Dr. Abt founded Abt Associates in 1965 — a company described by President Wendell Knox as "Clark's unique and original vision, a company with the feel of a university but one that also enables entrepreneurial efforts."
Dr. Abt has a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT. In addition to teaching at Boston University, he has taught at Harvard University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Massachusetts, and the State University of New York (Binghamton). Dr. Abt has written or edited numerous books.
Dr. Abt has been engaged in national defense research since 1957, when he conducted analyses of guided missile systems and electronic warfare equipment and operations for the U.S. Air Force, Army, and Navy. From 1963 through 1965, while at Raytheon and continuing into Abt Associates' first year, Dr. Abt designed and developed the first world model of international conflict — the TEMPER computer simulation model (Technological Economic Military Political Evaluation Routine) — for the Department of Defense/Joint Chiefs of Staff. TEMPER was the first dynamic interdisciplinary mathematical model of long-term global Cold War conflict. In 1961 Dr. Abt conducted the Air Force's first study of space-based ballistic missile defense, followed by several other studies on space-based anti-ICBM defense.
In September 2001, Dr. Abt began pro bono work on a study of the economic impacts of bioterrorist and nuclear terrorist attacks on seaport-based cargo transport systems, both under current inadequate conditions and under near-future augmented preventive defense conditions.
Charles (Chuck) Anderton earned a B.S. degree in economics from the State University of New York at Geneseo in 1979. He was employed as a designer of computer systems for Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) from 1979-1981. In 1986, Dr. Anderton earned his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University. Since then he has taught economics at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA). Dr. Anderton’s course offerings include principles of economics, intermediate microeconomics, international trade theory, mathematical economics, and economics of peace and conflict. His research interests include theoretical and empirical models of trade and conflict, arms race modeling, and theoretical models of appropriation possibilities. Dr. Anderton’s conflict research has appeared in various refereed journals and edited books including Conflict Management and Peace Science, Defence and Peace Economics, Economic Inquiry, J. of Conflict Resolution, J. of Economic Behavior & Organization, J. of Economic Education, J. of Peace Research, Review of Development Economics, and Handbook of Defense Economics (vols. I and II). He is married to Dr. Roxane A. Anderton (Clark University) and they have two sons.
Marcellus Andrews earned a BSBA from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania as well as an MA, MPhil and PhD in economics from Yale University. Andrews has been a full professor and chair of economics at Wellesley College and the first Lilian and Nathan Ackerman Professor of Equality and Justice in America at the School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York. Andrews comments on public affairs and economics in the pages of The Nation and on National Public Radio’s business affairs journal Marketplace. Dr. Andrews was formerly a senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation and is currently a Senior Reseach Associate with the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.
Andrews is the author of many academic articles published in specialist journals as well as The Political Economy of Hope and Fear: Capitalism and the Black Condition in America (NYU Press, 1999). His current book projects are Economic Policy and the Road to Social Justice (completed manuscript) and Re-imagining American Freedom (in progress).
Barbara R. Bergmann writes on economic and social policy, with recent works on Social Security, child care, poverty, women's place in the economy and the family, and the labor market problems of women and African Americans. She is Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Maryland and at American University in Washington, DC.
She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Bergmann served as a senior staff member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Kennedy Administration. Other government experience includes service as Senior Economic Adviser with the Agency for International Development, and as an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. She has served on advisory committees to the Congressional Budget Office and the Bureau of the Census. In the 1980s, she wrote a monthly column on economic affairs for the New York Times Sunday Business Section.
She has served as President of the Eastern Economic Association, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, the American Association of University Professors and the International Association for Feminist Economics, and is a Trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.
Professor Linda J. Bilmes teaches budgeting and public finance at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her current research topics include the cost of the Iraq war, federal workforce reform, and public pension liabilities.
She is the author "Soldiers Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan: The Long-term Costs of Providing Veterans Medical Care and Disability Benefits". In 2006, she co-authored with Joseph E. Stiglitz "Encore: Iraq Hemorrhage," Milken Institute Review (Fourth Quarter) and "The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning of the Conflict".
