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).
Ava Freyaldenhoven
Program Assistant
Ava Freyaldenhoven is a graduate student in the Historical Studies department. She received two BAs in History and Communication from North Carolina State University. She is interested in the history of consumer culture, gendered social reproduction and unequal exchange in American capitalism at the turn of the 20th century. She is currently researching the processes of domestic manufacturing of silk hosiery from 1890-1930 and its relation to working-class consumerism and the rise of hemlines in popular fashion.