Friday, March 28, TWO TIMES:
12 p.m.: UT campus, LBJ Conference Room (5.160) of the CMA building,
AND 8 p.m.: Monkeywrench Books, 110 E. North Loop.

“TINA Be Damned: Alternatives to Corporate Capitalism,” Two talks by Robin Hahnel will question the logic of TINA – Margaret Thatcher’s famous statement that “there is no alternative” to capitalism. Drawing on his work on participatory economics, Hahnel will discuss other economic models and examine political strategies for moving toward a more just distribution of resources. During the last year Hahnel has worked in Venezuela for the Centro Internacional Miranda – the Planning Ministry – and the new Ministry for the Communal Economy.

Currently a professor of economics at American University in Washington, DC, Hahnel also has taught at universities in England, Peru, and Cuba. He has collaborated with Michael Albert in writing on participatory economics (Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century and The Political Economy of Participatory Economics) and is also the author of three recent books analyzing the global economy (Panic Rules! Everything You Need to Know About the Global Economy; The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach; and Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation).