B.A., M.A., Ph.D., New School University. Associate professor of economics, New York University (1997–2006). Recipient, Teaching Excellence Award from NYU, 1997. Consultant and adviser to UNDP and ILO. Specialist in feminist economics, international trade and the economics of globalization, history of economic thought. Coeditor, “Unpaid Work and the Economy: Gender, Time Use, and Poverty in Developing Countries” (2010); other publications include “State, Difference, and Diversity,” “Asset Ownership along Gender Lines: Evidence from Thailand” (with Maria Sagrario Floro); “Hidden Vacancies”; “What Is Wrong with Employment Statistics? The Case of Greece,” Oikonomikos Tahidromos; “Asset Depletion among the Poor: Does Gender Matter? The Case of Thailand,” Vassar Economics Working Paper Series No. 59; “A Classical Political Economy Approach to Exchange Rates Analysis,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 31(3). Coprincipal investigator of the Gender, Macroeconomics, and International Economics program, supported by the Ford Foundation, U.N. Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and International Development and Research Centre of Canada. At Bard since 2001.

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Phone: 845-758-7717
E-mail: rania@levy.org

DeSilva is a former teaching fellow in the Department of Economics at Yale University (1996–2000). In 2000–01, he conducted postdoctoral research at Yale’s Economic Growth Center, authoring the discussion papers “Skills, Partnerships, and Tenancy in Sri Lankan Rice Farms” (2000), and “Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Rice Farms in Bicol, the Philippines” (with R. E. Evenson and A. Kimhi; 2000). Other publications include:

• “Labor Supervision and Institutional Conditions: Evidence from Bicol Rice Farms” (with R. E. Evenson an A. Kimhi), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2006; and
• “Country Case Studies: Brazil” (with A. F. D. Avila, R. E. Evenson, and F. A. de Almeida), in Evenson and D. Gollin, eds., Crop Variety Improvement and Its Effect on Productivity: The Impact of International Agricultural Research, 2003.

Desilva is the recipient of a Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, as well as doctoral research grants from the Ford Foundation and Yale University. He holds a BA from Macalester College, and MA, M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Yale.

B.A., Istanbul Bilgi University; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook. Research interests include the internal and international migration of labor, income and educational mobility in developing countries, and the measure of households’ housing wealth. He previously taught at Hamilton College, concentrating  on microeconomics, macroeconomics, health economics, and the economics of immigration.

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Phone: 845-758-7740
E-mail: eren@levy.org

B.A., M.A., Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota; M.S., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame. Research interests include monetary and fiscal policy issues in the United States and abroad, heavy-tailed distributions in macroeconomic data and modeling, money, finance, and the business cycle, Keynesian and post-Keynesian macroeconomics, and normative and social aspects of macroeconomic analysis. He has published in the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal of Socio-Economics, Review of Political Economy, Challenge, International Review of Applied Economics, and the Social Security Bulletin. A macroeconomist and monetary economist, he is a member of three Levy Institute research groups as well as the macro-modeling team behind the Strategic Analysis series.

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Phone: 845-758-7721
E-mail: hannsgen@levy.org

Ph.D., Rutgers University. Life fellow of the Royal Economic Society (UK); member, Società Italiana degli Economisti; recipient, Veblen-Commons Award (2010).

Professor of Development Finance, Tallinn University of Technology; Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Rapporteur of the President of the U.N. General Assembly’s Commission on Reform of the International Financial System, 2009. Formerly Director, Policy Analysis and Development Branch, U.N. Financing for Development Office, and Deputy Secretary, U.N. Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters. Previously taught at the Università degli Studi di Bologna and the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He has published in the Economic Journal, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Economie Appliquée, and Giornale degli Economisti. Major works include Rate of Profit, Distribution and Growth: Two Views (1971); The Theory of Economic Growth (1972); Theory of Capital (1976); Origini e sviluppo dei mercati finanziari (1996); and Ragnar Nurkse: Trade and Development (with R. Kattel and E. S. Reinert; 2009).

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E-mail: kregel@levy.org

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Research interests include the distribution of land, income, and wealth. Works primarily on the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being, an alternative, household-based measure that reflects the resources that the household can command for facilitating current consumption or acquiring physical or financial assets. Codeveloper, Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty. Coeditor, Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and Planet—Papers and Reports from the 2009 U.S. Forum on the Solidarity Economy, 2010.

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Phone: 845-758-7715
E-mail: masterso@levy.org

M.A., Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Teaching and research interests include microeconomics; game theory; industrial organization; developmental economics; the economics of race, ethnicity, and gender; and the economics of migration. His research employs both theoretical and empirical methods to investigate the phenomena of discrimination, ethnic conflict, and the international migration of skilled labor. He has published in Applied Economics Letters, Eastern Economic Journal, Mathematical Social Sciences, and Economic Systems. He previously taught at Middlebury College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At Bard since 2012.