During the Clinton administration, she served as Chief Financial Officer and as Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Previously, she spent 10 years with the Boston Consulting Group, where she focused on industrial finance and public sector industrial policies. Earlier in her career, Bilmes worked as a political campaign consultant for candidates in the United States and Latin America. She writes and broadcasts regularly on financial and budget issues in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Atlanticand other publications. In 1998 she co-authored Gebt uns das Risiko Zuruck (Give Us Back the Risk), a best seller in Germany. Her recent book (The People Factor, Brookings, January 2007) is on federal civil service reform. Bilmes holds a BA and MBA from Harvard University.
Jurgen Brauer is Professor of Economics at Augusta State University’s James M. College of Business. He holds an economics undergraduate degree from the Free University of Berlin (1979), and a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame (1989). Prior to his present appointment, he taught at St. Mary's College and at the University of Notre Dame (1989-1991). Widely published, he has been a Peace Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace and is a member of the academic honor societies of Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi. He has lived on four continents.
A teacher of undergraduate and graduate students, columnist, public speaker, and commentator, Prof. Brauer carries on wideranging scholarly activity in the fields of peace and conflict research, military affairs, economic development, and economic education. Another interest is the field of bio/neuroeconomics, especially as it relates to conflict and conflict resolution. Prof. Brauer’s publications include Arms Trade and Economic Development (Routledge, 2004; with Paul Dunne), Arming the South (Palgrave, 2002; with Paul Dunne), The Economics of Regional Security (Harwood, 2000; with Keith Hartley), Economics of Conflict and Peace (Avebury, 1997; with William Gissy), and Economic Issues of Disarmament (Macmillan and New York University Press, 1993; with Manas Chatterji). He is now working on two monographs, War and Nature: The Environmental Impact of War and Colonizing Military History: On the Economics of War (with Hubert van Tuyll).
Prof. Brauer’s work has been published in Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Japanese and, in English, in an array of research journals such as the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Defence and Peace Economics, the European Journal of Political Economy, Conflict Management and Peace Science, the Journal of Economic Surveys, the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and Science. In addition, he has authored and co-authored many book chapters, among others to the Handbook of Defense Economics (vol. 2), the Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament, and to a Festschrift in honor of Nobel- Laureate Jan Tinbergen.
Prof. Brauer serves as a reviewer for a variety of scholarly journals, book publishers, and grant-making agencies. He is a member of the editorial boards of Defence and Peace Economics (England), Nação e Defesa (Portugal), and the International Journal of Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Studies (Spain). He also co-edits (with Prof. Keith Hartley) the Studies in Defence and Peace Economics monograph series with Routledge, London, and, with Prof. J. Paul Dunne he edit his own journal, The Economics of Peace and Security Journal (www.epsjournal.org.uk).
Among professional societies, Prof. Brauer is a member of the American Economic Association and a Fellow, Economists for Peace and Security where he served as vice-chair from 1998 to 2005. He is also a Fellow with the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, a member of the Research Initiative on Small Arms (RISA), and a member of the academic honor societies of Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi. Prof. Brauer has served as consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations, NATO, the U.S. National Defense University, and to the Chief Economist, Office of the Comptroller, City of New York. For a time, he also served as Senior Research Consultant to the Council on Economic Priorities in New York City. He held Visiting Professorships at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elisabeth, South Africa, in 2003, and at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, in 2005.
A native Berliner with permanent U.S. residency, Prof. Brauer lived and worked in the Kingdom of Swaziland for several years following his undergraduate work at the Free University of Berlin. He is married with three children and enjoys classical music, motorcycling, various sports, and the outdoors. He is also an underwater photographer and is a certified scuba diving instructor and CPR/First Aid instructor.
Tom Bundervoet is an assistant researcher/teacher at the Faculty of Economic, Political and Social Sciences of the University of Brussels, Belgium. His research interests include economic development; the dynamics of poverty and inequality; the political economy of violence and conflict; and civil war studies.
Published papers include: The Micro-Econometrics of the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Economic Development in Burundi; Livestock, Crop Choice and Conflict: Evidence from Burundi; Estimating Poverty in Burundi; and Civil War and Economic Sanctions: An Analysis of Anthropometric Outcomes in Burundi.
Since January 1991, Carl Conetta has been co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA). Prior to joining PDA, Mr. Conetta was a Research Fellow of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS) and also served for three years as editor of the IDDS journal Defense and Disarmament Alternatives, and the Arms Control Reporter.
