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Karl AigingerProfessor Dr Karl Aiginger is the director of the WIFO. He studied economics at the University of Vienna and Purdue University in Indiana, USA. He obtained the habilitation in 1984 with the book “Production Theory and Uncertainty”, published by Blackwell. He began his career at WIFO in 1970 as an economic researcher. For many years he was responsible for the background reports to the European Commission on the competitiveness of European industry. Professor Aiginger was also a visiting professor in the USA (Stanford University, MIT, and UCLA). He also teaches at the Vienna University of Economic and Business Administration. He is joint publisher of the Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade (JICT). He is the coordinator of the project “WWWforEurope — a new growth path for Europe” since April 2012 which the WIFO is undertaking together with 32 partners within the 7th Framework Programme of the EU.

Shardul AgrawalaShardul Agrawala is Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division at the OECD Environment Directorate. He took up duties full time in July 2013. In this capacity, Dr. Agrawala leads the Directorate’s work on economic-environmental modelling, empirical analysis of environmental poli-cies, trade and environment, and on resource produc-tivity and waste.

At the OECD since 2002, Dr. Agrawala has previ-ously served as Senior Advisor to the OECD Secretary General, Co-ordinator of the OECD-wide initiative on New Approaches to Economic Challenges, Acting Head of the Climate Change Biodiversity and Development Division, and Senior Economist Climate Change.

Dr. Agrawala has published extensively on climate change. He has led teams of international experts for chapters of the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has testified before the US Congress, contributed to the Stern Review, and served on advi-sory panels for the Pilot Program on Climate Resilience of the World Bank and the International Climate Initiative (ICI) of the German Government.

Dr Agrawala received his PhD from Princeton University and has previously held research positions at Princeton University, Harvard University, Columbia University and at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

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Wilfried AltzingerWilfried Altzinger is associate professor of economics and deputy head of the Institute of Macroeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He studied at the Universities of Linz (Austria) and Bremen (Germany). He has a PhD in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and has written his Habilitation on “Austrian FDI in Central and Eastern Europe and its Implication on Trade and Employment”. He was Visiting Professor at Nuffield College, Oxford (2014), at the Department of Public Finance and Social Policy at the Free University of Berlin (2012), Guest Professor at the University of Mauritius (2004), Research Fellow at the Finish Economic Research Institute (1998) and at the Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia (1993/94). His current research focuses on the theory and empirical evidence on income and wealth distribu-tion. In 2014 he has organized the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) on “Economics of Inequality” at Vienna (Austria).

Facundo AlvaredoFacundo Alvaredo is Research Fellow at the Paris School of Economics and Conicet. He is also Associate Member of Nuffield College, and Fellow of INET, Oxford University. His interests include income and wealth inequality, personal taxation, and economic history. He is the Executive Director of The World Top Incomes Database.


Melvin AyoguMelvin Ayogu is concurrently Director of the Executive MBA program and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the School of Business Administration, American University of Sharjah; Fellow, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), Johannesburg, South Africa, and Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Previously, he was a Fellow, Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings Institution, Washington DC. His work focuses on governance, infrastructure, and economic development. Melvin was Director, Global Leadership Centre at Standard Bank Group South Africa. Previously Dean Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town, Director, School of Economics and professor of economics at the University of Cape Town. He was also a Rhodes Visiting African Scholar to Oxford University in 1995, Visiting Scholar at the Centre for International Development and Senior Rockefeller Humanities Institute Fellow at Harvard University in 2000. Dr. Ayogu is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Financial Services, London and serves on the Advisory Board of ONE.org.

Christina AnselmannChristina Anselmann holds a Master in International Management from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Since 2012, she has been a research student at the Faculty of Management Science and Engineering. Her research interests include income inequality, economic growth, and government debt. She has published on some of these topics together with Prof. Hagen Kraemer and is the author of two German-language books on the issues of public debt (Metropolis, 2012) as well as the distribution of incomes (Metropolis, 2013).

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Eric BeinhockerEric Beinhocker is the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s INET@Oxford research program at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, a member of the Said Business School at Oxford, and a Visiting Professor of Economics at Central European University. Issues INET@Oxford researchers are working on include economic growth, financial system stability, inequality, risk and resilience, ethics and economics, economic development, and sustainability.

Prior to joining Oxford, Beinhocker had an 18 year career at McKinsey & Company where he was a partner and held leadership roles in McKinsey’s Strategy Practice, its Sustainability and Resource Productivity Practice, and the McKinsey Global Institute. He has a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.S. in Management Science from the MIT Sloan School where he was the Henry Ford II Scholar.

Beinhocker writes extensively on economic, busi-ness, and policy issues and his work has appeared in the Financial Times, Newsweek, The Times, Harvard Business Review, and various academic journals. He is the author The Origin of Wealth, one of Amazon’s “Top Ten Business Books” in 2006.

Jim BalsillieJim Balsillie (B.Comm. Toronto, FCA Toronto, MBA Harvard) is a co-founder and former co-CEO of Research In Motion (BlackBerry) and founder of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He is also the founder of the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) and the Canadian International Council (CIC) and co-founder of Communitech. He was the private sector represen-tative on the UN Secretary General’s High Panel for Sustainability and was recently appointed by the Government of Canada as the Chair of the Board for the Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). His awards include: Mobile World Congress Lifetime Achievement Award, India’s Priyadarshni Academy Global Award, Time Magazine World’s 100 Most Influential People, three times Barron’s list of ‘World’s Top CEOs’ and once CNBC’s list of ‘Worst CEOs’.


Daniel BenjaminDaniel Benjamin is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Cornell and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Center for Economic and Social Research at USC. His research is in behav-ioral economics (which incorporates ideas and methods from psychology into economic analysis) and genoeconomics (which incorporates genetic data into economics). Benjamin co-organizes (with David Cesarini and Phil Koellinger) the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC), a collab-orative research infrastructure involving over 70 data providers who have collected both whole-genome data and social-science measures. He received a PhD in Economics from Harvard, an MSc in Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics, an AM in Statistics from Harvard and an AB in Economics from Harvard.

Anthony Blundell-WignallDr. Adrian Blundell-Wignall is the Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on Financial Markets and Director in the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF) at the OECD. DAF supports governments to improve the domestic and global policies that affect business and markets. Key areas of work include anti-bribery, competition, corporate affairs, international investment, financial markets, insurance and private pensions.

He is founder and chairman of a charitable founda-tion (The Anika Foundation) that raises and invests an endowment fund to provide scholarships in a critical area of healthcare.

Mr. Blundell-Wignall is an Australian citizen. He has a 1st class Honours degree and PhD in Economics from Cambridge University, UK.

He is the author of extensive publications on financial markets and monetary policy in learned journals and books, as well as broker analyst studies and reports.

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Claudio BorioClaudio Borio is Head of the Monetary and Economic Department (MED), Bank for International Settlements.

He has been at the BIS since 1987, covering various responsibilities in the Monetary and Economic Department including Director of Research and Statistics and Head of the Secretariat of the Committee on the Global Financial System and the Gold and Foreign Exchange Committee, which examine, inter alia, issues related to financial stability and market functioning.

From 1985-1987, he worked as economist at the OECD in the country studies branch of the Economics and Statistics Department.

Prior to that, he was Lecturer and Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford University.

He holds a DPhil and MPhil in Economics and a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the same university. Author of numerous publications in the fields of monetary policy, banking, finance and issues related to financial stability.

Alberto BottaAlberto Botta is lecturer in economic policy at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy. He also teaches international economics at the University of Pavia and micro-economics at the Master Program in Cooperation and Development, Institute of Advanced Studies of Pavia. He is member of the scientific board of the Master program in Cooperation and Development, Institute of Advanced Studies of Pavia. Alberto Botta is Professor of economic integration and international cooperation at the Master Program in Cooperation and Development in the Middle East, University of Bethlehem, Palestinian territories. His main research interests concern post-Keynesian economics, development economics, financial instability and international monetary economics. On these topics, he has published some articles on international peer-review journals such as “Structural Change and Economic Dynamics”, “Metroeconomica”, “Review of Political Economy”, “Journal of post-Keynesian Economics”, “Review of Keynesian Economics”, and “PSL Quarterly Review”.


Samuel BowlesSamuel Bowles, (PhD, Economics, Harvard University) is Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute where he heads the Behavioral Sciences Program. He taught economics at Harvard from 1965 to 1973 and since then at the University of Massachusetts, where he is now emeritus professor and at the University of Siena from 2002 to 2010.

His recent scholarly papers have appeared in Science, Nature, American Economic Review, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Behavioral and Brain Science, and Philosophy and Public Affairs. Recent books include The Moral Economy: Good laws are no substitute for good citizens, A Cooperative Species: Human reciprocity and its evolution (with Herbert Gintis), The new economics of inequality and redistribution, and Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution). He is currently working on Equality’s Fate: The origins and future of economic disparity and political hierarchy.

He has also advised the governments of Cuba, South Africa and Greece, to Robert F. Kennedy and Jesse Jackson, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and to South African President Nelson Mandela.

James BoyceJames K. Boyce is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and director of the environment program at the Political Economy Research Institute. His latest book is Economics, the Environment, and Our Common Wealth (2013). His previous books include Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration (2007); Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership (2003); and The Political Economy of the Environment (2002). He is president of Econ4: Economics for People, the Planet and the Future.

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Nicholas BoyleNicholas Boyle(b. 1946) is the Emeritus Schröder Professor of German in the University of Cambridge and a Fellowof Magdalene College. He is probably best known for his biography of Goethe, still in progress (volume 1, 1991, volume 2, 2000. He is also the author of Who Are We Now?: Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney (1998), a volume of essays on the contemporary world, and Sacred and Secular Scriptures: a Catholic approach to literature (2004). His most recent books are German Literature. A Very Short Introduction (2008) and a further study of globaliza-tion: 2014. How to Survive the Next World Crisis (2010). He was the General Editor of The Impact of Idealism. The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought (4 vols., 2013). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Corresponding Fellow of the Göttingen Academy, and holds an honorary degree from Georgetown University.

Anton BrenderHolder of a Ph.D. in economics (University of Paris I). He worked first with CEPII — a French think-tank focused on the world economy and became Director of this Institute in 1990. He works with CPR — a French investment bank — as Chief Economist from 1992 to the end of 2001. He joined Candriam Investors Group — an asset-management company — as Chief Economist, in July 2002.

