Center for Popular Economics

The Center for Popular Economics (CPE), founded in 1978, is a non-profit collective of over 60 progressive economists that works to promote economic justice and sustainability through civic education, economic de-mystification and by bridging the academic-community divide. CPE’s programs and publications demystify the economy and put useful economic tools in the hands of people fighting for social and economic justice. The annual week-long summer institute and taliored workshops examine root causes of economic inequality and injustice including systems of oppression based on race, class, gender, nation and ethnicity. They also produce the Econ-Atrocities and Econ-Utopian, which are twice monthly electronic briefs on economic stories that outrage and inspire.[1]

The founding members of the center are Samuel Bowles, Juliet Schor, Diane Flaherty, David Kotz, and Tom Riddell. Advisory committee members include Howard Zinn and Barbra Ehrenreich. The center is based in Amherst, Massachusetts.

CPE supports and stands with the Occupy movement. In 2012 CPE produced a resource booklet, "Economics for the 99%", hoped to be of use to activists and for anyone protesting to build a more just and sustainable economic system.[2]


Books

Field Guide to the U.S. Economy (The New Press 2006)

References

  1. ↑ "UMarmot - Center for Popular Economics". University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
  2. ↑ "Economics for the 99%". Center for Popular Economics.


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