William Milberg
Director
William Milberg is Dean and Professor of Economics 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 the economic development implications of global value chains. His recent work focuses on US trade and tax policy, the financialization of the US corporate sector and “intellectual monopoly” in global value chains. He has worked as a consultant to the UNDP, the ILO, the UNCTAD and the World Bank. His most recent book (with Deborah Winkler) is Outsourcing Economics: Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development (Cambridge University Press). Two previous books, The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought (Cambridge) and The Making of Economic Society (Pearson) were co-authored with the late Robert Heilbroner. He serves on the editorial boards of Politics & Society and The International Review of Applied Economics.
Julia Ott
Minors Coordinator
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).
Maddie Sullivan
Program Assistant
Maddie Sullivan is a graduate student in the Economics department. She received a BA in American Studies from George Washington University. She is interested in Political Economy and Feminist Theory.