He is also teaching at the University Paris – Dauphine. He published numerous books, the last ones, published by the CEPS, in Brussels being “Global Imbalances and the Collapse of Globalised Finance” (2010), “The Sovereign Debt Crisis: Placing a Curb On Growth” (2012) and “Money, Finance and the Real Economy: What went wrong?” (2015).


Dan BreznitzDan Breznitz, is a Professor and Munk Chair of Innovation Studies, and the Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of the University of Toronto. Professor Breznitz is known worldwide as an expert on rapid-innovation-based industries and their globalization, as well as for his pioneering research on the distributional impact of innovation policies. He has been an advisor on science, technology, and innovation policies to multinational corporations, governments, and international orga-nizations. His past books were awarded the Don K. Price for Best Book on Science and Technology, and the Susan Strange Best Book in International Studies. His policy work was recognized by the GTRC 75th Anniversary Innovation Award for Public Service, Leadership, and Policy, and in 2008 he was selected as a Sloan Industry Studies Fellow. In an earlier life Breznitz founded and served as a CEO of a small software company.

Louison Cahen-FourotLouison Cahen-Fourot is a PhD Student in Economics at Paris-13 University under the supervision of Associate Professor Cédric Durand (Paris-13 U.) and Professor Marc Lavoie (U. of Ottawa, Canada). His PhD is in Ecological macroeconomics and focus on the environmental causes of the shift from the Fordist regime to the post-Fordist regime, on the environment within the finance-led growth regime and the ecolog-ical effects of financialization. He holds two Master’s degrees, in Sustainable development economics in developing and transition countries from the Center for International Development Research and Studies (CERDI – Clermont I University) and in International Economics, Finance and Regulation from Paris-13 University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Economic and social administration from Bordeaux University.

He has been a member of the PEPS-Économie student collective since 2011, which aims at imple-menting a more pluralistic economics education. He is also a member of the International Student Initiative for Pluralism in Economics (ISIPE).

More importantly, he is a strong supporter of the FC Girondins de Bordeaux, obviously the best football team in the world.

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Wendy CarlinWendy Carlin is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL), Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, and Fellow of the European Economic Association. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, institutions and economic performance, and the economics of tran-sition. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility. She has acted as a consultant for international organizations such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, and the World Bank. She has co-authored with David Soskice three macro-economics books. The most recent Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System (2015) has just been published by OUP. She is leading an inter-national project — the CORE project — funded by INET on undergraduate economics curriculum reform. The CORE project has published The Economy, which is free on-line at www.core-econ.org .

Douglass CarmichaelDouglass Carmichael is a consultant on Strategy for INET. Started physics at Caltech, PhD from Berkeley in human development, post doc of Harvard’s Center for Cognitive Studies and lived in Mexico City while studying at Eric Fromm’s Institute for psychoanalysis. Professor at University of California at Santa Cruz then lived in Washington DC for many years continuing private practice, strategic consulting with many organizations including the Hewlett-Packard, World Bank, Bell laboratories, The White House and the State Department and ran the network for Al Gore’s Reinventing government. For the last ten years has focused on the broad social science issues relevant to rethinking humanity’s relationship to nature. Lives on the Russian River and spends two days a week in Palo Alto leading two seminars on strategic conversations. Started the Stanford Strategy Studio and is most interested in the relationship between the humanities and economics. Member of the American Anthropology Association.

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Alessandra CasaricoAlessandra Casarico is Associate Professor of Public Economics at Bocconi University, Italy. She is the Director of the Welfare State and Taxation Unit of the Dondena Research Center on Social Dynamics and Public Policy at Bocconi, CESifo Research Fellow, and Luca D’Agliano Research Associate. She holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford.

Her main research interests fall in the broad area of public economics. She works on the analysis of the design and effects of policies to promote gender equality, on the study of the economic impact of taxa-tion and the welfare state, on public policies and time use, and on migration policies. She has published in international refereed journals such as the Journal of Public Economics, The Economic Journal, Regional Studies, and the Journal of Population Economics and she has contributed to books published by national and international editors, the last one of which investigates the effects of the recent introduction of a law on gender quotas on corporate boards in Italy. She participates in many international scientific research projects and networks. In 2013 and 2014 during her sabbatical year she visited INET at the Oxford Martin School.

Lucas ChancelLucas Chancel is a researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and teaches at Sciences Po Paris. His work focuses on the interactions between sustainable development policies and economic inequalities as well as on the linkages between economic growth and prosperity. He holds degrees from Imperial College in London, Sciences Po Paris and Ecole Polytechnique.

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Jie ChenDr. Jie Chen is University Statistician at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has published exten-sively on scan statistics, applied probability, and Bayesian spatial models. She has also served as a statis-tical consultant on numerous collaborative projects in both the natural and social sciences. She is also a Director in Research Design and Analysis Core for the UMass Boston/Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Partnership Program, funded by the National Institute of Health. She received the B.S. from Beijing University in 1986 and the Ph.D. in statistics from University of Connecticut in 1998.

Daniel ChomskyDaniel Chomsky teaches political science at Temple University. His work focuses on the mass media decision making, political power and public policy. His research has been published in Media, Culture & Society, Political Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Law & Society Review, and other journals.


Orsola CostantiniOrsola Costantini is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Bergamo (Italy). An alumna of Ghislieri College at the University of Pavia, she obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the same institution in 2013. During her doctoral studies, she was full-time visiting researcher at the University of Ottawa (Canada). Her research has primarily focused on macroeconomics, fiscal policy, and debt and income distribution, along with the history of economic thought. Her current work focuses on the contemporary dynamics of incomes and inequality and the political economy of the European Union.

Richard ConnMr. Conn is the Managing Partner of Innovate Partners LLC, an emerging company private investment firm (www.innovatepartners.com), and of Conn Inter-national Group LLC, an international advisory firm focusing upon Russia and Ukraine (www.connig.com). He advised the Yeltsin government on legal restruc-turing and co-authored Collier Labor Law and the Bankruptcy Code.

Mr. Conn practiced international corporate law and litigation as an equity partner with the interna-tional law firm Latham & Watkins. He founded the firm’s Moscow office in 1992, served as President of the Moscow based Foreign Bar Association and lived in Moscow during 1992–1995 and 2003–2007.

In 2010, Mr. Conn ran for the Deputy Presidency of the World Chess Federation on an international ticket headed by the Twelfth World Champion Anatoly Karpov with the support of the Thirteenth World Champion Garry Kasparov and is an avid chess player. He is fluent in Russian and Spanish.

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Barry CynamonBarry Z. Cynamon is a visiting scholar at the Center for Household Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His research focuses on the intersection between household finance, including balance sheet health and the distribution of income, and economic growth. Recent efforts supported by the Institute have included contributions to the measure-ment of consumption across the US income distri-bution and alignment of the US national accounts to match household survey data. Cynamon received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Washington University and a master’s degree in business adminis-tration from University of Chicago.

Bruce CumingsBruce Cumings teaches modern Korean history, inter-national history, and East Asian political economy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1987 and where he is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor. He is the author of the two-volume study, The Origins of the Korean War (Princeton University Press, 1981, 1990), War and Television (Verso and Visal-Routledge, 1992), Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History (W. W. Norton, 1997; updated ed. 2005), Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American—East Asian Relations (Duke University Press, 1999; paperback 2002), North Korea: Another Country (New Press, 2003), co-author of Inventing the Axis of Evil (New Press, 2004), and Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power (Yale University Press, 2010). The Random House Modern Library published his short book, The Korean War, on the war’s 60th anniversary in 2010.


Antonio DamasioAntonio Damasio is University Professor, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California; he is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. Damasio has made seminal contributions to the understanding of brain processes underlying emotions, feelings, decision-making and consciousness. He is the author of numerous scientific articles (Web of Knowledge H Index is 83; over 32,000 citations; named “Highly Cited Researcher” by the Institute for Scientific Information.) His research has received continuous Federal funding for over 30 years. He is the recipient of many awards (including the Grawemeyer Award, 2014; the Honda Prize, 2010; the Asturias Prize in Science and Technology, 2005; and the Signoret Prize, 2004, which he shared with his wife Hanna Damasio). Damasio is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He also holds Honorary Doctorates from several Universities.

He has written several books, among them Descartes’ Error, The Feeling of What Happens, Looking for Spinoza. and Self Comes to Mind, trans-lated and taught in universities worldwide.

Marcello de CeccoMarcello de Cecco is emeritus professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa end currently teaches courses at the School of European Politics of LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, whre he is also a member of the Scientific Committee. He received his Law degree from the University of Parma and his MA in Economics from Cambridge University, in the UK. He was a professor of Economics at the European University Institute in Fiesole and in the Universities of Roma and Siena and a visiting professor at Harvard, Oxford, Berkeley, the Ecole Normale d’ Administration and a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton and of the Wissenschaft Kolleg zu Berlin. He was in the Council of economic advisers to Italian Prime Ministers Prodi and D’ Alema. He was on the board of directors of several Italian banks. He has published several books and articles on international monetary history He writes frequent comments on international economic affairs for the Italian daily “La Repubblica”.

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Mirko DracaMirko Draca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. His research is focused on applied micro-economics and has previously included work on topics such as: the ‘revolving door’ in lobbying, police and crime, and impact of the minimum wage. Current research includes work on: prices and crime, the impact of international sanctions on the Iranian economy, and the ‘shadow lobbying’ sector in Washington.

Carlo D’IppolotiCarlo D’Ippoliti is research fellow in political economy and adjunct professor of International economics at the Department of Statistics, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). He is assistant editor of PSL Quarterly Review (formerly known as Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review) and of Moneta e Credito. D’Ippoliti obtained a joint Ph.D. in Economics from the Universities of Rome “La Sapienza” (dottore di ricerca in scienze economiche, Italy) and “W.F. Goethe” of Frankfurt am Main (“dr. rer. pol.”, Germany).

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Gérard DuménilGérard Duménil is economist, former Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), in France. He has been collaborating for many years with the economist Dominique Lévy.

Le concept de loi économique dans le capital (Maspero, Paris, 1977), with an introduction by Louis Althusser. With Jacques Bidet : Altermarxisme. Un autre marxisme pour un autre monde, Presses Universitaires de France, Quadrige “Essais-Débats”, Paris, 2007.