As co-director of PDA, Mr. Conetta has authored and co-authored numerous reports on security issues and has published in Defense News, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, NOD and Conversion Journal, the Boston Review, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the American Sentinel, Security Dialogue, and Hawk, the journal of the Royal Air Force Staff College of the United Kingdom. Mr. Conetta has also made presentations at the Pentagon, US State Department, US House Armed Services Committee, Army War College, National Defense University, UNIDIR, and other governmental and nongovernmental institutions in the United States and abroad. He is a frequent expert commentator on radio and TV. He edits the Chinese Military Power and Revolution in Military Affairs Webpages.
Prior to 1986, Mr. Conetta was an editor for four years at South End Press and taught for two years at the University of Connecticut.
Lloyd J. Dumas is Professor of Political Economy, Economics and Public Policy School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas.
Trained both as an economist and an engineer, Dr. Dumas’ areas of expertise include: 1) National and international security; 2) Human fallibility, terrorism and technological disaster; 3) The environment and global climate change; and 4) Economic transition and development;
He has published six books and more than 100 articles in 11 languages in books and journals of economics, engineering, sociology, mental health, history, public policy, military studies and peace science, as well as in such newspapers/magazines as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Science magazine, Boston Globe, Technology Review, Defense News, and the Dallas Morning News. His latest work, “Seeds of Opportunity: Climate Change Challenges and Solutions” was published online by the Civil Society Institute (www.civilsocietyinstitute.org) in April 2006. He is currently writing his seventh book, Economics and International Security.
Dumas has been quoted as an authority in Time, Business Week, Financial Times, Science, Der Spiegel, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, and Washington Post, among many others. He has addressed the United Nations, testified at city, state and federal government hearings, and discussed the policy implications of his work on more than 250 TV and radio programs in the U.S., former Soviet Union, Russia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Pacific.
Dumas attended Columbia College (B.A., Mathematics, 1967), the School of Engineering and Applied Science (M.S., Industrial Engineering, 1968) and the Graduate Faculties (Ph.D., Economics, 1972), all divisions of Columbia University. He taught economics for three years at City University of New York, and engineering for six years at Columbia University, joining the faculty of Social Sciences at University of Texas at Dallas in 1979.
He is a Fellow of Economists for Peace and Security.
James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and is a Professor of Government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin.
Dr. Galbraith teaches economics and a variety of other subjects at the LBJ School. He holds degrees from Harvard (B.A. magna cum laude, 1974) and Yale (Ph.D. in economics, 1981). He studied economics as a Marshall Scholar at King's College, Cambridge in 1974-1975, and then served in several positions on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee. He was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in 1985. He directed the LBJ School's Ph.D. Program in Public Policy from 1995 to 1997. He directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group based at the LBJ School.
Galbraith has co-authored two textbooks, The Economic Problem with the late Robert L. Heilbroner and Macroeconomics with William Darity, Jr. He is the author of Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (1989) and Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998). His most recent book, Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View (Cambridge University Press, 2001), is coedited with Maureen Berner and features contributions from six LBJ School Ph.D. students.
Galbraith maintains several outside connections, including serving as a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute and as Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security. He writes a column called "Econoclast" for Mother Jones, and occasional commentary in many other publications, including The Texas Observer, The American Prospect, and The Nation. He is an occasional commentator for Public Radio International's Marketplace.
Nancy Gallagher is the Associate Director for Research at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). She co-directs the Advanced Methods of Cooperative Security Program, which seeks to address the security implications of globalization by developing more refined rules of behavior and more comprehensive transparency arrangements. Her recent research at CISSM has focused on ways to maximize benefits and minimize risks from the global spread of space capabilities, biotechnology, and nuclear energy.
Before coming to the University of Maryland, Dr. Gallagher was the Executive Director of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Task Force and worked with the Special Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State on recommendations to build bipartisan support for U.S. ratification. She has been an arms control specialist in the State Department, a Foster Fellow in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and a faculty member at Wesleyan University.