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Phone: 845-758-6822 x6019
E-mail: amitra@bard.edu

B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., Graduate Faculty of the New School University, Department of Economics. Visiting Distinguished Scholar, Institute of World Economy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2002). Visiting scholar, Center for Economic Planning and Research, Athens; Wye Fellow, Aspen Institute (1985); Center for Advanced Economic Studies Fellowship (1983, 1986); Whittemore Fellowship (1968); Anglo-American Hellenic Fellowship (1968, 1969). Consultant, Greek Ministry of Education (2002–05); board of directors, William Penn Life Insurance Company (1972–2010); vice chairman, Trade Deficit Review Commission, U.S. Congress (1999–2001); member, Capital Allocation Subcouncil of the Competitiveness Policy Council (1993–98). Trustee and chairman, American Symphony Orchestra; advisory board member, Women’s World Banking; fellow, Economists for Peace and Security; member, Economic Club of New York, The Bretton Woods Committee, American Economic Association, American Finance Association, Association for Evolutionary Economics, Royal Economic Society (UK), Eastern Economic Association, European Economic Association, and Hellenic-American Bankers Association. Articles in International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, The Milken Institute Review, Analyst, Journal of Applied Business Research, Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, Eastern Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economic Studies, Working USA, Journal of Economic Issues, Review of Political Economy, The Economic Journal, Challenge, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, New York Times, European Journal of Political Economy. Editor and contributor, Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance: Essays in Honor of Hyman P. Minsky, with Steven M. Fazzari (1992); Profits, Deficits, and Instability (1992); Poverty and Prosperity in the U.S.A. in the Late Twentieth Century, with Edward N. Wolff (1993); Aspects of the Distribution of Wealth and Income (1994); Stability in the Financial System (1996); Modernizing Financial Systems (2000); Hyman P. Minsky’s Induced Investment and Business Cycles (2004); The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation (2006); Government Spending on the Elderly (2007); Hyman P. Minsky’s John Maynard Keynes and Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, with L. Randall Wray (2008); The Elgar Companion to Hyman Minsky, with Wray (2010); Contributions in Stock-flow Modeling: Essays in Honor of Wynne Godley, with Gennaro Zezza (2012); The Collected Economic Papers of Hyman P. Minsky (forthcoming). Author, Levy Institute Strategic Analysis reports; the Public Policy Briefs Community Development Banking and A Path to Community Development with Ronnie J. Phillips and Wray; An Alternative in Small Business Finance, Targeting Inflation: The Effects of Monetary Policy on the CPI and Its Housing Component, Does Social Security Need Saving? and Fiddling in Euroland as the Global Meltdown Nears with Wray; Endgame for the Euro with Wray and Yeva Nersisyan; Monetary Policy Uncovered, Understanding Deflation: Treating the Disease, Not the Symptoms, and Cracks in the Foundations of Growth with Greg Hannsgen and Zezza; The New New Deal Fracas, Debts, Deficits, Economic Recovery, and the U.S. Government, Will the Recovery Continue: Four Fragile Markets, Four Years Later, and Fiscal Traps and Macro Policy after the Eurozone Crisis with Hannsgen; the Policy Note Fiscal Stimulus, Job Creation, and the Economy: What Are the Lessons of the New Deal with Hannsgen; and, with Wray, the Policy Notes Fiscal Policy for the Coming Recession, Are We All Keynesians (Again)?, The April AMT Shock, Time to Bail Out: Alternatives to the Bush-Paulson Plan, and Euroland’s Original Sin, among others. Member, editorial board, Challenge, The Bulletin of Political Economy, and Journal of Economic Analysis; book reviewer, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal of Comparative Economic Studies, The Economic Journal, and Atlantic Economic Journal. Frequent commentator on National Public Radio. Witness to U.S. Senate and House Committee Hearings on Banking, Finance, and Small Business. At Bard since 1977.

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Phone: 845-758-7711
E-mail: dbp@levy.org

B.A., Gettysburg College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Missouri–Kansas City. Previously taught at Franklin and Marshall College and University of Missouri-Kansas City. Research and teaching interests include macroeconomic theory and policy; employment policy; monetary theory and the history of monetary thought; institutional and Post Keynesian theory; and the effects of pro-employment policies on gender outcomes and urban development. She has published articles in the Review of Social Economy, Basic Income Studies, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, International Journal of Political Economy, Rutgers Journal of Law and Urban Policy, and Oeconomicus, among others. She is coeditor (with M. Forstater) of Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey (2004). Research Associate, Levy Economics Institute. At Bard: 2006–2008, 2012–

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E-mail: tchernev@levy.org 

B.A., University of the Pacific; M.A., Ph.D., Washington University. Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri–Kansas City. Previously taught at the University of Denver and has been a visiting professor at Bard College, the University of Bologna, and the University of Rome (La Sapienza). Research focuses on providing a critique of orthodox monetary policy, and the development of an alternative approach. Publishes extensively in the areas of full employment policy and the monetary theory of production. Author of Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies (1990); Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price Stability (1998); and Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems (2012). Coeditor and contributor, Money, Financial Instability, and Stabilization Policy (2006); and Keynes for the 21st Century: The Continuing Relevance of The General Theory (2008). Other publications include the Introduction (with D. B. Papadimitriou) to Hyman P. Minsky’s Stabilizing an Unstable Economy and John Maynard Keynes, reissued 2008.

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E-mail: wray@levy.org

M.A., Bombay; Ph.D., The New School for Social Research. Research interests include concepts and measurement of economic well-being, effects of taxes and government spending on well-being, valuation of noncash transfers, and time use. Codeveloper of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being, an alternative framework that accounts for how changes in labor markets, wealth accumulation, government spending and taxes, and household production shape the economic determinants of standard of living; and the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty, which is aimed at revealing the nexus between income poverty and unpaid work. Recent publications include “Trends in American Living Standards and Inequality” (with T. Masterson and E. N. Wolff), Review of Income and Wealth (June 2012); and “Caste Stratification and Wealth Inequality in India” (with V. Vakulabharanam), World Development (October 2011).

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Phone: 845-758-7734
E-mail: zacharia@levy.org