I am Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. I am also a Senior Fellow at the Groundwork Collaborative. I have a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. My book Against Money, with Arjun Jayadev, will be released by University of Chicago Press on May 7,  2026.

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

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

My research and teaching is primarily in macroeconomics. I also write about finance, economic history, and international finance and trade.

Papers and articles.

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Current cv (October 2024)

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

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