Economics Faculty
Jamee K. Moudud
Courses: The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, The Economics of the Welfare State, Current Debates in Marxian and Post-Keynesian Economics
B.S., M.Eng., Cornell University. M.A., Ph.D. (honors), New School for Social Research. Research interests include growth and cycles, nonlinear dynamics, political economy, econometrics of structural time series models, and international comparisons of long-run technological change and growth. Current research includes the use of both co-integration and state space methods to estimate potential output, the rate of capacity utilization, and long-run technological change in a number of developed and developing countries. Currently co-editing a book entitled The Dynamics of Accumulation: Essays in the Classical and Harrodian Traditions (M.E. Sharpe Publishers). Co-organized panels on globalization and Latin American development for the Eastern Economic Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C., February 2004, at which he presented a paper on an econometric estimation of the Harrodian warranted growth rates in five major Latin American countries in the postwar period. Also working on co-editing a publication based on the conference for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Research associate at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Biographical entry in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering,2003. SLC, 2000-
Marilyn Power
Courses: First-Year Studies: Political Economics of the Environment, History of Economic Thought
B.A., Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley. Special interests include economics of gender, race, and class; feminist economics; political economics of the environment; the history of economic thought; and macroeconomics. Author of articles in Feminist Studies, Review of Radical Political Economics, Industrial Relations, Feminist Economics, and others. Co-author of Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States (Routledge, 2002). SLC, 1990-
Frank Roosevelt
Courses: Understanding Capitalism: Mainstream and Radical Perspectives
B.A., Yale University. M.A., Columbia University. Ph.D., New School for Social Research. Particular interests in comparative economic systems, microeconomics, political economy, and the policy implications of competing theoretical paradigms in economics; author of articles in various professional journals and periodicals; contributor to E. J. Nell, editor, Growth, Profits, and Property: Essays in the Revival of Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1980); co-editor and contributor to Why Market Socialism? Voices from Dissent (M.E. Sharpe, 1994); co-author with Samuel Bowles and Richard Edwards of Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change, third edition (Oxford University Press, 2005). SLC, 1977-