :...
, Juliet Schor
Juliet Schor
Juliet Schor is a Professor of sociology at Boston College. She studies trends in working time and leisure, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and economic justice. She received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D in economics from the...
, Diane Flaherty, David Kotz, Tom Riddell
Advisory committees include: Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...
, Barbra Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich
-Early life:Ehrenreich was born Barbara Alexander to Isabelle Oxley and Ben Howes Alexander in Butte, Montana, which she describes as then being "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town."...
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Articles
- Teaching radical economics: the Center for Popular Economics and its international institutes
- Daily Ireland Article about Summer Institute