Leadership and Staff
William Milberg is Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the New School for Social Research. His research focuses on the relation between globalization and income distribution, and the history and philosophy of economics. He has written extensively on global value chains and their implications for economic development, financialization and intellectual property. His recent work focuses on the economic causes and consequences of the multinational retreat from liberal democracy, including an edited an issue of Social Research and a book published by The New Institute. His current book project is on the relation between globalization and sports. Milberg has worked as a consultant to the UNDP, the ILO, the UNCTAD and the World Bank. He is the author of Outsourcing Economics: Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development (with Deborah Winkler). Two previous books, The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought and The Making of Economic Society were co-authored with the late Robert Heilbroner. He serves on the editorial boards of Politics & Society, The Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, The International Review of Applied Economics and is on the Advisory Board of Socio-Economic Review. Milberg served as Dean of the New School for Social Research from 2013-2023.
Julia Ott is an associate professor in the history of capitalism at the New School for Social Research and the Eugene Lang College at the New School. She is the author of When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy (2011). Her current book projects include Why Wealth is White, a history of tax policy’s contribution to the racial wealth gap, and What Was Venture Capital?, which traces the history of venture capital as an idea, a political formation, and (finally) a segment of the financial industry.
Thomas Liess is a PhD candidate in Economics at the CUNY Graduate Center and Assistant Director at the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School. He has work experience as a consultant with the United Nations on financing for sustainable development, and holds an MA in Economics from The New School for Social Research.