Faculty
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Dimitri B. PapadimitriouJerome Levy Professor of Economics, Bard College and President, Levy Economics Institute
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Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
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Rania AntonopoulosDirector, Gender Equality and the Economy Program and Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute
Currently on leave
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Thomas MastersonGraduate Programs Director, Director of Applied Micromodeling, and Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute
Email: [email protected]Thomas Masterson
Masterson’s specific research interests include the distribution of land, income, and wealth. He has published articles in the Eastern Economic Journal, The Review of Income and Wealth, and World Development, and is the co-editor of Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and Planet—Papers and Reports from the 2009 U.S. Forum on the Solidarity Economy, 2010. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Michalis Nikiforos
Michalis Nikiforos
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Fernando Rios-AvilaResearch Scholar, Levy Economics Institute
Email: [email protected]Fernando Rios-Avila
As a doctoral candidate at Georgia State University, Rios-Avila worked as a graduate research assistant to Felix Rioja, and interned in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, working under the supervision of Julie L. Hotchkiss. He formerly served as a researcher at the Social and Economic Policy Unit (UDAPE)—a government advisory unit and public policy think tank in La Paz, Bolivia—on issues of development, impact evaluation, and social expenditure, with an emphasis on childrens’ welfare. His research has been published in The Review of Income and Wealth, Industrial Relations, Southern Economic Journal, Applied Economics Letters, Stata Journal, and Business and Economics Research.
Rios-Avila holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
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James I. SturgeonSenior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute
Email: [email protected]James I. Sturgeon
His previous research in institutional economics includes Alternative Streams in Economic Analysis with W. Robert Brazelton and Ivan Weinel (Kendall‑Hunt, 1991), and contributions to Institutional Analysis and Praxis (Springer, 2009) and Policy Implications of Recent Advances in Evolutionary and Institutional Economics (Routledge, 2018). His work in industrial organization includes Which Way Forward? Alternative Paths for Generating Electricity in America’s Heartland (with Stephanie Kelton and Brandon Richman), PURPA Discussion Series: Load Management, Master Metering, Billing, and Information to Customers (US Department of Energy), A Consumer’s Guide to the Economics of Electric Utility Rate Making (State of Illinois and US Department of Energy), The Adverse Economic Impact from Repeal of the Prevailing Wage Law in Missouri (Council for Promoting American Business). He has published in journals including the Journal of Economic Issues, International Journal of Socio-Economics, and the Review of Institutional Thought.
Sturgeon taught at the University of Missouri–Kansas City from 1977–2020; he is an honorary fellow at Bremen University, Germany and was staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission during 1975–77. He has been a visiting lecturer at University of Rome (La Sapienza) and Poznan University, Poland, among others. He holds a BA from Kansas State Teachers College, MA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, where he was a student of Nelson Peach. -
Pavlina R. TchernevaAssociate Professor of Economics, Bard College and Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute
Email: [email protected]Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Research Scholar Pavlina R. Tcherneva is an associate professor of economics at Bard College and founding director of the Bard-OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative. She specializes in modern money and public policy. She previously taught at Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Missouri–Kansas City. During 2000–6, she served as the associate director for economic analysis at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability. In the summer of 2006, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, UK, and since July 2007 she has been a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute.
Tcherneva’s book The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity 2020) is a timely guide to the benefits of one of the most transformative public policies being discussed today, recognized by the Financial Times in 2020 and translated in eight languages. She has collaborated with policymakers from the United States and abroad on designing and evaluating employment programs. Her early work assessed Argentina’s adoption of a large-scale job creation proposal she had developed with colleagues in the United States. She also worked with Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign after her research on inequality garnered national attention.
Her areas of research include monetary and fiscal policy coordination, the Bernanke doctrine, and policy responses during the 2008 and 2020 COVID-induced economic crises. Her research has appeared in the Eastern Economic Journal, Review of Social Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, International Journal of Political Economy, Revista de Economía Crítica, Revue Européenne du droit, and other journals and book volumes.
She is the coeditor of Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey (Edward Elgar 2004), a rare collection of writings on employment and inflation by the Nobel Prize–winning economist, adapted for the modern day. In 2012, Tcherneva received the Association for Social Economics’ Helen Potter Prize for the best paper in the Review of Social Economy.
Tcherneva is a two-time grantee from the Institute for New Economic Thinking for her work on rethinking fiscal policy, job creation, and public goods provisioning. She holds a BA in mathematics and economics from Gettysburg College and an MA and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Missouri–Kansas City. -
L. Randall Wray
L. Randall Wray
Wray holds a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Rome-La Sapienza, the University of Bologna, the University of Paris-South, the University of Bergamo, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He was the Bernardin-Haskell Professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City in the Fall 1996.
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Ajit ZachariasDirector, Distribution of Income, Wealth, and Well-Being Program and
Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute
Email: [email protected]Ajit Zacharias
Along with other Levy scholars, Zacharias has developed alternative measures of economic welfare and deprivation. The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) offers a 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. Levy scholars have utilized the LIMEW to track trends in economic inequality and well-being in the United States. Prof. Zacharias received his Ph.D. from The New School for Social Research.
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Gennaro Zezza
Gennaro Zezza
He is associate professor of economics at the University of Cassino, Italy, and member of the Levy Institute’s Macro-Modeling Team and co-author of the Institute’s Strategic Analysis reports. He worked with the late Wynne Godley in the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Italy, as well as at the Levy Institute, specializing in applied heterodox macroeconometric models. He has served as a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research. Zezza holds a degree in economics from the University of Napoli, Federico II.
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