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William Milberg

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William Milberg is Associate Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and Research Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic and Policy Analysis.  His research focuses on:

  • Labor market effects of international trade and investment
  • Global value chains and economic development
  • The methodology of economics
  • The history of economic thought

He has worked as a consultant to the UNDP, UNCTAD, and ILO. He is the co-author (with Robert Heilbroner) of The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought and The Making of Economic Society and editor of Labor and the Globalization of Production: Causes and Consequences of Industrial Upgrading and The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Essays in Memory of Alfred Eichner.

He received his Ph.D. in economics from Rutgers University in 1987.