Economics Publications: 2015
Recent publications from faculty in the Department of Economics:
Paulo dos Santos
Paulo dos Santos, Assistant Professor of Economics, recently published the article “Not ‘wage-led’ versus ‘profit-led’, but investment-led versus consumption-led growth” (Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2015).
Other publications include “A Note on Credit Allocation, Income Distribution, and the Circuit of Capital” (Metroeconomica, 2014) and “A Cause for Policy Concern: The Expansion of Household Credit in Middle-Income Economies” (International Review of Applied Economics, 2013).
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Bio | dos Santos is Assistant Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. He received his PhD in economics from University of London. dos Santos’ research involves Classical Political Economy; Banking and Monetary Theory; and the role of Finance in Economic Development. Much of his current work inquires into the distinctive social and macroeconomic content of contemporary financial practices and relations. He is interested in methodological issues in economic analysis, including the appropriate use and interpretation of mathematical formalisms.
Willi Semmler
Willi Semmler, Henry Arnhold Professor of Economics, recently published The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming (Oxford University Press, 2015). This book, co-authored with NSSR Economics alumnus Lucas Bernard, “analyzes the economic impact of global warming and how responses to it – including preventative measures, adaptation policies and international agreements – affect growth, sustainability and society,” according to a post on the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis blog.
Other publications include Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics, Volume 2: Integrated Approaches (Routledge, 2012) and Asset Prices, Booms and Recessions: Financial Economics from a Dynamic Perspective (Springer Publishing, 2011).
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Bio | Semmler is Henry Arnhold Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. He received his PhD from the Free University of Berlin. His research and teaching interests are: Empirical Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics of the US and EU, Financial Markets, Economics of Climate Change, Business Cycles, and Macro Dynamics.
Mark Setterfield
Mark Setterfield, Professor of Economics, recently published “Firm performance, macroeconomic conditions, and ‘animal spirits’ in a Post Keynesian model of aggregate fluctuations” (Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2015) and “Aggregate consumption and debt accumulation: an empirical examination of US household behavior” (Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2015).
Other publications include the book After the Great Recession: The Struggle for Economic Recovery and Growth (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
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Bio | Setterfield is Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. He received his PhD from Dalhousie University. He is an Associate Member of the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy at Cambridge University, UK, a Senior Research Associate at the International Economic Policy Institute, Laurentian University, Canada, and a Member of the Centre d’Économie de l’Université Paris Nord (CEPN) at l’Université de Paris XIII (France).
Selections of NSSR publications from 2015:
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