Anna Pick

Sep 17, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Anna Pick |Mark Setterfield |Yannis Bougiatiotis |Teresa Ghilarducci

Photograph from Specimens of Fancy Turning Executed on the Hand or Foot Lathe(1869) | Edward J. Woolsey / Public DomainFeathers were ruffled at Davos this year when, during a panel on “How to Trust Economics,” a speaker went rogue, accusing economists of being a “tribal clique” who only quote each other and have “blind faith” in models, however disconnected from real events they may be. The critique came not from an activist infiltrator but the European Central Bank president, Christine Lagarde.

Jun 25, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Scott Aquanno |Stephen Maher |Anna Pick |Teresa Ghilarducci

Illustration from Abhandlungen von Insecten (1764–1779) | D. Jacob Christian Schäffers / Public domainLeftist economics has struggled to counter the powerful metaphors that undergird neoliberalism. The image of the maxed-out national “credit card,” for instance, still pervades media narratives about austerity, despite economists’ best efforts to explain to reporters that government budgets are nothing like household budgets.

Apr 29, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Anna Pick |Teresa Ghilarducci |Rick McGahey |Josephine Houman

Tontine Building, Wall Street, NY, 1797 (n.d.) | George Hayward / Smithsonian American Art Museum / CC0In 1933, Ferdinand Pecora, newly appointed Chief Counsel to the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, subpoenaed Charles Mitchell, president of National City Bank (now Citibank).