Check out the program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at ppe.gmu.edu.
The southside group is a biweekly lunch group composed of George Mason faculty and students. We are open to anyone interested in participating in an eclectic and serious discussion of contemporary problems under the broad rubric of political economy.
Learn MoreThis lecture and workshop examine the character and strategies of economic development in authoritarian regimes. It emphasizes state- business relations and the combination of neoliberal prescriptions, class, and institutions of authoritarian control.
Learn MoreThis lecture and workshop address the intricacies and intersections of oil, authoritarian rule, and regional/international relations in the Arabian Peninsula. The focus will be on the structures of oil economies and implications thereof.
Learn MoreFocusing on the impressive mobility of multinational corporations and the extensive dispersal of their supply chains across the globe often leads analysts to assume that supply chains exemplify the logic of neoliberalism. However, supply chains rely on practices which run counter to neoliberal self-understandings, and complicate their relationship to the freedom of workers and consumers.
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