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People at SCEPA
SCEPA Faculty
 Teresa Ghilarducci
Director
ghilardt@newschool.edu
Teresa Ghilarducci is the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor in Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research and the Director of SCEPA. She was most recently a professor of economics and director of the Higgins Labor Research Center at the University of Notre Dame. Her forthcoming book, When I'm 65: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, for Princeton University Press, investigates the effect of pension losses on older Americans. Her book Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Employer Pensions, MIT Press, won an Association of American Publishers award in 1992. She co-authored Portable Pension Plans for Casual Labor Markets in 1995. Ghilarducci publishes in referred journals and testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Visit Teresa Ghilarducci's Webpage
 David
Howell
Research Working Group Leader
howell@newschool.edu
David Howell is Professor at Milano The New School for Management
and Urban Policy, where he chaired the Urban Policy Program from
1994 to 2001. His research focuses on labor markets at the local,
national, and international levels. Recent publications have examined
the effects of immigration on the economic status of foreign and
native-born workers in New York City; the nature of recent changes
in skill requirements and the determinants of relative wage trends
in the U.S.; and the extent to which labor market institutions and
social policy explain patterns of unemployment in Europe and the
United States.
 Alec Gershberg
Associate Professor, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
gersh@newschool.edu
Alec Gershberg is a specialist on Public Finance, Education Policy, International Development, and Decentralization. Much of his work focuses on accountability, school governance, education finance, institutional arrangements for public service provision, and inter-governmental relations, both in the developing world and the United States. He has conducted extensive research on Latin America—particularly Mexico, Nicaragua, and Ecuador—focusing on the decentralization of power to schools, communities and governments. More recently, he has worked on similar themes in Egypt, Romania, and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has been a frequent consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, US AID, and the Urban Institute. In 2004-05 he was a full time employee of the World Bank as a Senior Education Economist. Other current research interests include immigrant students in public schools in New York and California. He is lead author of the recent book Beyond 'Bilingual' Education: New Immigrants and Public School Policies in California (Urban Institute Press, 2004). He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where his most prominent work has argued for greater competition (especially reduced negotiated bidding) in the municipal bond market.
Visit Alec Gershberg's Webpage
 Darrick Hamilton
Assistant Professor at Milano – The New School for Management and Urban Policy
hamiltod@newschool.edu
Darrick Hamilton, PhD (1999, Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) is an Assistant Professor at Milano – The New School for Management and Urban Policy; an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Economics at The New School for Social Research, a faculty research fellow at Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, an affiliate scholar at the Center for American Progress, and a Co-Associate Director of the American Economic Association Summer Research and Minority Scholarship Program. He was a Ford Foundation Fellow on Poverty, the Underclass and Public Policy at the Poverty Research and Training Center, and the Program for Research on Black Americans both at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 1999-2001, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the Institution for Policy Studies, Yale University from 2001-2003. His scholarly and service work focuses on the causes, consequences and remedies of racial and ethnic inequality in economic and health outcomes. He has published numerous articles on disparities in; wealth, homeownership, and labor market outcomes.
 William
Milberg
Program Coordinator
milbergw@newschool.edu
Will Milberg is Associate Professor of Economics and SCEPA's Program
Coordinator. His research focuses on the implications of changes
in international trade and investment flows for employment and income
distribution. He has worked as a consultant to the UNDP, UNCTAD,
and ILO. He is the co-author (with Robert Heilbroner) of The
Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought and The Making
of Economic Society. He received his PhD in economics from
Rutgers University in 1987. Click here to visit Will Milberg's personal homepage.
 Willi
Semmler
Research Working Group Leader
semmlerw@newschool.edu
http://www.newschool.edu/gf/econ/faculty/semmler/
Willi Semmler is Professor of Economics at the New School for Social
Research and is on the Board of Directors at the Center for Empirical
Macroeconomics at Bielefeld University in Germany. He studied economics,
mathematics, and social sciences at the Universities of Hamburg,
Munich, and the Free University of Berlin and holds a PhD from
the Free University of Berlin. He became Associate Professor in
1987 and Professor in 1993 at the New School for Social Research.
He has been a Visiting Professor of Columbia University and Stanford
University and the CEPREMAP in Paris and lectured at UNAM in Mexico
City, University of Orléans, and at numerous French, Japanese, Italian,
and German universities. He frequently teaches in a network of European
doctorate programs and at the BIGSEM Bielefeld.
 Anwar
Shaikh
Faculty Research Fellow
shaikh@newschool.edu
http://homepage.newschool.edu/%7EAShaikh/
Anwar Shaikh is Professor of Economics at the New School for Social
Research and Senior Scholar and member of the Macro Modeling Team
at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. He has written
in a variety of areas, including international trade, finance theory,
political economy, U.S. macroeconomic policy, growth theory, inflation
theory, and crisis theory. With E.A. Tonak, he is the author of
Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National
Accounts, Cambridge University Press, 1994. He is also an Associate
Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics. Shaikh earned
his PhD from Columbia University in 1973 and has been teaching
at the New School since 1972.
 Lance
Taylor
Faculty Research Fellow
taylorl@newschool.edu
Lance Taylor is the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation
and Development. He received
a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1968. He has been
a Professor in the economics departments of Harvard and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, as well as a Visiting Professor at the
University of Minnesota, the Universidade da Brasilia, Delhi University,
and the Stockholm School of Economics. He moved to the New School
for Social Research in 1993. Taylor has published widely in the
areas of macroeconomics, development economics, and economic theory.
He has served as a visiting scholar or policy advisor in over 25
countries, including Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia,
Egypt, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Pakistan, India, and Thailand.
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