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[Gabriel Zucman]
[Gabriel Zucman]
Gabriel Zucman is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at UC Berkeley, and director of the EU Tax Observatory. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and taxation of global wealth and has renewed the analysis of the macroeconomic and distributional implications of globalization. He is the author of articles published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, and of two books. His book The Hidden Wealth of Nations, he has developed methods to measure the wealth held in tax havens. The Triumph of Injustice, written with Emmanuel Saez, presents an analysis of the progressivity of the US tax system taking into account all taxes at all levels of government since the creation of the income tax in 1913.
[David Grewal]
[David Grewal]
David Grewal is Professor of Law at UC Berkeley of Law. His research interests include legal and political theory; intellectual history, particularly the history of economic thought; global economic governance and international trade law; intellectual property law and biotechnology; and law and economics. His first book, Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization, was published by Yale University Press in 2008. His secondbook, The Invention of the Economy, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. He has published on legal topics in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and several other law reviews, and on a variety of questions in political theory and intellectual history in several peer-reviewed journals. His public writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, and elsewhere. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the BioBricks Foundation and a co-founder of the Law and Political Economy Blog.
[Paul Pierson]
[Paul Pierson]
Paul Pierson is the John Gross Professor and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley. He serves as Director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of American Democracy, and as Co-Director of the multi-university Consortium on American Political Economy. His research, which focuses on the American political economy and public policy, has been awarded several major prizes from the American Political Science Association. He is the author or co-author of six books, including the best-selling Winner Take All Politics, co-authored by Jacob Hacker. Pierson is a regular commentator on public affairs, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and Foreign Affairs. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Pierson is a former Guggenheim Fellow, Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, and Russell Sage Foundation Fellow. He also served as co-Director of the Successful Societies Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
[Suresh Naidu]
[Suresh Naidu]
Suresh Naidu is a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University as well as a fellow at Roosevelt Institute, external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and a research fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research. His primary research areas are in labor markets and political economy. He has been one of the leading economists interested in exploring how an interdisciplinary political economy might evolve. His work has appeared in many journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Harvard Law Review, Journal of Economic History, and the Journal of Human Resources.
[Caitlin Rosenthal]
[Caitlin Rosenthal]
Caitlin Rosenthal is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California. She is a historian of 18th and 19th century U.S. history with a research focus on the development of management practices, especially those based on data analysis. Her work blends qualitative and quantitative methods and to combine insights from business history, economic history, and labor history. Her first book, Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management (Harvard University Press, 2018) won the Simpkins Award of the Southern Historical Association as well as the first book prize of the Economic History Society. It was featured as a "Five Books" best book in economics for 2018 and honored by the San Francisco Public Library Laureates. The book explores the development of business practices on slave plantations and uses this history to understand the relationship between violence and innovation, themes that led to the book's inclusion in the New York Time's 1619 Project.
[Leslie Salzinger]
[Leslie Salzinger]
Leslie Salzinger is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies. She got her PhD in Sociology at UC Berkeley and previously taught in the sociology departments at the University of Chicago and and Boston College. She is an ethnographer, focused on gender, feminist theory, economic sociology, and neoliberalism. Much of her research has focused on Latin America. Her primary theoretical interests lie in the cultural constitution of economic processes, and in the creation of subjectivities within political economies. Her award-winning first book, Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories, analyzed the gendered dimensions of transnational production. Her current work in progress, Model Markets: Peso Dollar Exchange as a Site of Neoliberal Incorporation, analyzes peso/dollar exchange markets as crucial gendered and raced sites for Mexico's shift from "developing nation" to "emerging market." Her work on the role of masculinity in the evolution of contemporary global capitalism across sites from both projects is encapsulated in the 2016 essay "Re-Marking Men: Masculinity as a Terrain of the Neoliberal Economy." In addition to the Sociology Department, Professor Salzinger is affiliated with Berkeley's Program in Critical Theory.
[John Robinson III]
[John Robinson III]
John Robinson III is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His work studies the racial underpinnings of money and markets, with emphasis on housing and credit policies. His award-winning work examines how the rise of finance is reshaping place-based inequalities within and around American cities. His current book project explores the ongoing rise of the affordable housing industry in the US and its intersections with racial and economic inequality. A secondary project investigates the politics of race, punishment and municipal debt in suburban areas. His work appears or is forthcoming in leading journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Socio-Economic Review, Politics and Society, Law and Social Inquiry, Journal of Urban Affairs, and Housing Policy Debate, and has earned recognition from the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Ford Foundation, the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, and the Paris Institute for Political Studies.
[Daniel Aldana Cohen]
[Daniel Aldana Cohen]
Daniel Aldana Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Director of Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative. He is a founding Co-Director of the Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank. His research concerns the intersection of the climate emergency, housing, political economy, social movements, and inequalities of race and class in the United States and Brazil. He is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green Deal (Verso 2019). He is currently completing a book project called Street Fight: Climate Change and Inequality in the 21st Century City, under contract with Princeton University Press. Cohen's research and writing have appeared in Nature; Environmental Politics; Public Culture; The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action; NACLA Report on the Americas; The Century Foundation; The Guardian; Time; The Nation; Jacobin; Dissent; and elsewhere.
[Neil Fligstein]
[Neil Fligstein]
Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Director of the Center for Culture, Organization, and Politics. He is Co-Chair with Steve Vogel of the Network for a New Political Economy. His main research interests lie in the field of economic sociology, political economy, and organizational theory. He has made research contributions to the fields of economic sociology, organizational theory, political sociology, and social stratification. He is the author of numerous articles and eight books including The Transformation of Corporate Control (Harvard University Press, 1993), The Architecture of Markets (Princeton University Press, 2001), Euroclash (Oxford University Press, 2008), A Theory of Fields (with Doug McAdam, Oxford University Press, 2012) and most recently The Banks Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2021)
[Steven Vogel]
[Steven Vogel]
Steven K. Vogel is Chair of the Political Economy Program, the Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies, and a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in the political economy of the advanced industrialized nations, especially Japan. His most recent book, entitled Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work (Oxford, 2018), argues that markets do not arise spontaneously but are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all by governments. Vogel is also the author of Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism (Cornell, 2006) and co-editor (with Naazneen Barma) of The Political Economy Reader: Contending Perspectives and Contemporary Debates (Routledge, 2022). His first book, Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries (Cornell, 1996), won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.
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