Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors ALAN a ja is Assistant Professor and Deputy Chair in the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at CUNY Brooklyn College. His recent publications include an essay in Souls:A CriticalJournal ofBlackPolitics, Culture and Society(Fall 2012). d a v id b r o m w ic h is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. d a n ie l b u s t i l l o is an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University’s School of Social Work and a doctoral student at Columbia in social policy and administration. His research interests include the racial wealth gap, alt labor structures, and community based organizations. m i c h a e l a . c o h e n is Professor of International Affairs and Director ofthe Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School. He is currently completing a book on Argentina’s recovery from the economic crisis o f2001. w il l ia m d a r it y , j r . is the Arts and Sciences Professor of Public Policy, Professor ofAfrican and AfricanAmerican Studies and Economics. He is also Director ofthe Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality. GARY d y m s k i is Professor and Chair in Applied Economics at the Leeds University Business School, University ofLeeds. He has published extensively on subjects including financial fragil­ ity, urban development, credit market discrimination, and the subprime lend­ ing crisis. t e r e s a g h i l a r d u c c i is the Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Chair in Economic PolicyAnalysis and Director ofthe Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School. Her recent book, WhenI’m Sixty-Four: ThePlotagainst Pensionsand thePlanto Save Them(2008) discusses developing systems to guaran­ tee all working people a dignified and secure retirement. DARRICK HAMILTON, Associate Professor at Milano-The New School for International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy and a faculty research fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic PolicyAnalysis at The New School, studies the causes, consequences, and remedies ofracial and ethnic inequality in economic and health outcomes. d a v id R. h o w e l l is Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Faculty Research Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic PolicyAnalysis at The New School, and a Research Scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute (Univesity ofMassachusetts, Amherst). t e r r a l a w s o n -r e m e r is Fellow for Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy at the Council on Foreign Relations, Assistant Professor ofInternational Affairs at The New School, where she serves as chair of the university’s advisory committee on investor responsibility, and a Harvard Law School fellow. St e p h e n a . m a r g l in holds the Walter S Barker Chair in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His latest book, The Dismal Science: How ThinkingLike an Economist Undermines Community (2008), looked at how the foundational assumptions of economics make community invisible to economists. r i c h a r d m c g a h e y is Director o f the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program and Professor of Professional Practice in Public Policy and Economics at the Milano School of InternationalAffairs, Management, and Urban Policy. He is a nationally recognized expert on urban and regional economic development, triple bottomline investing, retirement policy, and workforce development. w il l ia m m i l b e r g , Dean and Professor o f Economics at The New School for Social Research, studies the relation­ ship between globalization and income distribution. His most recent book is OutsourcingEconomics: Global Value Chains in CapitalistDevelopment (with Winkler, 2013). r o b e r t p o l l in is Professor ofEconomics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His books include Contours ofDescent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape ofGlobalAusterity (2003) and Backto FullEmployment (2012). Ch r i s t i a n r . p r o a n o is Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social...