HETERODOX ECONOMICS MEETS LAW AND POLITICAL ECONOMY:
RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY
John Jay College, 524 W 59th St New York, NY 10019 United States
Enter at 59th St (New Building) with an ID
Saturday, November 8, 2025
8:45 am – 5:00 pm ET
Co-organizers and Sponsors:
The Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law (APPEAL), a program of the LPE Collective; John Jay College Economics Department; John Jay College Law and Political Economy Society; and UMass Amherst LPE Group
Program
Room L2.85
8:45 am Light Breakfast and Gathering
9:15 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 am Keynote: Zephyr Teachout, Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Methodology Roundtable
Panelists:
Michelle Holder, Professor of Economics, John Jay College & Senior Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Jessica Forden, Doctoral Student in Economics, The New School
Reshard Kolabhai, Doctoral Student, Yale Law School
Jonah Wolf, Doctoral Student in Economics, UMass Amherst
Moderator:
Jamee K. Moudud, Professor of Economics, Sarah Lawrence College
12:15 pm Lunch Faculty Dining Room, New Building 2nd Floor
1:30 pm Emerging Scholar Presentations
Daniella Medina
A Cosmology of Formality: The Political Economy of Colonial-Capitalist Formality from Lenapehoking to New York City
Knjeri Ambrose
Saints, Sinners, and Salvation in the Racialized Debt Economy
John McLaughlin
Reconciling Competing Analyses of Democratic Crisis
Marie Therese Kane
Political Cooperatives: The Future of Left Political Work in Times of Trump
Arjun Janakiram
Neoliberalism, Reactionary Populism, and the Crisis of the State
Madhubala Pothula
Law as a Means of Dispossession: The Case of Assam
Lauren Johnston
U.S. Outsourcing Post Great Recession: Impacts on Income Distribution
B.V. Alaka
Digital Monopoly Capitalism: A Critique of Political Economy and Law
Zachary Sedefian
Crowdsourcing as Economic Imperialism
Karthik Manickam
The Construction of the Poverty Line in an Aging Economy
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Keynote: Kimberly Kracman, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University
4:45 pm Closing Remarks
5:30 pm Informal Gathering at Gossips Bar and Restaurant,
733 9th avenue (between 49th and 50th Street)
Dinner, drinks at your own expense
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