Professor
Economics
Department Chair
Economics
Office
Maria Sanford Hall
30405
Education
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Kalamazoo College
Areas of Expertise
Political Economy, Capitalist Systems, Stratification Economics, and Urban Economics.
Publications, Research & Presentations
Recent Publications
2024. Understanding the Great Recession: A pluralist approach to US capitalism in the 21st century. New York, NY: Routledge.
2022. Re-examining the effect of job sprawl on the Black-White housing consumption gap: Evidence following the Great Recession. The Review of Black Political Economy, 49 (3), 281 – 308. doi: 10.1177/00346446211044147
2020 (with A. Campbell et al.). The principles of radical political economics. American Review of Political Economy, 14(1).
2019 (with A. Campbell et al.). The unreal basis of neoclassical economics. American Review of Political Economy, 13(1).
Recent Presentations
“Financial reform following the financial crisis: A survey of Dodd-Frank’s studies,” presented at the Academy of Economics and Finance Annual Meeting, February 2024.
“The failures of the recovery from the Great Recession,” presented at Hofstra University’s Conference on the Barack Obama Presidency: Hope and Change, April 2023.
“Financial reform following the financial crisis: A survey of Dodd-Frank’s studies,” presented at the Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, February 2023.
“Teaching fiscal policy from a pluralist perspective: Lessons for the 2009-2020 recovery,” presented at the Western Social Science Association Annual Conference, March 2022.
Awards & Grants
“Financial reform following the financial crisis: A survey of Dodd-Frank’s studies,” CSU – AAUP University Faculty Research Grant, Central Connecticut State University, 2023 – 2024.
Memberships & Affiliations
American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
American Economic Association (AEA)
Association for Social Economics (ASE)
National Economic Association (NEA)
Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE)
Courses Taught
Principles of Macroeconomics (ECON 200), Principles of Microeconomics (ECON 201), Political Economy (ECON 308), The Great Recession (ECON 408), and Marxian Economics (ECON 467).