Dr. Gallagher is the author of The Politics of Verification (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), the editor of Arms Control: New Approaches to Theory and Policy (Frank Cass, 1998), and the co-author of Controlling Dangerous Pathogens: A Prototype Protective Oversight System (CISSM, 2007). She has also written articles on space security, nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, and other topics related to global security. She received her undergraduate degree in history from Carleton College and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
David Gold is Associate Professor in the International Affairs Program at the New School. He is a Fellow of Economists for Peace and Security, an Associate Editor of The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, and a member of the Security Policy Working Group. He is a co-founder and co-chair of the New School Study Group on the Economics of Security and, with Sean Costigan, has edited Terrornomics, which will be released by Ashgate Publishers on May 8, 2007.
Prior to joining the New School faculty, Professor Gold spent fifteen years in the United Nations Secretariat, first in the Centre on Transnational Corporations and then in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Other appointments include teaching and research positions at Columbia University, the University of California, and Rutgers University. At present, Professor Gold is conducting research on economic aspects of terrorism and counter terrorism, the globalization of military production, and the political and economic determinants of military spending in the United States since World War II. His paper “Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of the US War on Terror” was presented at the 2007 meeting of the Eastern Economic Association at a session organized by EPS, and is available as International Affairs Working Paper 2007-03 (www.gpia.info/publications/) and on the EPS web site (www.epsusa.org/events/eea2007papers/gold.pdf).
Dr. Eban Goodstein is Professor of Economics at Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon. Goodstein is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, (John Wiley and Sons: 2007) now in its fifth edition; The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment (Island Press: 1999); and Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming (University of Vermont Press: 2007).
Goodstein’s current research focuses on the economics of global climate change, a subject on which he has spoken widely. Articles by Goodstein have appeared in, among other outlets: The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Management. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, Chemical and Engineering News, The Economist, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Goodstein received his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He serves on the editorial board of Environment, Workplace and Employment, is on the Steering Committee of the Center for the Applied Study of Economics & the Environment, and is a Member Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform. Currently, Goodstein is directing a national educational initiative on global warming, Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America (www.focusthenation.org).
William Hartung is Director of the ArmsTrade Research Center and a President's Fellow at the World Policy Institute of the New School University. He is an i nternationally recognized expert on the issues of the arms trade and the economics of military spending and American foreign policy.
He has served as the Director of the Project on the Control of the International Arms Trade at the World Policy Institute; Research associate and project director at the New York-based Council on Economic Priorities; speech writer and policy analyst for New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams. He has appeared as a guest on national television and radio programs including CBS 60 Minutes, NBC Nightly News, the MacNeill/Lehrer Report, CNN's Inside Business and National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation.
Hartung is the author or co-author of numerous books and studies, including The Changing Dynamics of U.S. Defense Policy and Budgeting in the Post-Cold War Era (co-author; forthcoming, Greenwood Press, 1999); Welfare for Weapons Dealers 1998: The Hidden Costs of NATO Expansion (World Policy Institute, 1998); U.S. Weapons at War (World Policy Institute, 1995); And Weapons for All (1994). His articles on the arms trade and the economics of defense spending have appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, the Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the World Policy Journal and numerous other publications.
Mr. Hartung is a member of the International Studies Association; a recipient of a research and writing grant from the Program on International Peace and Cooperation of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and a member of the Security Policy Working Group. He holds a B.A. in philosophy, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Columbia University.
Dr. Henry Hertzfeld is a Senior Research Scientist at the Space Policy Institute of the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He holds both a doctorate in economics and a law degree. Before joining the Institute, Dr. Hertzfeld was Senior Economist at NASA from 1976-1983. He then established his own consulting business specializing in financial, economic, and legal aspects of space and science and technology activities. He has also served as a Senior Policy Analyst at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Hertzfeld is currently a Professorial Lecturer of Economics at George Washington.
For a list of publications and conference presentations, please visit: http://www.gwu.edu/~spi/biohertzfeld.html
Michael D. Intriligator is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is also Professor of Political Science, Professor of Policy Studies in the School of Public Affairs, and Co-Director of the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica.
Intriligator received his undergraduate S.B. degree in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959; his M.A. degree at Yale University in 1960, where he was the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; and his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963.
