Building on our recent event, LPE NYC Night School is examining how we can make real, lasting change in NYC. How do we contend with the outsized power of finance and real estate and build a world-class city for working-class New Yorkers? Join LPE NYC on November 19 at 6:30pm at CUNY Law School as…

Ever wonder why CUNY is no longer free? Confused why the subway fare keeps rising while service declines? Watch LPE NYC ‘s event for a conversation between Professors Gregory Louis and Mason Williams, moderated by Christy Thornton, as they try to answer these questions and more by charting the history of the political economy of…

Please join LPE NYC for the first session in our series on what it really means to make NYC affordable, October 15, 6-8pm at New York Communities for Change (470 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn, NY) This first session will look at a topic on every New Yorker’s mind when it comes to affording to live in…

The LPE Project is thrilled to be co-sponsoring, “Carceral Political Economy in the Era of Late Mass Incarceration” at the New School for Social Research, March 21-22, with The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. What is the political economy of “late” mass incarceration? How has the globally unparalleled US system of mass imprisonment remained…

The next session of the LPE Night School “Race, Space, and Displacement in NYC” will take place March 17 at 6:15pm at the New School. In a conversation facilitated by Tasleemah Tolu Lawal (NYU Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law), Alejo Rodriguez (Columbia Law/ BATTLE) and Shirley Lin (Brooklyn Law School) will discuss how institutions exploit race and immigration status as part of a divide-and-conquer…