Faculty

Professor Ash's research interests include the environment, health, health disparities, and labor.

Professor Badgett's research interests include labor economics, economics of sexual orientation.

Professor Basu's research interests include classical political economy, political economy of development (with a focus on India), and applied econometrics.

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Assistant Professor Boone's research interests include labor market policy, economic history, and agriculture.

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Professor Dube's research interests include competition and wage setting in labor market, fairness concerns at workplace, minimum wage policies, fiscal policy and local multipliers, health care reform and employer mandates, and the impact of unionization.

Professor Epstein's research interests include macroeconomic policy, central banking and international finance.

Professor Friedman's research interest include the economic history of 19th and 20th century United States,New World slavery in 19th and 20th century France, labor history of Europe and North America, labor economics, political economy, and the economics of health care.

Professor Ganguli's research interests include labor economics, economics of science & innovation, development, economic history, as well as migration of high-skill workers, gender differences in the labor market, social entrepreneurship and scientific collaboration.

Associate Professor Gĩthĩnji's research interests include the political economy of development with particular interest in Africa and issues of inequality, poverty, rural development and the environment, Marxian class analysis, and the impact of East Asian development on African countries.

James Heintz has written on a wide range of economic policy issues, including job creation, global labor standards, the distributive consequences of macroeconomic policies, and the intersection between economics and human rights. He has worked on collaborative projects with numerous national and international institutions, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Labor Organization, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the United Nations Development Program, the Human Development Report Office, the South African Human Rights Commission

Professor Katzner's research interests include microeconomic theory, methodology, culture and economic behavior, Japan and the Japanese economy, and organization theory.

Fidan Ana Kurtulus' research explores a number of topics in labor economics, including the organization of workers within firms, participatory workplace practices and employee ownership, the causes and consequences of workplace diversity, and the long-term effects of affirmative action legislation on the U.S. employment landscape since the Civil Rights Movement.

The main fields that Jennifer S. Long works and teaches in are Economics and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Assistant Professor Moos' research interests include political economy of policy and the welfare state, social reproduction, unpaid household labor, and care work, time-use and working-hours legislation;

Professor Ndikumana's research interests include capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa: magnitudes, causes, and consequences, macroeconomic policies in African countries: fiscal, monetary, and exchange rate policies, financial intermediation and real economic activity, capital flows, capital account and exchange rate regimes in African countries, economics and politics of conflicts and civil wars in Africa, post-conflict reconstruction, state building, and development in African countries, natural resources and domestic resource mobilization.

Assistant Professor Palladino's research interests include economic policy, corporate governance, financialization, cooperative economics, employee ownership, corporate finance, shareholder primacy, labor economics, inequality, tax policy, law & economics, business and securities law.

Professor Pollin's research interests include macroeconomics, finance, conditions for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, clean-energy economics.

Professor Razmi's research interests include open economy, macroeconomics, international trade, development economics, political economy of growth and distribution, and history of economic thought.

Associate Professor Sher's research interests include welfare economics, ethics and economics, and microeconomic theory.

Senior Lecturer Soylu's research interests include political economy of conflict and collective action, political economy of power, and political ecology.

Associate Professor Srivastava's research interests include histories of class, labor and urbanism, class and gender, politics of reproduction, and working class and associational culture in colonial India.

Associate Professor Vakulabharanam's research interests include political economy, economic development, economics of inequality, and economics of Asia.

Assistant Professor Vicarelli's research interests include the risks and the socio-economic impacts of climate variability and climate change, the economics of nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, climate resilience and green-recovery strategies, and renewable energy economics and policy.

Associate Professor Weber teaches Intermediate Macroeconomics and History of Economic Thought (undergraduate).

Professor Yoshihara's research interests include welfare economics, mathematical Marxian economics, theories of distributive justice, political competition, history of economic thoughts, and international trade theory.

I am a political economist whose academic work focuses on financial regulation, transnational policy networks, and the role of private business in shaping global governance. A big focus of my work to date has involved analyzing the ways in which regulatory policy is affected by networks of elites and interest groups. I consider the empirical study of economic elites to be one of the most exciting research opportunities facing social scientists today.