Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors ravi ba g h ira th a n is a graduate student at the Graduate Faculty, New School University, and a researcher at the Center for Economic PolicyAnalysis. He is currently pursuing research in the philosophy ofscience and the history of economic thought. PETER L. BERNSTEIN is publisher of Economics&PortfolioStrategy, a newslet­ ter for institutional investors, and Consulting Editor of TheJournalofPortfolio Management. His latest book is ThePower ofGold: TheHistoryofan Obsession(2000). ROBERT w. d im a n d is a Professor of Economics at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He publishes on the history of macro­ economics, the early history of game theory, and the history of women in economics. n a n c y fo lbr e is Professor ofEconomics at the University ofMassachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of TheInvisible Heart: Economicsand FamilyValues (2001). Her newest book, OurChildren, Ourselves: RethinkingtheEconomicsoftheFamily, is in progress. d u n c a n k . fo ley is Chair and Leo Model Professor ofEconomics at the Graduate Faculty, New School University. m a th ew fo rsta ter is Associate Professor ofEconomics at the University ofMissouri, Kansas City. Forstater, who was a Teaching and ResearchAssistant of Robert Heilbroner’s from 1987 to 1992, wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on Adolph Lowe under Heilbroner’s supervision. JAMES K. GALBRAITH is Chair of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction. He holds the Lloyd BentsenJr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University ofTexas at Austin, and is Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute, Bard College. He directs the University ofTexas Inequality Project. su sa n h a a c k is internationally known for her work in logic, epistemology, philosophy ofscience, and the law of evidence. Since finishing her most recent book, DefendingScience—WithinReason: BetweenScientism and Cynicism (2003), she has written a series ofarticles on scien­ tific testimony in the courts. a r jo k la m er has been professor of cultural economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam since 1994. His numerous publications include The ValueofCulture: OntheRelationshipbetween EconomicsandArts (ed. 1996; see ). JA N k r e g e l is Senior Interregional Adviser for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, New York Liaison Office. His publications include "External Financing for Development and International Financial Instability” (XVIII Meeting, G-24 Technical Group, March 2004). w i l l i a m m i l b e r g is Associate Professor o f Economics at the New School's Graduate Faculty. He is coauthor (with Robert Heilbroner) o f The Ciisis ofVision in Modem Economic Thought and The Making of Economic Society. j u l i e a . n e l s o n is a Senior Research Associate with the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. She is the author o f Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics (1986), and coedi­ tor o f Beyond Economic Man (1993) and Eeminht Economics Today (2003). C O D R IN A r a d a is a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New School University. Her publications include “Can the Poor Countries Catch Up? Sources of Growth Accounting Give Weak Convergence for the Early 21st Centuiy” (with Taylor, CEPAWorking Paper 2003-4). w a r r e n j. s a m u e l s is Professor Emeritus o f Economics at Michigan State University. His Essays on the History of Economics is forthcom ing with Routledge in 2004. His principal research is on the use o f the concept o f the invisible hand. a n w a r s h a i k h is Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty, New School University, and Senior Scholar and m em ber ofthe Macro Modeling Team at the Levy Economics Institute, Bard College. His recent publications include "Nonlinear Dynamics and Pseudo-Production Functions" (in The Eastern EconomicsJournal, 2004). r o b e r t s o l o w is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts InstiUite o f Technology. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1987 for his theoiy o f growth. His books include A Critical Essay on Modem Macroeconomics Theoiy (with Hahn, 1995) and The labor Market...