With Dominique Lévy: The Economics of the profit rate, Edward Elgar, 1993. With Dominique Lévy, and, by Harvard University Press: (1) Capital Resurgent, 2004; (2) The Crisis of Neoliberalism, 2011; (3) The Stability Frontier, Other Monetary Macrodynamics, forthcoming.

Steven DurlaufSteven N. Durlauf is William F. Vilas Research Professor and Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2011, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently a co-director of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group at the University of Chicago, an international research network linking scholars across disciplines in the study of inequality and the sources of human flourishing and destitution. Durlauf is the Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature. He was general editor of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, revised edition, published in 2008, the most extensive compendium of economic knowledge in the world.

Durlauf ’s research spans many topics in micro-economics, macroeconomics, and econometrics. His most important substantive contributions involve the areas of poverty, inequality and economic growth. Much of his research has attempted to integrate socio-logical ideas into economic analysis. This has led him to propose a “memberships theory” of inequality in which the memberships of individuals to neighbor-hoods, schools, class, ethnic groups, and firms combine to determine socioeconomic outcomes, His major methodological contributions include both economic theory and econometrics. He helped pioneer the application of statistical mechanics techniques to the modelling of socioeconomic behavior and has also developed identification analyses for the empirical analogs of these models.

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Gerald EpsteinGerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and a founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 1981. Epstein has written articles on numerous topics including financial crisis and regulation, alternative approaches to central banking for employment generation and poverty reduction, economists’ ethics and capital account management and capital flows and the polit-ical economy of financial markets and institutions. Most recently his research has focused on the impacts of financialization (Gerald Epstein, ed. Financialization and the World Economy, Elgar Press, 2005), alternatives to inflation targeting (Gerald Epstein and Erinc Yeldan, eds. Beyond Inflation Targeting: Assessing the Impacts and Policy Alternatives, Elgar Press, 2009.) and financial reform, and the Great Financial Crisis (Martin Wolfson and Gerald Epstein, eds.) The Handbook of The Political Economy of Financial Crises, Oxford, 2013. He is writing a book in connection with an INET project on the social inefficiency of the current financial system and approaches to financial restructuring.

Thomas FaziThomas Fazi is a journalist, writer, documentary filmmaker, activist and Anglo-Italian translator (of authors such as Christopher Hitchens, George Soros and Robert Reich). He lives in Rome, Italy. He is the co-director of Standing Army (2010), an award-winning feature-length documentary on US military bases featuring Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky; and the author of The Battle for Europe: How an Elite Hijacked a Continent — and How We Can Take It Back (Pluto Press, 2014). He is a regular contributor to Social Europe Journal, il manifesto, openDemocracy, Krytyka Polityczna, Green European Journal and other printed and online journals; and is the editor of Oneuro, the weekly maga-zine of the European affairs website eunews.it. He collaborates with the Italian civil society network Sbilanciamoci! and is the coordinator of the European Progressive Economists Network (Euro-pen). His website is www.battleforeurope.net. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Steven FazzariSteven Fazzari is the Bert A. and Jeanette L. Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1982. Professor Fazzari’s research explores two main areas: the finan-cial determinants of investment and R&D spending by U.S. firms and the foundations of Keynesian macro-economics. His published articles appear in a wide variety of academic journals and books. A recent search found 2,200 citations to Fazzari’s publications in the Research Papers in Economics database (approaching 10,000 in Google Scholar). In addition, his research supported by INET has been highlighted in the national and international media, with recent attention to the link between rising income inequality and slow economic growth.

Fazzari teaches macroeconomics. He teaching awards include the Missouri Governor’s award for excellence in university teaching and Washington University’s distinguished faculty award. Fazzari served six years as chair of the Department of Economics and recently began a new job as chair of the newly founded Department of Sociology.

Blair FeltmateDr. Feltmate is Director, Sustainability Practice, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, where he teaches the Master of Environment and Business program. Positions he holds include: Intact Financial Chair, Climate Change Adaptation Project, Canada; Senior Advisor, Sustainable Electricity Program, Canadian Electricity Association; Board Member, CLEAResult; Co-Chair, WeatherWise, City of Toronto; Co-Chair, Greening Greater Toronto.

Previous positions Dr. Feltmate has held include: Vice President, Sustainable Development, Bank of Montreal; Director, Sustainable Development, Ontario Power Generation; President, Sustainable Investment Group Ltd.; and, Senior Sustainability Advisor, American Chemistry Council. Dr. Feltmate has devel-oped the sustainable development programs for two dozen multi-national companies and industry associ-ations. He has written scores of papers on corporate sustainable development best practices.

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Thomas FergusonThomas Ferguson is INET’s Director of Research, Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and taught formerly at MIT and the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Golden Rule (University of Chicago Press, 1995) and Right Turn (Hill & Wang, 1986). Most of his research focuses on how economics and politics affect institutions and vice versa. His articles have appeared in many scholarly journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Economic History. He is a long time Contributing Editor to The Nation and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the Historical Society and the International Journal of Political Economy.

Duncan FoleyDuncan Foley is Leo Model Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Barnard College of Columbia University and published extensively in the fields of mathemat-ical economics, Marxist economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, the history of economic thought, economic distribution, stability, sustainability, and development. Lance Taylor and he are the 2015 recipi-ents of the Leontief Prize of Tufts University’s Global Development and Environmental Institute.


Christian Fons-RosenChristian Fons-Rosen did his undergraduate studies in economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He then did his PhD Economics at the London School of Economics finishing in 2010. Since then he is a tenure-track assistant professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. His main research lines are on the economics of innovation and on political economy. He is working on a research agenda on the U.S. lobbying sector to understand questions like: what is the value of a political connection; up to which point do staffers help to set the political agenda; how effective is the lobbying registration regulation. Since last year, he is also the co-director of a new Masters in Data Science at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.

Tiziana ForestiTiziana Foresti (Ph.D. in History of Economic Thought, University of Florence) is currently Junior Researcher at Baffi Center on International Markets, Money and Regulation – Bocconi University and Teaching Fellow at the Department of Economics of Bocconi University. In 2014 she was an INET grantee. She has previously been post-doctoral research fellow in Economics at the Department of Statistics of the University of Rome, La Sapienza as well as the recipient of research grants from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei of Rome. Her research interests range from the problem of the stabi-lization of financial markets in a historical perspective to the dissemination of economic ideas from Europe to the United States between the 1860s and the 1930s.

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Andrea FumagalliAndrea Fumagalli is a militant researcher and professor of economics in the Department of Economics and Management at University of Pavia. He teaches also Theory of Firm at University of Bologna. He is member of Effimera Network, founder member of Bin-Italy (Basic Income Network, Italy) and member of the Executive Committee of BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network and he is active in San Precario Network. Among his recent publications, see The crisis of the Global Economy. Financial markets, social struggles and new political scenarios, Semiotext(e), Mit Press, 2010 (with S.Mezzadra), “Twenty Theses on Contemporary Capitalism (Cognitive Biocapitalism)”, in Angelaki. The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Volume 16, Issue 3, 2011, “Life put to work: towards a theory of life-value”. Ephemera, vol. 10, p. 234-252, 2011 (with C. Morini), “A Financialized Monetary Economy of Production”, International journal of political economy, vol. 41, 2012 (with S. Lucarelli); La vie mise au travail. Nouvelles formes du capitalisme cognitif, Etherotopie France, Paris, 2015.

Nadia GarbelliniNadia Garbellini is a research fellow at the University of Bergamo. She held a post-doc position at the University of Pavia after receiving her Ph.D at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, with a thesis on Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. Her research deals with the application of standard input-output and graph-theoretic techniques to the problems of measurement of productivity changes, international trade, and income distribution.


Michael GazzanigaMichael S. Gazzaniga is the Director of the Sage Center for the study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a Ph.D from the California Institute of Technology in 1964/65, where had primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. He has carried out extensive studies on both sub-human primate and human behavior and cognition. He has established Centers for Cognitive Neuroscience at Cornell Medical School and Dartmouth College and the Center for Neuroscience at UC, Davis. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and also a founder of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. For 20 years he directed the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the major reference text, The Cognitive Neurosciences. He was a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2009. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. His new book Tales from Both Sides of the Brain (2015) is a 50 year perspective on a life in science.

Co-Pierre GeorgCo-Pierre Georg is a Senior Lecturer at the African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management at the University of Cape Town and a Research Economist at Deutsche Bundesbank working mainly on financial networks and the microeconomics of banking. He obtained his PhD in 2011 from the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. His research has been published in the Journal of Banking and Finance and in a recent focus issue of Nature Physics on complex networks in finance. In 2011, Co-Pierre was awarded one of five Lamfalussy fellowships by the European Central Bank for his research on the dynamics of interbank markets and won the runner-up for best student paper at the annual conference of the Society for Computational Economics. He was a consultant at Banque de France, the Bank of Uganda, the Banco Central do Brazil, and the South African Reserve Bank where he worked on the appli-cation of network analysis to financial stability.

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Michael GoldbergMichael D. Goldberg is the Todd H. Crockett Professor of Economics at the University of New Hampshire and a senior research associate at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). He has written extensively in the fields of International Finance and Macroeconomics and his columns on asset price fluc-tuations and policy reform have been published by leading newspapers in more than 50 countries. His bestselling books, Imperfect Knowledge Economics: Exchange Rates and Risk (Princeton University Press, 2007) and Beyond Mechanical Markets: Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State (Princeton University Press, 2011) both co-authored with Roman Frydman, propose a new approach to macroeconomic modeling that recognizes that rational individuals’ decision making and the social context within which they must act change in ways that are, in part, open. Beyond Mechanical Markets was a finalist for the 2011 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award. The book was also one of the Financial Times non-fiction favorites of 2011, commended by its chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, and James Pressley of Bloomberg News selected it as a top business book of 2011. Both Imperfect Knowledge Economics and Beyond Mechanical Markets are translated into multiple foreign languages.

Charles GoodhartCharles Goodhart, CBE, FBA is Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance with the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics, having previ-ously, 1987-2005, been its Deputy Director. Until his retirement in 2002, he had been the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at LSE since 1985. Before then, he had worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980. In 1997 he was appointed one of the outside independent members of the Bank of England’s new Monetary Policy Committee until May 2000. Earlier he had taught at Cambridge and LSE. Besides numerous articles, he has written a couple of books on monetary history; a graduate monetary textbook, Money, Information and Uncertainty (2nd Ed. 1989); two collections of papers on monetary policy, Monetary Theory and Practice (1984) and The Central Bank and The Financial System (1995); and a number of books and articles on Financial Stability, on which subject he was Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England, 2002-2004, and numerous other studies relating to financial markets and to monetary policy and history. His latest books include The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: A History of the Early Years, 1974-1997, (2011), and The Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis (2009).


