Economics
September 25, 2009 - Dr. Matt Huber is in residence at the IAS during the fall of 2009 with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant. He argues that the geopolitical fixation on petroleum resources emerges out of historically specific relationships between fossil fuel energy, capitalism, and everyday social reproduction.
Discussion on the Minneapolis Housing Crisis, with Ryan Allen and Jeff Crump, April 20, 2009
"Icelandic Scandals: deCODE Genetics and Other Tales of Excess and Bankruptcy": A presentation by Mike Fortun, April 16, 2009
April 14, 2009 - Michael Fortun is a professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His most recent work is Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation (2008).
"The Green New Deal": A talk with Melinda Cooper, April 14, 2009
December, 2007 - Erik Olin Wright is a professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
November, 2007 - Kairn Klieman is a professor of History at the University of Houston where she works with both the pre-colonial history of central Africa and, more recently, the cultural and historical consequencs of the oil industry in post-colonial Africa.