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Environmental Humanities: Stephen Macekura on The Mismeasure of Progress

Event Type
Other
Sponsor
Environmental Humanities Research Cluster, Humanities Research Institute
Date
Mar 4, 2021   2:00 - 3:00 pm  
Speaker
Stephen Macekura
Registration
Link
Contact
Pollyanna Rhee
E-Mail
cyrhee@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

A book talk and conversation on Stephen Macekura's The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2020), which explores critiques of economic growth across the twentieth-century world by revealing how reformers have challenged and sought to rethink "growth." Stephen Macekura is Associate Professor of Global and International Studies at Indiana University and a scholar of US and international history focusing on political economy, international development, U.S. foreign relations, and environmentalism.

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