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Union for Radical Political Economics and the Brecht Forum present:
THE POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF PALESTINE AND ISRAEL:
UNDER-EXPLORED ASPECTS OF THE CONFLICT
Speakers: JEROME JOFFE, KAREN PFEIFER
Moderator: MICHAEL ZWEIG
Thursday, June 1, 7:30pm
at the Brecht Forum
NEW ADDRESS: 451 West St. (West Side Highway between Bank and Bethune)
See website for directions
www.brechtforum.org
212-242-4201
$6/$10/$15 suggested donation
Please choose a flyer for this panel to post at your school, job or organization and send to your friends:
http://urpe.org/PalesIsrBW.pdf (print with black ink) or
http://urpe.org/PalesIsrCol.pdf (full color)
For our complete spring program:
http://urpe.org/BrechtSpring06.pdf
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Last summer Jerry Joffe participated in a fact-finding tour of Palestine, sponsored by Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace. He traveled extensively throughout the West Bank in search of a deeper understanding of how the economy of Palestine works, and of how economic circumstances frame the political prospects for peace between Israel and Palestine. Jerry will report on what he learned about the many obstacles to economic development in Palestine during the years of the Israeli occupation.
Because the economies of Israel and Palestine are so closely intertwined, economic policies and circumstances in Israel have a strong effect on Palestine, above and beyond whatever is going on politically. Karen Pfeifer, who has studied and taught about the economies of many countries in the Middle East, will talk about Israel's economy: its strengths, its vulnerabilities, and their dialectic.
About the Speakers:
Jerome Joffe teaches at St. John’s University, Division of Social Science, Program in Health Care Administration. His publications include "The U.S. Health Care System, A Reproduction Crisis" in Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism (M.E. Sharpe) and articles on Long Term Care (Home Health Care Services Quarterly), Health Care Costs (Journal of Economic Issues), Physician Productivity (Public Health Reports) and Health Utilization (Inquiry). Jerry recently joined a tour of Palestine sponsored by Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace and has written a report which is on their website.
Karen Pfeifer is a Professor of Economics at Smith College and has taught there since 1979. She has served as an editor of Research in Middle East Economics and of Middle East Report. Pfeifer's main teaching fields are alternative economic theory and comparative economic systems, with research focused on economic development and social change in the Middle East and North Africa. She has done research in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Palestinian Territories. Her most recent scholarly projects concern rebuilding devastated economies in the Middle East and the Euro-Med Partnership Initiative.
Michael Zweig (moderator) is a Professor of Economics at SUNY Stony Brook and Director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life, located at Stony Brook. Recent books include "The Working Class Majority" and "What's Class Got to Do with It?"
THE POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF PALESTINE AND ISRAEL:
UNDER-EXPLORED ASPECTS OF THE CONFLICT
Speakers: JEROME JOFFE, KAREN PFEIFER
Moderator: MICHAEL ZWEIG
Thursday, June 1, 7:30pm
at the Brecht Forum
NEW ADDRESS: 451 West St. (West Side Highway between Bank and Bethune)
See website for directions
www.brechtforum.org
212-242-4201
$6/$10/$15 suggested donation
Please choose a flyer for this panel to post at your school, job or organization and send to your friends:
http://urpe.org/PalesIsrBW.pdf (print with black ink) or
http://urpe.org/PalesIsrCol.pdf (full color)
For our complete spring program:
http://urpe.org/BrechtSpring06.pdf
********************************************
Last summer Jerry Joffe participated in a fact-finding tour of Palestine, sponsored by Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace. He traveled extensively throughout the West Bank in search of a deeper understanding of how the economy of Palestine works, and of how economic circumstances frame the political prospects for peace between Israel and Palestine. Jerry will report on what he learned about the many obstacles to economic development in Palestine during the years of the Israeli occupation.
Because the economies of Israel and Palestine are so closely intertwined, economic policies and circumstances in Israel have a strong effect on Palestine, above and beyond whatever is going on politically. Karen Pfeifer, who has studied and taught about the economies of many countries in the Middle East, will talk about Israel's economy: its strengths, its vulnerabilities, and their dialectic.
About the Speakers:
Jerome Joffe teaches at St. John’s University, Division of Social Science, Program in Health Care Administration. His publications include "The U.S. Health Care System, A Reproduction Crisis" in Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism (M.E. Sharpe) and articles on Long Term Care (Home Health Care Services Quarterly), Health Care Costs (Journal of Economic Issues), Physician Productivity (Public Health Reports) and Health Utilization (Inquiry). Jerry recently joined a tour of Palestine sponsored by Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace and has written a report which is on their website.
Karen Pfeifer is a Professor of Economics at Smith College and has taught there since 1979. She has served as an editor of Research in Middle East Economics and of Middle East Report. Pfeifer's main teaching fields are alternative economic theory and comparative economic systems, with research focused on economic development and social change in the Middle East and North Africa. She has done research in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Palestinian Territories. Her most recent scholarly projects concern rebuilding devastated economies in the Middle East and the Euro-Med Partnership Initiative.
Michael Zweig (moderator) is a Professor of Economics at SUNY Stony Brook and Director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life, located at Stony Brook. Recent books include "The Working Class Majority" and "What's Class Got to Do with It?"