Michael GrubbMichael Grubb is Professor of International Energy and Climate Change Policy at University College London, editor-in-chief of Climate Policy, and Senior Advisor to the UK Energy Regulator Ofgem. His former posi-tions include Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University (Faculty of Economics and Department of Land Economy); Chair of the international research organization Climate Strategies, and Chief Economist at the Carbon Trust. He advisory positions include both academia (most recently, appointed to the DIW (Berlin) Scientific Advisory Board) and governments (including membership of the Statutory UK Climate Change Committee), and has been a Lead Author for several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Michael Grubb is author of eight books, fifty journal research articles and numerous other publi-cations. His book Planetary Economics (2014) brings together lessons from 25 years of research and imple-mentation of energy and climate policies and has received widespread accolade as a ‘seminal’ contribu-tion, ‘comprehensive and profoundly important’ for its presentation of a new approach to both the theoretical underpinnings and the practical policies for tackling energy and climate change challenges.

Már GuðmundssonMár Guðmundsson was appointed to his current position as Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland in August 2009 for a term of five years. He was reap-pointed in August 2014. From 2004 until his appoint-ment as Governor, he served as Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department (MED) at the Bank for International Settlements. From 1994 to 2004 Mr. Gudmundsson was Chief Economist and Director of the Economics Department at the Central Bank of Iceland. He joined the department as an economist in 1980 and later held the position of Manager and Head of Research. From 1988 to 1991 he served as economic adviser to the Minister of Finance in Iceland. Mr Gudmundsson has a BA-honours degree in Economics from the University of Essex and a M Phil degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/grubb/www.climatepolicy.com

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James HeckmanJames J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he has served since 1973. In addition, he is Professor of Science and Society in University College Dublin and a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He is also Director of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, a project of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Heckman has published over 300 articles and several books. Heckman has received numerous awards for his work, including the John Bates Clark Medal in 1983, the Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, and the American Agricultural Economics Association, the Gold Medal of the President of the Italian Republic, awarded in 2008.

Heckman is the past president of the Western Economics Association and Midwest Economics Association and first vice-president and president- elect of the Econometric Society, the leading world-wide organization for the study and promotion of quantitative economics.

Martin GuzmanMartin Guzman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is a co-chair of Columbia IPD’s Taskforce on Debt Restructuring and Sovereign Bankruptcy, and a member of the INET Research Group on “Macroeconomic Efficiency and Stability.” He holds a PhD in Economics from Brown University. His research fields are Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Economic Growth.


William JanewayWilliam H. Janeway joined Warburg Pincus in 1988. Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Janeway was executive vice president and director at Eberstadt Fleming. Dr. Janeway is a director of Magnet Systems, Nuance Communications, O’Reilly Media and Roubini Global Economics. He is also chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cambridge in America, University of Cambridge and a founder member of the Board of Managers of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). Dr. Janeway is a member of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council, the Board of Governors of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Board of Science Technology and Economic Policy of the National Academy of Sciences. He received his doctorate in economics from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar and was valedictorian of the Class of 1965 at Princeton University.

Cameron HepburnProfessor Cameron Hepburn is the Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Environmental Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is an expert in environmental, resource and energy economics. In addition to his INET Oxford and Smith School roles, he is also a Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and a Fellow at New College, Oxford. He has degrees in law and engineering, a doctorate in economics, and over 30 peer-reviewed publications in economics, public policy, law, engi-neering, philosophy, and biology. His work has been referred to in publications such as the Economist and the Financial Times, and he has been interviewed on television and radio in various countries. He has provided advice on energy and environmental policy to governments and international institutions around the world. He has also had an entrepreneurial career, co- founding two successful businesses and investing in several other start-ups.

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Patrick HonohanPatrick Honohan has been Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland since September 2009. Previously he was Professor of International Financial Economics and Development at Trinity College Dublin and before that a Senior Advisor in the World Bank working on financial sector policy. During the 1980s he was Economic Advisor to the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) and he also spent several years at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, at the International Monetary Fund and an earlier stint at the Central Bank of Ireland. He has taught economics at University College Dublin, at the University of California, San Diego and at the London School of Economics, from which he received his PhD in 1978. His wide range of publications covers topics ranging from financial development, banking crises, and exchange rate regimes, to cost-benefit analysis and statistical methodology.

Richard HymanRichard Hyman is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and founding editor of the European Journal of Industrial Relations. He has written extensively on the themes of industrial relations, trade unionism, industrial conflict and labour market policy, and is author of a dozen books as well as some two hundred journal articles and book chapters. His comparative study Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society (Sage, 2001) is widely cited by scholars working in this field. His latest book, Trade Unions in Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices (with Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick), was published by Oxford University Press in October 2013.


Arjun JayadevArjun Jayadev is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a faculty member at Azim Premji University. He works on issues of Macroeconomics, Finance and Distribution. His research has appeared in several leading journals as well as in popular outlets. He is also a consultant to the Institute for New Economic Thinking where he is deputy director of the Political Economy of Distribution Program and helps oversee the partner-ship between Azim Premji University and INET.

Gudrun JohnsenGudrun Johnsen is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Iceland.

She graduated with a dual-masters degree in Applied Economics and Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2003, and B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Iceland in 1999. Prior to graduate school Gudrun worked as an analyst and a broker for the Nordic Investment Bank and the Icelandic Investment Bank. From 2003-2006 she worked for RAND Corporation and the International Monetary Fund as a research associate. In 2009-2010 Gudrun worked for the Parliamentary Special Investigation Commission, as a senior researcher, looking into the causes and events leading to the fall of the Icelandic banking sector in 2008. Gudrun has served on the board of directors as a Vice-Chairman since she was elected to the board in 2010. Arion bank is the second largest bank in Iceland, estab-lished in 2008 from the domestic arm of the collapsed Kaupthing Bank. Her book, Bringing Down the Banking System: Lessons from Iceland, was published in January 2014 by Palgrave-Macmillan.

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Robert JohnsonRobert Johnson serves as the President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Global Finance Project for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in New York.

Johnson is an international investor and consul-tant to investment funds on issues of portfolio strategy. He recently served on the United Nations Commission of Experts on International Monetary Reform under the Chairmanship of Joseph Stiglitz.

Previously, Johnson was a Managing Director at Soros Fund Management where he managed a global currency, bond and equity portfolio specializing in emerging markets. Prior to working at Soros Fund Management, he was a Managing Director of Bankers Trust Company managing a global currency fund.

Johnson served as Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee under the leadership of Chairman William Proxmire (D. Wisconsin). Before this, he was Senior Economist of the US Senate Budget Committee under the leadership of Chairman Pete Domenici (R. New Mexico).

Johnson was an Executive Producer of the Oscar winning documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, directed by Alex Gibney, and is the former President of the National Scholastic Chess Foundation. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of both the Economic Policy Institute and the Campaign for America’s Future.

Johnson received a PhD and M.A. in Economics from Princeton University and a B.S. in both Electrical Engineering and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Claire JonesClaire Jones is the Eurozone economy correspon-dent for the Financial Times. Prior to this, she was an economics reporter in London. Claire studied philosophy and economics at the London School of Economics.


Paul JorgensenPaul D. Jorgensen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas - Pan American. His research concerns campaign finance and political parties in the United States. Using a grant with the Institute for New Economic Thinking, he is improving campaign finance data in order to create new and more accurate measures of campaign fundraising and spending in the United States. Jorgensen’s research has appeared in the International Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, Political Research Quarterly, and the Policy Studies Journal.

Anatole KaletskyAnatole Kaletsky is founder and co-chairman of GaveKal Dragonomics, an economic consulting and asset management group based in Hong Kong and Beijing. He is also a columnist for Reuters and the International Herald Tribune and Chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. His recent book, Capitalism 4.0, on the post-crisis transformation of the global economy, was nominated for the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize. Before founding Gavekal, he worked for 30 years as an economic journalist and commentator on the Financial Times, The Economist, and the London Times.

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Edward J. KaneEdward J. Kane is Professor of Finance at Boston College. From 1972 to 1992 he held the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics at Ohio State University. A founding member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, Kane rejoined the organization in 2005. He served for twelve years as a trustee and member of the finance committee of Teachers Insurance. Currently, he consults for the World Bank and is a senior fellow in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Center for Financial Research. Previously, Kane has consulted for numerous agencies, including the IMF, components of the Federal Reserve System, and three foreign central banks. He consulted as well for the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Economic Committee, and the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress. He is a past president and fellow of the American Finance Association and a former Guggenheim fellow. He also served as president of the International Atlantic Economic Society and the North American Economics and Finance Association. Kane is a longtime research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has authored three books and coauthored or coedited several more. He has published widely in professional journals and currently serves on seven editorial boards. He received a BS from Georgetown University and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jakob KapellerJakob Kapeller is an economist, who accidentally became a philosopher. He is working as a post-doctoral researchers at the Department of Philosophy and Theory of Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz and serves as an editor for the Heterodox Economics Newsletter (www.heterodoxnews.com) since 2013. He is also affiliated with the Insitute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE) at Johannes Kepler University Linz, which faciliates research on alterna-tive economic theories, critical evaluations of main-stream analysis as well as sociological accounts of economics as a scientific field. His research interests include the epistemology of the social sciences, the history of political and economic thought, heterodox economics and the distribution of income and wealth.


James KurthJames Kurth is Professor of Political Science Emeritus and Senior Research Scholar at Swarthmore College, He is the author of over 120 professional articles and editor of three professional volumes, in the fields of U.S. foreign and defense policy, international politics, and the comparative politics of America and Europe. His recent publications have focused upon the interre-lations between the global economy, cultural conflicts, and military strategy.

Professor Kurth received his A.B. in history from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University, where he also taught as an assistant and associate professor of government. He has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), visiting professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, and visiting professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College, where he received the Department of the Navy medal for Meritorious Civilian Service. He is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia), where he has served as the chair of its Study Group of America and the West and as Editor of its journal Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York), and of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London).

