I am Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. I am also a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. I have a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

John Jay now offers an MA in economics; more information here.

I blog at The Slack Wire. (RSS feed.) You can sign up for my free email newsletter at Substack.

My research and teaching is primarily in macroeconomics. I also write about finance, economic history, the history of economic thought, and international finance and trade. I am currently working with Arjun Jayadev on a book, provisionally titled Money and Things, on the relationship between the world of money payments and balance sheets and the concrete social and material reality outside of it.

Papers and articles.

Teaching materials.

News mentions and media appearances.

Current cv (October 2024)

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If you’re interested in my personal background, political commitments,  and intellectual development, you can listen to this interview.

I live in Brooklyn, with Laura Tanenbaum and our children Eli and Abraham.