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William Darity Jr. |
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William Darity Jr. is an Arts and
Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies, African and African
American Studies, and Economics and Director of the Research
Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality, Duke University. He earned his B.A. at Brown University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Dr. Darity’s main fields of study include |
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stratification economics, inequality by race, class and
ethnicity, North-South theories of development and trade, social
psychology and unemployment exposure, reparations, schooling and
the racial achievement gap, and financial crises in developing
countries.
He has printed a variety of books and articles, and his most
recent works include: Economics, Economists, and
Expectations: Microfoundations to Macroapplications
(co-authored with Warren Young and Robert Leeson, 2004), and
Boundaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of
Inter-Group Disparity (co-edited with Ashwini Deshpande,
2003).
Dr. Darity currently serves as Editor in Chief for the 2008
edition of International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences,
printed by Macmillan Reference. He has been a fellow at the
National Humanities Center from 1989-90, and a visiting scholar
at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors in 1984. Dr. Darity
has also acted as President of the National Economic Association
and of the Southern Economic Association, and has taught at
Grinnell College, the University of Maryland at College Park,
the University of Texas at Austin, Simmons College, and
Claremont-McKenna College. |
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Rachel E. Dwyer |
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Rachel E. Dwyer is an Assistant Professor of
Sociology at The Ohio State University. She earned her B.A.,
M.S., and a Ph. D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Dwyer’s main areas of research include economic sociology,
social inequality, urban sociology, contemporary patterns of
suburban development, the relationship between |
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residential segregation and
metropolitan growth, the spatial segregation of the affluent,
work and occupations, and the quality and determinants of
employment growth.
Her most recent publications include: “Expanding
Homes and Increasing Inequalities: U.S. Housing Development and
the Residential Segregation of the Affluent” (2007), “Redlining”
(in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2006),
“Downward Earnings Mobility after Voluntary Employer Exits”
(2004), and “The Pattern of Job Expansions in the United States:
A Comparison of the 1960s and 1990s” (co-written with Erik Olin
Wright, 2003).
Dr. Dwyer has served as a Reviewer for the American Journal
of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Problems,
Social Forces, Work and Occupations, and for the National
Science Foundation. She has also been a member of the 2005
Viviana Zelizer Award Committee for the Economic Sociology
Section of the American Sociological Association, and has worked
as a co-organizer for the session on “Historical Patterns in
American Suburbanization” for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the
Social Science History Association. |
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James K. Galbraith |
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James K. Galbraith is the Lloyd M. Bentsen
Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations, and is also a Joint
Professor with Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. School of Public Affairs at
the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his A.B. degree
from Harvard and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Yale. |
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Dr. Galbraith’s interests include
economic inequality, economic policy analysis, comparative
economic policy, history of economic thought, and modern
political history.
His recent publications include: Inequality and Industrial
Change: A Global View (co-edited with Maureen Berner, 2001),
Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998), The Economic
Problem (with the late Robert Heilbroner, 1990), Balancing Acts:
Technology, Finance and the American Future (1989), and
Macroeconomics (with William Darity, 2006).
Dr. Galbraith is the Director of the University of Texas
Inequality Project. He also serves as a Senior Scholar for the
Levy Economics Institute, and as chair of Economists Allied for
Arms Reduction (ECAAR). He has served in several positions on
the staff of the U.S. Congress, including Executive Director of
the Joint Economic Committee, and was also a guest scholar at
the Brookings Institution in 1985, and Chief Technical Adviser
to the State Planning Commission, P.R. China, on a Macroeconomic
reform project from 1994 to 1997. |
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Benjamin Friedman |
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Benjamin Friedman is the William Joseph Maier
Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. He
received his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard
University, and his M.Sc. degree from King’s College, Cambridge,
U.K.
Dr. Friedman’s work has focused on the effects of government
deficits and surpluses on interest rates, exchange rates, and
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investments, appropriate
guidelines for the conduct of U.S. monetary policy, and
appropriate policy actions in response to crises in a country’s
banking or financial system.
He is the author of several books and a
multitude of articles, and most notably for The Moral
Consequences of Economic Growth (2005), and Day of
Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under
Reagan and After (1988), the latter of which received the
George S. Eccles Prize for excellence in economic literature
from Columbia University.
Dr. Friedman received the 2005-2006 John R. Commons Award, in
recognition of his achievements in economics and service to the
economics profession. He also serves as a director and member of
the editorial board of the Encyclopedia Britannica, a director
of the Private Export Funding Corporation, a trustee of the
Standish Mellon Investment Trust, a director of the National
Council on Economic Education, an adviser to the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, a member of the Brookings Panel on Economic
Activity, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. |
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Ruth Milkman |
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Ruth Milkman is a Professor of Sociology at the
University of California, Los Angeles, and also serves as
Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
She achieved a B.A. from Brown University, and both an M.A. and
a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Milkman’s
research interests are concentrated on the sociology of work,
labor history, |
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contemporary unionism, and the sociology of gender.