John KayJohn Kay is an economist whose career has spanned the academic world, business and public affairs. Currently, he is a visiting Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is a director of several public companies and contributes a weekly column to the Financial Times. He recently chaired the Review of UK Equity Markets and Long-Term Decision-Making which reported to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in July 2012. He is the author of many books, including The Truth about Markets (2003), The Long and the Short of It: finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry (2009) and Obliquity (2010). His latest book, Other People’s Money – towards a financial system for the needs of the economy rather than financial market participants – will be published by Profile Books and (in North America) by PublicAffairs in September 2015.

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Marc LavoieMarc Lavoie is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa, where he has taught for 35 years. He is also a Research Fellow at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the Hans Böckler Foundation in Düsseldorf and a Research Associate at the Broadbent Institute in Toronto. Lavoie has published close to 200 articles or book chapters in a wide variety of fields, in particular macroeconomics and monetary economics. With Wynne Godley he has written Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Money, Income, Production and Wealth (2007) and with Mario Seccareccia, he has authored the Canadian edition of the Baumol and Blinder first-year textbook (2009). He has recently edited Wage-led Growth: An Equitable Strategy for Economic Recovery (2013, with E. Stockhammer), which deals with the effects of rising income inequality and the drift towards lower wage shares, and also In Defense of Post-Keynesian and Heterodox Economics (2013, with F. Lee). His latest work is Post-Keynesian Economics: New Foundations (2014), which is an exhaustive account of post-Keynesian economic analysis.

William LazonickWilliam Lazonick is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he directs the Center for Industrial Competitiveness. He is co-founder and president of The Academic-Industry Research Network. He is visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana, Telecom School of Management, and the University of Toronto. Previously, Lazonick was assistant and associate professor of economics at Harvard University, professor of economics at Barnard College of Columbia University, and distinguished research professor at INSEAD in France. He holds an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University. Professor Lazonick’s research focuses on the theory of innova-tive enterprise and the social conditions of innovation and development. His book, Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States (Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 2009) was awarded the 2010 Schumpeter Prize by the International Schumpeter Society. Lazonick’s “Profits Without Prosperity: Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market and Leave Most Americans Worse Off,” Harvard Business Review, September 2014 has received widespread attention. His publications, working papers, and media columns can be found at www.theAIRnet.org.

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Domenico LombardiDomenico Lombardi is director of CIGI’s Global Economy program, overseeing the research direc-tion of the program and related activities. He serves as Chair of The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy and sits on the advisory boards of the Bretton Woods Committee in Washington, the G20 Research Group and the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto, and the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome. Mr. Lombardi is a member of the Financial Times Forum of Economists and editor of the World Economics Journal.

In 2011, he served as the rapporteur for the High-Level Panel on the Governance of the Financial Stability Board. A year earlier, he was appointed by the World Bank Group’s Board of Directors as the External Reviewer to conduct the first independent review of the Group’s Oversight and Accountability Units. In 2009, Mr. Lombardi authored the report to the IMF Managing Director on IMF Governance Reform (“Fourth Pillar Report”). Prior to that, Mr. Lombardi’s distinguished career includes positions on the exec-utive boards of major international financial institu-tions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Mr. Lombardi has an undergraduate degree summa cum laude in Banking and Finance from Bocconi University, Milan, and a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University (Nuffield College).

Pia MalaneyDr. Pia Malaney’s research has focused on economic, biological, and sociological approaches to human welfare. Her dissertation, written under Eric Maskin, established a new Gauge Theoretic foundation for welfare economics allowing biological and behavioral realism for dynamic economic agents. She has held positions at the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Center for International Development at Harvard’s Kennedy School where she worked in collaboration with Asian and African governments of the development of health care and economic policies. Dr. Malaney’s current research focus is the role of scientific realism in the foundations of economic theory and its expected effects on the economics of development, education, gender, and welfare. She received her BA from Wellesley College and her PhD from Harvard University.

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Catherine MannMs. Mann also supervises the contributions of the Economics Department to the New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) and Inclusive Growth (IG) initiatives and serves as the OECD Representative at the Deputies’ meetings of the G20 Finance Track.

Ms. Mann has enjoyed a distinguished career in the public sector and academia. Following 20-plus years in Washington DC, she was the Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance at Brandeis University and from 1997-2011 was a Senior Fellow and visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Earlier in her career Ms. Mann served as a Senior International Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisors in the White House and worked as a Special Assistant to the Vice-President for Development Economics/Chief Economist at the World Bank. She also spent 13 years on the Federal Reserve Board as a Senior Economist and Assistant Director in the International Finance Division.

She is a US citizen and holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Harvard University.

J.L. McCombieJohn McCombie is Professor of Regional and Applied Economics in the Department of Land Economy, and Director of the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is Fellow and Director of Studies of Economics and Land Economy at Downing College, Cambridge. He has previously been a member of the Department of Economics at the University of Hull, U.K. and University of Melbourne, Australia. John McCombie is a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

He is co-editor of Spatial Economic Analysis. His research interests are regional economics, the causes of regional and national growth rate dispari-ties, economic growth and the balance-of-payments constraint and economic methodology in the light of the current economic crisis. He has published widely in such journals as the Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Papers, Urban Studies, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Metroeconomica, and the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics. His latest major work is the book (co-authored with Jesus Felipe) entitled The Aggregate Production Function and Technical Change. ‘Not Even Wrong’ (Edward Elgar, 2013), which is a fundamental critique of this widely used macroeconomic concept.


Perry MehrlingPerry G. Mehrling, Professor of Economics, joined the faculty of Barnard College in 1987, where he teaches courses on the economics of money and banking, the history of money and finance, and the finan-cial dimensions of the U.S. retirement, health, and education systems. His most recent book is The New Lombard Street: How the Fed became the dealer of last resort (Princeton 2011). His best-known book Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance (Wiley 2005, 2012) has recently been released in a revised paperback edition. Currently, Prof. Mehrling directs the educa-tional initiatives of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, one of which is his course Economics of Money and Banking, available on Coursera at www.coursera.org/course/money.

Rohinton MedhoraRohinton Medhora is President of the Centre for International Governance Innovation a non-partisan think tank located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. CIGI’s research programs focus on four themes: global economy; environment and energy; global development; and global security. Previously he was Vice President, Programs at Canada’s International Development Research Centre, a research funder. He received his doctorate in economics in 1988 from the University of Toronto, where he also subsequently taught for a number of years. His fields of expertise are monetary and trade policy, international economic relations, and aid effectiveness. He has published extensively on these issues and is currently co-ed-iting books on development thought and practice, Canada’s relations with Africa, and Canada’s role in the international financial system. He serves on the Boards of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research.

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Salvatore MorelliSalvatore Morelli holds a D.Phil in Economics at the University of Oxford (October 2013) and in February 2014 joined the CSEF as a post-doctoral fellow. He is also a Research Associate at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. His research interests centre around the economics of income and wealth distribution, macroeconomic history and applied microeconomics. His research to date has investigated the evolution as well as the measurement of several dimensions of economic inequality over time for a series of countries (together with T. Atkinson he assembled a novel historical collec-tion of data on economic inequality, The Chartbook of Economic Inequality, and released in March 2014 a related open-access interactive website. Moreover, jointly with T. Smeeding (U Wisconsin-Madison) and J. Thompson (Fed’s Board of Governors) he wrote a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution Vol 2A, Elsevier, 2015, edited by A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon). One of his recent paper “Inequality and crises revisited” ( joint with A. Atkinson) is forthcoming in the Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics. With Facundo Alvaredo (PSE, Oxford) and Anthony Atkinson (Oxford) he is writing a new paper on the evolution of wealth distribution in the UK since the 1896 and with Edoardo Di Porto (CSEF) and Paolo Lucchino (LSE) he is exploring the consumption responses of UK households to recent changes in personal income allowances. Salvatore is also a grantee of the INET for his project “The Long Run History of Economic Inequality: Income, Wealth and Financial Crisis” ( jointly with F. Alvaredo and A.B. Atkinson, F. Dennig, T. Piketty and M. Roser).

Branko MilanovicCurrently, presidential professor at the Graduate Center City University of New York and senior fellow at Luxembourg Income Study. He obtained his Ph. D. in economics at the University of Belgrade with a disser-tation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He was lead economist in World Bank Research Department for almost 20 years and senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington (2003–2005). He held teaching appointments at University of Maryland (2007–2013) and School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University (1997–2007). Milanovic’s main area of work is income inequality, in individual countries and globally. He has published a number of articles on methodology and empirics of global income distribu-tion and effects of globalization (Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Political Philosophy etc.). His most recent book The Haves and the Have-nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality, was published in 2011, translated in seven languages, and selected by The Globalist as 2011 Book of the Year.


Léonce NdikumanaLéonce Ndikumana is a Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Director of the African Development Policy Program at the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research is on capital flight, domestic investment and financial intermediation, macroeco-nomic frameworks for growth and employment, and the politics and economics of conflict in Africa. He is a Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Stellenbosch and a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy. He holds a doctorate in economics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and is a graduate of the University of Burundi.

Alain ParguezDr Alain Parguez is Emeritus Professor of Economics of the University of Franche-Comte, Besancon (France) and was associated with the Economics Department at the University of Ottawa. He has worked extensively on developing a genuine general theory of capitalism, that is a monetary production economy, which he labeled the Theory of the Monetary Ciruit. He has written extensively on monetary policy, crisis theory and economic policy, including many articles on the impact of austerity measures, which he believes are the cause of world crises. Alain Parguez was the editor of Monnaie et Production from 1984 to 1996, and has written numerous articles and books. He is currently writing a book on the General Theory of the Monetary Circuit and its economic policy implications.

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Mario PiantaMario Pianta is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Urbino and has been a member (2011-2014) of the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy’s Academy of Sciences, working on a project on ‘Evolution and economic change’. He has also been Braudel fellow at the European University Institute; visiting fellow at the London School of Economics; visiting fellow at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has worked on economic growth, inequality, innovation, industrial policy and economic policy alternatives for Europe. He has directed research projects for the European Commission and has participated in projects for the EU, the OECD, ILO, UNRISD, LSE, the Bank of Italy and the Italian Ministry of Research. He has published extensively in international journals; his next book will be Explaining inequality.

