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Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies
from 2020 NSSR Viewbook
The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies brings together faculty and students for interdisciplinary conversations around theoretical approaches to and analytic methods for the study of capitalism in its myriad forms.
Affiliated faculty and students share a commitment to critical thought, ethical reflection, and real-world relevance in their research fields, which include the history of capitalism, economic sociology, international political economy, heterodox economics, critical theory, economic anthropology, and science and technology studies. Our graduate and undergraduate courses examine the basic logic of capitalism (as conceived by a range of theorists), its culturally and historically specific varieties, and its ability to structure our political possibilities and creative endeavors. Through interdisciplinary research and teaching, the Center for Capitalism Studies aims to develop and promote theoretical and analytic tools that can help its scholars envision and instantiate different and better economies—local and global—for the future.
The Center for Capitalism Studies seeks to devise a common language with which capitalism can be understood, analyzed, interpreted, and engaged—with rigor, with precision, and in a manner that is accessible to the broadest possible audience. Our program supports diverse inquiries into the major structuring force in contemporary society, posing questions both timeless and pressing.