She has published numerous books and articles,
including: L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of
the U.S. Labor Movement (2006), Rebuilding Labor:
Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement
(co-edited with Kim Voss, 2004), Organizing Immigrants: The
Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California (2000),
Farewell to the Factory: Automobile Workers in the Late 20th
Century (1997), and Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job
Segregation by Sex During World War II (1987).
Dr. Milkman’s book, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job
Segregation by Sex during World War II (1987), won the 1987
Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History from the American
Historical Association (AHA). Dr. Milkman has also served on the
editorial board for a number of scholarly journals, including
Feminist Studies, Politics and Society, the American Journal of
Sociology, Gender and Society, International Labor and
Working-Class History, Contemporary Sociology, the British
Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations, and Work
and Occupations. |
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Lawrence Mishel |
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Lawrence Mishel is the President of Economic
Policy Institute. He earned a B.S. from Pennsylvania State
University, an M.A. from American University, and a Ph.D. from
University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Mishel’s areas of expertise focus on income distribution and
poverty, labor markets, industrial relations, technology and
productivity, |
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education, wages, and Unions and
collective bargaining.
He is the primary author of “The State of
Working America,” a major research volume that is published
every even-numbered year since 1988, providing a comprehensive
overview of the U.S. labor market and living standards. Dr.
Mishel has also written a host of books and articles, including:
Talking Past Each Other (2006), Rethinking High School
Graduation Rates and Trends (2006), The Charter School
Dust-Up: Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and Achievement
(2005), The Class Size Debate (2002), and The
Prosperity Gap (1997).
Dr. Mishel is a nationally recognized economist, and is
frequently called on to provide economic briefings to members of
Congress. He also provides expert commentary on the economy in
print and broadcast media, and has recently written a paper,
outlining a plan to stimulate the economy, which was widely
adopted by policy makers in Washington and beyond. |
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Benjamin I. Page |
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Benjamin I. Page is the Gordon S. Fulcher
Professor of Decision Making, and is a Faculty Associate for the
Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He
holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a JD from Harvard Law
School.
Dr. Page’s interests include public opinion and |
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policy making,
the mass media, empirical democratic theory, political economy,
policy formation, the presidency, and American foreign policy.
He has authored a number of articles, including
"Effects of Public Opinion on Policy" and "What Moves Public
Opinion," both in the American Political Science Review, and has
written seven books, including The Rational Public: Fifty
Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences (with
Robert Shapiro, University of Chicago Press, 1992), Who
Deliberates? Mass Media in Modern Democracy (University of
Chicago Press, 1996), and What Government Can Do: Dealing
with Poverty and Inequality (with James Simmons, University
of Chicago Press, 2000).
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Saskia Sassen |
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Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of
Sociology at Columbia University, and is a participant of the
Committee on Global Thought. She is also a Centennial Visiting
Professor at the London School of Economics. She earned her M.A.
and then a joint Ph.D. in sociology and economics, from the
University of Notre Dame. |
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Her areas of interest include globalization (including social,
economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities
(including cities and terrorism), the new networked
technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result
from current transnational conditions.
Her major publications include: Territory,
Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages
(2006), The Global City (1991), and The Mobility of
Labor and Capital (1988).
Dr. Sassen is noted for having coined the term “global city.”
She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a
member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities. She
has received a variety of awards and prizes, most recently, a
Doctor honoris causa from Delft University (Netherlands), the
first Distinguished Graduate School Alumnus Award of the
University of Notre Dame, and was one of the four winners of the
first University of Chicago Future Mentor Award covering all
doctoral programs. She has also served as the Ralph Lewis
Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. |
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Roger Waldinger |
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Roger Waldinger is a Distinguished Professor
within the Sociology Department at University of California, Los
Angeles. He earned a B.A. at Brown University and a Ph.D. at
Harvard University.
His research centers on international migration, race, and
ethnicity. He is also involved in two |
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ongoing research projects.
The first focuses on the trajectory of the contemporary second
generation of immigrant offspring, in light of the experience of
the past; the second, on the political sociology of
international migration, seeking to show how the inherently
political nature of international migration shapes migrant
action as well as host society responses.
Dr. Waldinger has written a plethora of books
and articles including: Strangers at the Gates: New
Immigrants in Urban America (2001), Still the Promised
City? New Immigrants and African-Americans in Post-Industrial
New York (1996), Ethnic Los Angeles (1996),
Through the Eye of the Needle: Immigrants and Enterprise in New
York’s Garment Trades (1986), and Ethnic Entrepreneurs:
Immigrant Business in Industrial Society (1990).
He is also a co-organizer of the “Migration Study Group,” a
year-long speaker series featuring interdisciplinary talks on
international migration. He served as Chair of the Department of
Sociology from 1999-2004, directed the Lewis Center for Regional
Policy Studies at UCLA School of Public Affairs from 1995-1998,
and has received several distinguished awards for his
publications. |
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