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Lynn ParramoreLynn Parramore is a cultural theorist who studies the intersection of culture and economics. She is the Director of the New Economic Dialogue Project at AlterNet, where she received the Bill Moyers fellowship in journalism for 2012. She is also a regular columnist at Reuters and Al Jazeera, and a frequent commentator on major news outlets, from the New York Times to MSNBC. Lynn’s first book of cultural history, Reading the Sphinx, was published by Palgrave in 2008 and chosen as a “Notable Scholarly Book” for that year by the Chronicle of Higher Education. A web entrepreneur, Lynn is co-founder of the Next New Deal (formerly New Deal 2.0) blog of the Roosevelt Institute, where she served as media fellow from 2009-2011. She is also co-founder of Recessionwire.com. In her book Third World America, Arianna Huffington highlighted Lynn as a “can-do entrepreneur” to watch.

Lynn received her doctorate from New York University in 2007. She has taught writing and semi-otics at NYU and has collaborated with some of the country’s leading economists on her ebooks, including “Corporations for the 99%” with William Lazonick and “New Economic Visions” with Gar Alperovitz. In 2011, Lynn co-edited a key documentary book on the Occupy movement: The 99%: How the Occupy Movement is Changing America.

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Florence PisaniFlorence Pisani has a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Paris Dauphine. She is currently an econ-omist with CANDRIAM Investors Group and previ-ously worked in the same position with the French investment bank CPR. She is also teaching at the University of Paris Dauphine

She published several books with Anton Brender. The last ones published by the CEPS, in Brussels being Global Imbalances and The Collapse of Globalised Finance (2010) and with Emile Gagna, The Sovereign Debt Crisis: Placing a Curb On Growth (2012) and Money, Finance and the Real Economy: What went wrong? (2015).

Dominique PlihonDominique Plihon is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Economics of Paris-Nord University (France). He was in charge of a Master Program in Banking and Finance. He has been Dean of the Department of Economics from 1995 to 1997.

Plihon graduated from Paris University (M.A. in Economics and Political Science in 1969) and from the State University of New York at Albany (United States) (Ph.D. in economics in 1974).

Plihon worked at the Banque de France (1974 – 1983) and at the Commissariat du Plan (1983 – 1988). He is now professor emeritus at Paris nord University. He was a member of the Council of Economic Analysis attached to the Prime Minister (2001 – 2004).

Plihon has published in the fields of banking, inter-national finance, European economics. Among his recent publications: The banks , new strategies, a book published (in French) in 1998 by the Documentation Française. Exchange rates, a book published (in French) by La Découverte (2012). Central Banks and the financial crisis, (Documentation Française, 2011).

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Yide QiaoYide Qiao is Vice Chairman & Secretary General of Shanghai Development Research Foundation (SDRF) which is a non-profit institution with purpose of promoting research on the issues of development. He is also the president of Excellence® Academy of Development Research (EADR).

Mr.Qiao was enrolled into Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1985. After gradua-tion, he entered Harvard Institute for International Development and did research work. In 1995, he returned China as Chief Representative and Managing Director of New York Life until May, 2003.

Prior to study in the states, Yide Qiao conducted a research at Institute of World Economy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences as its Assistant Director.

He is a main author of following books or research reports:• Chinese Economy: The Next 30 Years, August, 2011

Shanghai People Publish House• The Reform of the International Monetary System: Past,

Present and Future, May, 2014 Shanghai Far East Publishers

Richard PortesRichard Portes, Professor of Economics at London Business School, is Founder and President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), inau-gural holder of the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair at the European University Institute, and Co-Chair of the Board of Economic Policy. He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the British Academy. He is a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee to the European Systemic Risk Board, of the Steering Committee of the Euro50 Group, and of the Bellagio Group on the International Economy. Professor Portes was a Rhodes Scholar and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (of which he is now an Honorary Fellow), and has also taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Birkbeck College (University of London). He has been Distinguished Global Visiting Professor at the Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley, and Joel Stern Visiting Professor of International Finance at Columbia Business School. He holds three honorary doctorates. His current research interests include international macroeconomics, international finance, macroprudential regulation, European bond markets and European integration. He has written extensively on globalisation, sovereign borrowing and debt, European monetary issues, European financial markets, and international capital flows.


Gabriela RamosGabriela Ramos is the OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20. Since 2006, she has been advising the Secretary-General, supporting his strategic agenda and contributing to the opening up of the organization to new members and partner countries. Recently, she contributed to the launch of major OECD initiatives related to gender issues, skills and development. Since 2009, having also taken on the role as the OECD Sherpa to the G20, she has been co-ordinating the contribu-tions of the OECD to the group and has been repre-senting the organization at the G20 Sherpa meetings.

Previously, she served as Head of the OECD Office in Mexico and Latin America, where she promoted OECD recommendations in many areas including health and education. She helped in the preparations of several OECD reports on Mexico, developed the OECD Forum there and launched the Getting it Right flagship publication series.

Prior to joining the OECD, Mrs. Ramos held several positions in the Mexican Government, notably as advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director of OECD Affairs. She has also held several positions as Professor of International Economy at the Universidad Iberoamericana and at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Ms Ramos holds an MA in Public Policies from Harvard University, and was a Fulbright and Ford MacArthur fellow.

Monika QueisserMonika Queisser is Head of Social Policy Division at the OECD, where she supervises and coordinates the work on social protection spending, social indi-cators, pensions, family policies, tax-benefit systems and income inequality and poverty. She also leads the OECD-wide gender intiative which examines gender inequalities in education, employment and entrepre-neurship. Her background is in pension system analysis and pension reform. She has been working at the OECD since 1997. In 2007-8, she worked as an adviser to the OECD Secretary-General.Prior to joining the OECD, Ms. Queisser worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. She was a member of the pensions and insurance group in the Financial Sector Development Department. Her first employ-ment was with the German Ifo Institute for economic research in Munich. Her professional experience also includes employment as a journalist at daily newspa-pers and broadcasting in Germany.

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Robert SampsonRobert J. Sampson is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard and Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, he received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2011. Sampson’s research focuses on urban inequality, crime, the life course, human and social capital, and the social struc-ture of the contemporary city. He is the author of numerous journal articles and three award-winning books. His most recent book — Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect — was published by the University of Chicago Press and received the 2014 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association.

Hélène ReyHélène Rey is Professor of Economics at London Business School. Until 2007, she was at Princeton University, as Professor of Economics and International Affairs in the Economics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School. In 2005 she was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. She received the 2006 Bernácer Prize for “her important research on the determinants and consequences of external trade and financial imbalances, the theory of financial crisis and the internationalization of currencies”. She received in 2012 the inaugural Birgit Grodal Prize of the European Economic Association , in 2013 the Yrjö Jahnsson Prize and in 2014 the inau-gural Carl Menger Prize. She is on the Board of the Haut Conseil de Stabilité Financière, a member of the Commission Economique de la Nation and of the Bellagio Group on the international economy. She is also on the Board of INET. She writes a regular column for the French newspaper Les Echos. Her website is http://www.helenerey.eu where you can find links to profiles of Professor Rey done by Bloomberg, the Financial Times and Le Monde among others.

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Leonard SeabrookeLen Seabrooke is Professor in the Department of Business and Politics (DBP) at the Copenhagen Business School. He joined CBS in 2005 and is also the former Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick (2009-2010), where he also served as the Director of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform. Len is Chief Scientist for the ‘European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times’ (ENLIGHTEN, 2015-2018) project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme. He recently completed a project as Principal Investigator for the European Research Council (PIPES, 2011-2014), as well as leading other research projects for the EC and the Norwegian Research Council. Formerly a co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy (2007-2012), he is now a senior editor of International Studies Quarterly (2014-2018). Len’s research interests are transnational professionals, international organizations, NGOs, activist movements, consultancy communities, and networks around economic ideas. He is currently completing a monograph titled ‘World For Sale: The Market for International Organization’.

Mario SeccarecciaMario Seccareccia is Full Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada where, since 1978, he has been teaching macro-economics, monetary theory, labor economics, history of economic thought, and economic history, subjects on which he has also published extensively. He has written over 100 academic articles in scientific refereed journals or chapters of books, and has authored or edited a dozen books. He has also edited or co-edited approximately 35 special issues of journals. Many of these publications are of interdisciplinary nature and cover many areas of political economy. Mario Seccareccia has been visiting professor in a number of universities in France (Université de Bourgogne, Université de Grenoble, and Université Paris-Sud) and Mexico (UNAM) and participates regularly in policy debate in both Europe and North America. He is also research associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in Ottawa and, since 2004, has been editor of the International Journal of Political Economy, an interdisciplinary journal published by Taylor & Francis largely focused on policy questions of national and international scope.

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Annamaria SimonazziAnnamaria Simonazzi is Professor of Economics at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where she is the director of the Master in Economics and local coor-dinator of the European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies. She presides the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, a research institute carrying out research activities, technical assistance, and capacity building in the fields of labour, economics, development and culture in Europe. She is co-director of the journal Economia & Lavoro and member of the editorial board of the web magazine www.inGenere.it.

Her research interests range from macroeco-nomics, to social policy, gender and labour economics. Recent publications include: Economic relations between Germany and Southern Europe, The Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2013 (co-authored); Change in care regimes and female migration. The ‘care drain’ in the Mediterranean, Journal of European Social Policy, 2006 (co-authored); Italy: Continuity and Change in Welfare State Retrenchment in D. Vaughan-Whitehead (Ed.), The European Social Model in Crisis – Is Europe losing its Soul?, Edward Elgar 2015.

Andrew ShengAndrew Sheng is a distinguished fellow at Fung Global Institute, chief adviser to the China Banking Regulatory Commission, and a board member of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the sovereign wealth fund of Malaysia. He also serves as an adviser to the UN Environment Program Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System. Mr. Sheng also serves as a member of the Future of Finance Advisory Council, the International Advisory Council of the China Investment Corporation, the China Development Bank, the Advisory Council on Shanghai as an International Financial Centre, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Board of India. Previously, he served as chairman of the Securities & Futures Commission of Hong Kong and as a central banker at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and at Bank Negara Malaysia. Mr. Sheng has also worked at the World Bank. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Malaya and at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. Mr. Sheng is the author of From Asian to Global Financial Crisis: An Asian Regulator’s View of Unfettered Finance in the 1990s and 2000s. He holds a BSc in economics and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol.

Areas of Expertise:• International Finance and Monetary Economics• Financial Regulation• Global Governance

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Tania SingerTania Singer is the Director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig since 2010. After receiving her PhD in Psychology at the MPI for Human Development in Berlin, she became a Post-doctoral Fellow at the same institution, at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, and at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in London. In 2006, she went to the University of Zurich as Assistant Professor and later as Inaugural Chair of Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics and Co-Director of the Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research.

