Contact Info

Barnard College
Economics Department
005 Lehman Hall
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Marcellus Andrews

Professor of Economics, Columbia University

Marcellus Andrews teaches economics at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York. Andrews earned a B.S. & B.A. from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania as well as an MA, MPhil and PhD in economics from Yale University. Andrews comments on public affairs and economics in the pages of The Nation and on National Public Radio’s business affairs journal Marketplace. His current book projects include Economic Policy and the Road to Social Justice (completed manuscript), Re-imagining American Freedom (in progress) and Striver’s Manifesto: On the Economics and Ethics of Black Achievement (in progress).

Issues: Anti-Poverty programs, Business, Corporate Incentives, Economic Mobility, Entrepreneurialism, Family/Medical leave, Healthcare, Jobs, Labor Force, Living Wage, Medicare/Medicaid, Middle Class, Multi-national corporations, OSHA, Retirement, Small Business, Social Investment, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Unions, US Infrastructure, Wealth Creation, Welfare, Workforce Development

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, Yale University
M.Phil., Economics, Yale University
M.A., Economics, Yale University
B.S. & B.A., Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania

Books:

The Political Economy of Hope and Fear: Capitalism and the Black Condition in America, NYU Press, 2001.