Social and Political Economy

Using a social analysis of the economy is crucial for serving our goals of social justice.  Below are links to some of our faculty with specific interests in social and political economy.

Faculty (Qualitative)

Related Publications

Babb, Sarah. 2001. Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Derber, Charles.  People Before Profit:  The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis
New York: St. Martin's press, 2002

Salzinger, Leslie.  Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico�s Global Factories. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).

Schor, J.  The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, (New York: Basic Books) January, 1992. Paperback edition 1993. Japanese edition (Tokyo: Mado-Sha) 1993. Spanish edition 1995. (chapter two reprinted in Anita Garey and Karen Hansen, Families: Kinship and Domestic Politics in the U.S., Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.) Excerpted in Henri Nouwen et al, Simpler Living Compassionate Life (Living the Good News: Denver) 1999.