Her research focusses on the behavioral, neural, and hormonal basis of human social cognition and emotions and the motivational underpinnings of economic decision making and cooperation. Tania Singer is the Principal Investigator of the ReSource Project, a longitudinal study that investigates the psychological and neuroscientific effects of compas-sion and other mental training techniques. Together with Prof. Snower, from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, she works on the topic of Caring Economics. They investigate how biology and psychology can inform new economic models and decision-making.

Hans-Werner SinnHans-Werner Sinn is Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich, President of the Ifo Institute, Director of the University of Munich’s Center for Economic Studies, and Director of CESifo. He is a member of the Council of Economic Advisors to the German Ministry of Economics as well as former president of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF). Sinn holds honorary doctorate degrees of the universities of Magdeburg, Helsinki and HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and he has been honoured with the Maximilians Order. His fields of interest include the economics of transi-tion, risk and insurance, natural resources, monetary trade theory and public finance. In these areas he has published more than 300 scholarly and policy articles. He has published a dozen monographs with more than 30 editions in six languages. They include titles such as Can Germany Still Be Saved?, Casino Capitalism, The Green Paradox and The Euro Trap.

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Robert SkidelskyDennis J. Snower is President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of Economics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.

Dennis J. Snower earned a BA and MA from New College, Oxford University, an MA and a PhD at Princeton University. Prior to becoming President of the Kiel Institute, he was Professor of Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London.

He is an expert on labor economics, public policy and inflation-unemployment tradeoffs. He originated the “insider-outsider” theory of employment and unemployment with Assar Lindbeck, the theory of “high-low search” with Steve Alpern, and the “chain reaction theory of unemployment” and the theory of “frictional growth” with Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala. He has published extensively on employ-ment policy, the design of welfare systems, and mone-tary and fiscal policy.

He has been a visiting professor at Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, the European University Institute, Stockholm University, and the Vienna Institute of Advanced Studies. Furthermore, he has advised a variety of international organizations and national governments on macroeconomic policy, employment policy and welfare state policy.

Dennis SnowerDennis J. Snower is President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of Economics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.

Dennis J. Snower earned a BA and MA from New College, Oxford University, an MA and a PhD at Princeton University. Prior to becoming President of the Kiel Institute, he was Professor of Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London.

He is an expert on labor economics, public policy and inflation-unemployment tradeoffs. He originated the “insider-outsider” theory of employment and unemployment with Assar Lindbeck, the theory of “high-low search” with Steve Alpern, and the “chain reaction theory of unemployment” and the theory of “frictional growth” with Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala. He has published extensively on employ-ment policy, the design of welfare systems, and mone-tary and fiscal policy.

He has been a visiting professor at Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, the European University Institute, Stockholm University, and the Vienna Institute of Advanced Studies. Furthermore, he has advised a variety of international organizations and national governments on macroeconomic policy, employment policy and welfare state policy.


Jeffrey SpearJeffrey L. Spear is an Associate Professor of English at New York University where he teaches Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature, and Visual Culture. He is the author of Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and His Tradition in Social Criticism (Columbia UP, 1984), and has published essays on Victorian writers including Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, William Morris, John Ruskin and Bram Stoker. He also writes on British India, most recently “Was She this Name: Law, Literature and the Devadasi” in The Letter of the Law: Literature, Justice and the Other eds. Dimakopoulou, Dokou and Efterpi (Lang 2013).

George SorosGeorge Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and founder of the Open Society Foundations. He was born in Budapest in 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation and fled communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics. He then settled in the United States, where he accumulated a large fortune through an inter-national investment fund he founded and managed. Soros has been active as a philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help black students attend Cape Town University in apartheid South Africa. He has established a network of philanthropic organizations active in more than 70 countries. These organizations are dedicated to promoting the values of democracy and an open society. The foundation network spends about $500 million annually. Soros is the author of twelve books, including most recently Financial Turmoil in Europe and United States. His arti-cles and essays on politics, society, and economics regularly appear in major newspapers and magazines around the world.

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Joseph StiglitzJoseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, the winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and a lead author of the 1995 IPCC report, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton and chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank for 1997-2000. Stiglitz received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded annually to the American economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the subject. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, held the Drummond Professorship at All Souls College Oxford, and has also taught at M.I.T, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton. He is the author most recently of The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future. In 2011, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people.

Servaas StormServaas Storm is a Dutch economist and author who works on macro-economics, technological progress, income distribution & economic growth; finance; development and structural change; and climate change. He is a Senior Lecturer at Delft University of Technology. He obtained a PhD in Economics (in 1992) from Erasmus University Rotterdam. His work has appeared in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Development and Change, Eastern Economic Review, Industrial Relations, International Review of Applied Economics, International Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal of Development Economics and Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. His latest book, co-authored by C.W.M. Naastepad, is Macroeconomics Beyond the NAIRU (Harvard University Press, 2012) and winner of the 2013 Myrdal Prize of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Servaas Storm is one of the editors of Development and Change (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-7660 ) and a member of the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Working Group on the Political Economy of Distribution. INET published his paper (co-authored by C.W.M. Naastepad) on “Crisis and Recovery in the German Economy: The Real Lessons” (http://ineteconomics.org/research-papers/crisis-and-recovery-german-economy-real-lessons ).


Lance TaylorLance Taylor is Arnhold Professor Emeritus, New School for Social Research. He is currently working on demand-driven growth models of income and wealth distributions and climate change.

Peter TeminPeter Temin is the Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1959 and his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1964. Professor Temin was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, 1962-65; the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University, 1985-86; Head of the Economics Department at MIT, 1990-93; and President of the Economic History Association, 1995-96. Professor Temin’s most recent books are The Roman Market Economy (Princeton University Press, 2013), Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England’s Financial Revolution after 1700 (Oxford University Press, 2013, with Hans-Joachim Voth), The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It (Princeton University Press, 2013, with David Vines) and Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy (MIT Press, 2014, with David Vines).

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Andrea TerziAndrea Terzi is Professor of Economics at Franklin University Switzerland, Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and Lecturer of monetary economics at Catholic University, Milan, Italy. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee and the University of Cambridge. Actively engaged in upgrading the teaching of monetary economics, Terzi directs his research to the fields of money, macro-financial accounts, and the relationship between savings, finance, and debt. He has authored numerous scholarly articles in the fields of macro- and monetary economics. Terzi’s co-edited 2007 book from Palgrave Macmillan (Euroland and the World Economy) offered an early diagnosis of Europe’s unsus-tainable path, and his commentary on the Euro crisis and the flaws of conventional monetary economics has been highlighted in the media. Terzi, who holds a degree with honors in political economy from Bocconi University and a Ph.D. in economics from Rutgers University, serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention and the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.

Sara ThorntonSara Thornton is Professor of English at the University of Paris Diderot where she teaches nineteenth-century literature and cultural studies. Her seminar “Victorian Persistence” treats the present-day globalization of textual and visual forms, their ideologies and aesthetics and the power of literature, political economy, philos-ophy and art to circulate and survive beyond Victorian times. She has published Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Dickens, Balzac and the Language of the Walls (Palgrave Macmillan 2009), David Copperfield (Editions du Temps 2006), Circulation and Transfer of Key Scenes in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Cahiers Charles V (2010), Persistent Dickens, Etudes Anglaises with Alain Jumeau (Klincksieck 2012), Littérature et publicité : de Balzac à Beigbeder, co-edi-tion with L. Guellec and F. Hache-Bissette (Editions Gaussen, 2012). She is working on The View from Engels’ Boat : aesthetic responses to economic pressures in Victorian text and image. She directs the ‘Cultural Intelligence and Innovation’ Masters programme at Paris Diderot where she has been working on research and industry impact and outreach projects to promote the human-ities in industry and public organisations.


Walker ToddHometown: Murfreesboro, TN. Residence: Chagrin Falls, OH. B.A., Vanderbilt; Ph.D., Columbia; J.D., Boston U. • Attorney/legal officer, Federal Reserve Bank of New

York (1974-85).• Member, U.S. negotiating team, Iranian hostages

release (1981). • Legal/economics research officer, Federal Reserve

Bank of Cleveland (1985-94). • Adjunct instructor, Cleveland-Marshall Coll. of Law,

Cleveland State U., 1988-2000. • Instructor, Special Studies, Chautauqua Institution,

NY (www.ciweb.org), 1997-2014. • Research fellow, American Institute for Economic

Research (AIER, www.aier.org), 1997-2014; trustee as of Oct. 2014.

• Director (since 1997), Committee for Monetary Research and Education, NY (www.cmre.org).

• Numerous publications in law and economics, monetary economics, structure/regulation of finan-cial institutions, and history of property rights.

• Enrolled Agent (since 2011) and tax preparer, H&R Block, 1998-present.

• INET grantee, 2014 (www.inet.org). • Articles approved for 2015 publication in Cato

Journal and Research in Financial Services: Private and Public Policy.

• Attorney admissions: NY & OH; federal district and appellate courts, NY, OH, & CO; U.S. Supreme Court.

Laurène TranLaurène Tran is a member of PEPS-Economie, the French students’ association for pluralistic teaching in Economics.

A graduate in economics and sociology from Paris VII University, Laurène Tran is currently pursuing an Erasmus Mundus Master’s Course “Economics Policies in the Age of Globalization”, coordinated by Paris XIII University.

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Eleni TsingouEleni Tsingou is Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Copenhagen Business School. She holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests are in the fields of international political economy and comparative political economy (global financial governance, policy networks, insti-tutional political economy, welfare states) with a special focus on financial reform, anti-money laun-dering and demographic change. She was a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform. She has published numerous book chapters and articles in Review of International Political Economy, Regulation and Governance, Journal of European Public Policy, International Political Sociology, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and International Politics. She is co-editor of Great Expectations, Slow Transformations (2013, ECPR) and author of Masters of Compliance in Money Laundering Governance (2015, Edward Elgar).

Judy TsuiJudy Tsui is a Canadian Chartered Accountant and was the first to be awarded a PhD in Accounting in Hong Kong in 1994. She has been appointed as a Visiting Scholar of the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA and is currently an Honorary Professor of the University of Warwick in the U.K. She was the first professor in Accounting who was awarded the Cheung Kong Chair Professorship by the Ministry of Education in the Mainland (2005–2008).

