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William Black

William Black

Bill Black is an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the Universityof Missouri– Kansas City. He is a white-collar criminologist. His regulatory career is profiled in Chapter 2 of Professor Riccucci’s book Unsung Heroes (Georgetown U. Press: 1995), Chapter 4 (“The Consummate Professional: Creating Leadership”) of Professor Bowman, et al’s book The Professional Edge ...

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Jim Chanos

Jim Chanos

Jim Chanos is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kynikos Associates. As the largest exclusive short selling investment firm, Kynikos provides investment management services for domestic and offshore clients. Mr. Chanos opened Kynikos Associates in 1985 to implement investment strategies he had uncovered while beginning his Wall Street career as a financial analyst with Paine ...

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Rashad Robinson

Rashad Robinson

Rashad Robinson – For over a decade, he has helped to mobilize communities across the country to create more inclusive cultural and political institutions. Robinson serves as Executive Director of Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online civil rights organization. Under Robinson’s leadership, the organization has been at the forefront on issues ranging from fighting ...

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Dean Baker

Dean Baker

Dean Baker is frequently cited in economics reporting in major media outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, and National Public Radio. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian Unlimited (UK), the Huffington Post, TruthOut, and his blog, Beat the Press, features commentary on economic reporting. His analyses have appeared in ...

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James Crotty

James Crotty

Professor Crotty is a macro economist with broad interests whose research in theory and policy attempts to integrate the complementary analytical strengths of the Marxian and Keynesian traditions. His writings have appeared in such diverse journals as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Review of Radical ...

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Celinda Lake

Celinda Lake

Celinda Lake is one of the Democratic Party’s leading political strategists, serving as tactician and senior advisor to the national party committees, dozens of Democratic incumbents, and challengers at all levels of the electoral process. Celinda and her firm are known for cutting-edge research on issues including the economy, health care, the environment and education, ...

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David Kennedy

David Kennedy

David Kennedy is Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. He teaches international law, international economic policy, legal theory, law and development and European law. He joined the Harvard Law faculty in 1981 and holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School and ...

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Jacob S. Hacker

Jacob S. Hacker

Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D., is the Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is Vice President of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a former Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. An expert on the politics of U.S. ...

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Tamara Draut

Tamara Draut

As Vice President of Policy and Programs, Tamara Draut oversees the development and strategic direction of the organization’s core programs and communications, working closely with the President to expand Demos’ impact, influence and capacity. Previously, she served for seven years as the Director of the Economic Opportunity Program at Demos. She is the author of Strapped: ...

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Richard B. Freeman

Richard B. Freeman

Richard Freeman is one of the world’s leading labor economists. The Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Faculty co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, Dr. Freeman. Freeman is also Senior Research Fellow on Labour Markets at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. Freeman ...

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Frank Partnoy

Frank Partnoy

Professor Frank Partnoy is the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance and the Director of the Center on Corporate and Securities Law at the University of San Diego. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the complexities of modern finance and financial market regulation. He worked as a derivatives structurer at ...

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Diane Coyle

Diane Coyle

Economist and author Diane Coyle runs the consultancy Enlightenment Economics. She is Vice Chair of the BBC Trust. She is a member of the Migration Advisory Committee, was a member of the Browne Review of higher education funding, and was on the Competition Commission for eight years. Diane is a visiting professor at the University ...

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Algernon Austin

Algernon Austin

Algernon Austin is a sociologist of racial relations. At the Economic Policy Institute, he works to advance policies that enable people of color to participate fully in the American economy and benefit equally from gains in prosperity. Austin oversees reports and policy analyses on the economic condition of America’s people of color. Austin is the ...

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Teresa Ghilarducci

Teresa Ghilarducci

Teresa Ghilarducci is a labor economist and nationally recognized expert in retirement security. Ghilarducci joined The New School in 2008 after 25 years as a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and 10 years as director of the school’s Higgins Labor Research Center. As an author, her most recent book – When ...

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Nancy Folbre

Nancy Folbre

Nancy Folbre’s work explores the interface between economics and feminist theory, focusing on non-market work and the evolution of social institutions governing public support for childrearing. She was a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation (2004-05), was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius” Fellowship and won the Leontief Prize of the Global Development and Environment ...

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Pyromaniacs on the Potomac: The Problem With Obama’s Second Term

Huff Po
Robert Reich
May 16, 2013

Six months into a second term and the Obama White House is on the defensive and floundering: Benghazi, the IRS’s invest

What the IRS should be scrutinizing

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Robert Kuttner

The tempest about the Tea Parties and the Internal Revenue Service is a gift for the Republican Party — and one that obsc

The Myth of a Perfect Orderly Liquidation Authority for Big Banks

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Simon Johnson

On Tuesday, with some fanfare, the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington rolled out a report, “Too Big to Fail: The Path t

Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street

Huff Po
Dean Baker
May 15, 2013

As we move toward the fifth anniversary of the great financial crisis of 2008, people should be outraged that cutting Social

The Real Problem at the IRS

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Melanie Sloan

Everyone can agree it is unacceptable for the IRS to target particular organizations based on political ideology.

U.S. Supreme Court Examines Voting Rights in Two Cases

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Myrna Perez

‘SHELBY COUNTY, ALA. V. HOLDER’
Shelby County is a largely white suburb of Birmingham, Ala.

Germany’s Perverse Devotion to Austerity

Bloomberg
Robert Kuttner
May 14, 2013

ext summer will mark the 100th anniversary of the chain of diplomatic missteps that led to World War I.

“Cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophecy”

Salon
Robert Reich

Many of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place.

Gattopardo economics

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Thomas Palley

Gattopardo constitutes change that keeps things the same.

The Partial Faith and Dubious Credit Act

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Alan S. Blinder
May 13, 2013

Have you heard about HR 807, the “Full Faith and Credit Act,” passed last Thursday by the House of Representative