Prof. Tsui served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of CLP Holdings Ltd (2005–2014) and China Vanke Co. Ltd. in the Mainland (2005–2011) and as its consultant (2011–2013).

Prof. Tsui was a featured speaker at TEDxHongKongED in May 2014. Her talk, New Paradigm for Education in Greater China: Respect and Challenge, can be seen on YouTube. Presentation slides are also available at http://slidesha.re/1k3gh4g.


David TuckettProfessor David Tuckett is Director of UCL’s Centre for the Study of Decision-making Uncertainty, supported by INET and the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. Trained in Economics, Medical Sociology and Psychoanalysis he is Professor in the Faculty of Brain Sciences and a practicing psychoanalyst.” His book Minding the Markets: An Emotional Finance View of Financial Instability opened new ways of thinking about Economics and Finance and he has also written a monograph published by the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute. He used an inaugural INET grant to develop a new approach to decision making under deep uncertainty; Conviction Narrative Theory and Directed Algorithmic Text Analysis. The approach made it possible to develop core indicators of relative sentiment shifts in text narratives. An outstanding feature of these new findings is that the measures of emotion, which are entirely different to those used in conventional sentiment analysis, are orthogonal to economic news content, demonstrating statistically for the first time that emotional shifts in narratives Granger-cause major economic variables and indicate the growth of financial risk.

Adair TurnerAdair Turner has combined careers in business, public policy and academia. He became Chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority as the financial crisis broke in September 2008, and played a leading role in the redesign of the global banking and shadow banking regulation as Chairman of the International Financial Stability Board’s major policy committee. He is now a Senior Fellow of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and at the Centre for Financial Studies in Frankfurt. The Institute for New Economic Thinking is a global economic research foundation committed to the development of real world solutions to the economic and social challenges of the 21st century.

Prior to 2008 Lord Turner was a non-executive Director at Standard Chartered Bank (2006–2008); Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe (2000–2006); and from 1995–1999, Director General of the Confederation of British Industry. He was with McKinsey & Co. from 1982 to 1995.

Adair became a cross-bench member of the House of Lords in 2005 and was appointed Chair of the Climate Change Committee in 2008, stepping down in 2012; he also chaired the Pensions Commission from 2003 to 2006, and the Low Pay Commission from 2002 to 2006.

He is the author of ‘Just Capital—The Liberal Economy’ (Macmillan, 2001), and ‘Economics after the Crisis, (MIT Press, 2012), and holds Visiting Professorships at the London School of Economics and at Cass Business School, City University. He is a Trustee and Chair of the Audit Committee at the British Museum.

Lord Turner studied History and Economics at Caius College, Cambridge.

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Vamsi VakulabharanamVamsi Vakulabharanam is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Previously, he taught at the University of Hyderabad (2008–14) and the City University of New York (2004–08). He was a grantee at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET, NY) between 2011 and 2014 on a project titled, ‘Economic Development and Inequality: What Can the Asian Experience Teach Us?’ He was a Fellow of the India China Institute of the New School (NY) between 2008 and 2010. He has worked on issues pertaining to agrarian change in the context of globalization in developing economies, agrarian cooperatives, and the relationship between economic development and inequality. His recent research focuses on inequality in the contemporary Asian econ-omies, including India and China.

Rens van TilburgRens van Tilburg (1974) is member and managing director of the Sustainable Finance Lab (SFL), a network of eminent academics of different Dutch universities. The SFL contributes to a more sustain-able financial sector by providing fresh thinking and providing a platform for discussion with the sector, policymakers, supervisors and the broader public. The secretariat of SFL is located at the University of Utrecht School of Economics.

Before Rens worked in the European Parliament, the Dutch Parliament, as an advisor to the Dutch government and at the Centre for Research on Multinational Companies (SOMO). Rens is a frequent commentator on financial issues, from sustainable finance to the eurocrisis, in the Dutch media and has a regular column in the largest daily quality newspaper.

Recently Rens has published on the financial risk of the carbon bubble and the effects of the large Dutch financial sector on the rest of the economy.


Till van TreeckTill van Treeck is professor of social economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is also a senior research fellow at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) in Duesseldorf, Germany. Till obtained degrees in economics and political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lille, France, the University of Muenster, Germany, and Leeds University Business School, UK. Till is managing academic director of the Research Institute for Science-Based Societal Development (FWGW) in Duesseldof, Germany. Besides, he is a member of the organizing committee of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) and managing co-editor of the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies (EJEEP). His research interests include income distribution from a macroeconomic perspective, European and German economic policy, and economics education. His work on inequality as a cause of macroeconomic instability was funded by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).

Yanis VaroufakisBorn in Athens, 1961, Varoufakis read Mathematical Economics (Essex), Mathematical Statistics (Birmingham) and completed a PhD in Economics (Essex). His academic appointments included posts at the Universities of Essex, East Anglia, Cambridge, Glasgow, the Université Catholique de Louvain, Sydney, Athens and Texas at Austin.

Since the global and European crises began in 2008, Varoufakis has been an active participant in the debates occasioned by these events, with op-eds in Le Monde, Die Zeit, BBC Online, Handelsblatt, FAZ, The New York Times etc. Together with Stuart Holland and James Galbraith, he is the author of A Modest Proposal for Resolving the Euro Crisis, recently published in a number of European languages with a Preface by M. Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France.

His next book, to be published in 2015, is entitled: • Europe Unhinged: The Next Phase of the Global Crisis

(NY: Nation Books)Previous books include: • The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future

of the World Economy (Zed Books, 2013)• Economic Indeterminacy: A personal encounter with the

economists’ peculiar nemesis (Routledge, 2013)

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Sarah VoitchovskySarah Voitchovsky is an SNSF Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. Her main research interests include the inter- relationships between inequality and economic growth and the behaviour of heterogeneous agents. Recent work also focusses on issues relating to the labour market outcomes of immigrants. She previously worked at the UCD Geary Institute in Dublin, having received a Doctorate in Economics (DPhil) from the University of Oxford. Prior to the Doctorate, she studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Lausanne.

Ulrich VolzUlrich Volz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at SOAS, University of London. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the German Development Institute (DIE) and a Honorary Professor of East Asian Economics at the University of Leipzig. Ulrich previously taught at Peking University, Hertie School of Governance, Freie Universität Berlin and Central University of Finance and Economics. He has spent stints working at the European Central Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, University of Birmingham, ECB, Bank Indonesia, and Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. He was also a Fox International Fellow and Max Kade Scholar at Yale University. He has been an adviser to a number of central banks, international organisations and devel-opment agencies. His areas of expertise include money, banking and finance; open economy macroeconomics; international economic interdependencies; and global economic governance. Ulrich has published widely in these areas. His latest book, Financing the Green Transformation — How to Make Green Finance Work in Indonesia, will be published in spring 2015.


Ariel WirkiermanAriel Luis Wirkieman is a research economist who graduated from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (BSc.), National University of La Plata, Argentina (MSc.) and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy (Ph.D), where he currently holds a research fellow-ship for the study of economic networks. His main research activity is focused on the quantitative analysis of general interdependence in industrial systems. In particular, he has applied econometric, input-output and graph-theoretic techniques to problems related to economic structure, technical progress and interna-tional trade. Before his doctoral studies, he served as economic officer to the Economic Policy Secretariat of the Ministry of Economy and Production in Argentina, as well as junior researcher at the Economic Research Institute of the University of Buenos Aires.

Martin WolfMartin Wolf, CBE is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism.

Mr Wolf was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism for 1989 and 1997. He won the RTZ David Watt memorial prize for 1994. He won the “Accenture Decade of Excellence” at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2003. He won the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic commentary for 2009. He won “Commentariat of the Year 2009” at the Comment Awards, sponsored by Editorial Intelligence. He was joint winner of the 2009 award for columns in “giant newspapers” at the 15th annual Best in Business Journalism competition of The Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

His most recent book is The Shifts and The Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis (London and New York: Allen Lane, 2014).

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Andrew WyckoffAndrew W. Wyckoff is the Director of the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) where he oversees OECD’s work on innovation, business dynamics, science and technology, informa-tion and communication technology policy as well as the statistical work associated with each of these areas.

Mr. Wyckoff was previously Head of the Informa-tion, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) division at the OECD which supports the organisa-tion’s work on information society as well as consumer policy issues. Before heading ICCP, he was the head of STI’s Economic Analysis and Statistics Division which develops methodological guidelines, collects statis-tics and undertakes empirical analysis in support of science, technology and innovation policy analysis.

He has served on various advisory groups and panels which currently include co-chairing the US National Academies’ panel on Developing Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators for the Future, being a member of the Research Advisory Network for the Global Commission on Internet Governance and being a named to the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Global Science and Innovation Advisory Council.

His experience prior to the OECD includes being the Program Manger of the Information Technology and Commerce Program at the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and The Brookings Institution.

Mr. Wyckoff is a citizen of the United States, holds a BA in Economics from the University of Vermont, and a Master of Public Policy from the JFK School of Government, Harvard University.

Yuan YangYuan Yang is a Co-founder and current Lead Organiser of Rethinking Economics, an international network of economics students and citizens seeking to diversify and expand economics education. Yuan’s interest in non-neoclassical economics was piqued by her under-graduate tutors at Balliol College, Oxford, where she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She was trained in the community organising paradigm of politics while working on the Living Wage campaign at London Citizens. After graduating, Yuan worked for a year as Vice-President (Women) of the Oxford University Student Union, during the period of higher education funding reviews in the UK. Yuan then went to study an MSc. in Economics at the London School of Economics, and set up the Rethinking Economics network.

Yuan has spent a year at Beijing University, China, improving her Chinese in order to read Chinese economics. She currently works part-time for Rethinking Economics and for Adair Turner at the Institute of New Economic Thinking.

Yuan was born in Ningbo, China, and grew up in Yorkshire, UK; she now lives in London.


The Institute for New Economic Thinking is a New York City-based research and education nonprofit foundation designed to broaden and accelerate the development of a new field of economic thought that will lead to real-world solutions to the key challenges of the 21st century. Created in response to the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, the Institute is supporting this fundamental shift in economic ideas by funding academic research, building communities of new economic thinkers, and spreading the word about the need for change. The Institute was co-founded by George Soros, William Janeway, and Jim Balsillie.

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