Intriligator is the author of more than 200 journal articles and other publications in the areas of economic theory and mathematical economics, econometrics, health economics, reform of the Russian economy, and strategy and arms control, his principal research fields. Dr. Intriligator is Vice Chair and a member of the Board of Directors of Economists for Peace and Security and was President of the Peace Science Society (International) in 1993. He was elected as a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1999 and inducted in 2000, and he was elected an AAAS Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001. He was elected President of the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) in 2006.
Richard Kaufman is a member of the board of directors and a vice chair of Economists for Peace and Security, and Director of Bethesda Research Institute, which he founded. He was formerly a staff economist and general counsel of the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress. At the Joint Economic Committee he directed numerous investigations of the Pentagon and its spending and contracting practices. As he would point out, that was at a time when there was more rigorous and relevant congressional oversight than we have had over the past 6 years, and when oversight meant to look hard, not to hardly look.
Alan J. Kuperman is Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. He is author of one book, The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings, 2001), and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (Routledge, 2006). His articles have appeared in journals and newspapers including Foreign Affairs, Political Science Quarterly, Security Studies, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He also has chapters in books including Bosnian Security After Dayton: New Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2006), The Media and the Rwanda Genocide (London: Pluto Press, 2006) Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American Foreign Policy (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2005), Genocide Perspectives, Volume III (Brandl and Schlesinger, 2005), American Foreign Policy: Cases and Choices (Foreign Affairs Books, 2003), Yugoslavia Unraveled: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Intervention (Lexington, 2003), Nuclear Power & the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (Brassey’s, 2002), and The New American Interventionism: Successes and Failures (Columbia University Press, 1999).
He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT (2002) and has received fellowships from Harvard University, MIT, the University of Southern California, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Brookings Institution, and the Institute for the Study of World Politics. Prior to his academic career, he worked as legislative director to Congressman Charles Schumer and legislative assistant to Speaker of the House Tom Foley.
Michael Lind is the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author, with Ted Halstead, of The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics (Doubleday, 2001). He is also the author of Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics (New America Books/Basic, 2003) and What Lincoln Believed (Doubleday, 2005). Mr. Lind has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and The New Republic. From 1991 to 1994, he was executive editor of The National Interest. He has also been a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School. Mr. Lind has written for The Atlantic Monthly, Prospect (U.K.), The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, and other leading publications, and has appeared on C-SPAN, National Public Radio, CNN’s Crossfire, and PBS’s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Mr. Lind’s first three books of political journalism and history, The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution (Free Press, 1995), Up From Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong for America (Free Press, 1996), and Vietnam: The Necessary War (Free Press, 1999) were all selected as New York Times Notable Books. He has also published several volumes of fiction and poetry, including The Alamo (Houghton Mifflin, 1997), which the Los Angeles Times named as one of the Best Books of the year, and a prize-winning children’s book, Bluebonnet Girl (Henry Holt, 2004). His ground-breaking study of American grand strategy, The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life was published by Oxford University Press in October 2006.
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at The Cooper Union, and director of policy research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times. He is the author of several books, including Taking America (Bantam), and The End of Affluence (Random House), both of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Taking America was also chosen by Business Week as one of the ten best books of the year. His most recent book is Why Economies Grow (Basic Books). He has served as a policy consultant for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and other U.S. legislators. He has written for many other publications, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Institutional Investor, The Nation, American Prospect, The Boston Globe, Newsday, and the business, op-ed, and magazine sections of The New York Times. He has appeared on Charlie Rose, The Lehrer News Hour, Now With Bill Moyers, Frontline,, CNN, CNBC, CBS, and NPR. He was formerly finance editor of Business Week Magazine and an NBC News reporter and commentator. His awards include an Emmy and a Page One Award. He was educated at New York University and Harvard University, and was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard.
He is currently at work on a biographical history of the American economy, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, and a brief work on the purposes of government, to be published by Princeton University Press.
Warren B. Mosler is the founder of AVM, L.P. a broker/dealer that provides advanced financial services to large institutional accounts; founder and principal of Illinois Income Investors (III); chairman and majority shareholder of Consulier Engineering, which produces race cars, including the MT900s is currently underway at Breckland Engineering, UK. (www.mt900.com); director and major shareholder of the Enterprise National Bank which donates 25% of its profits to the American Cancer Society; co-Founder and Distinguished Research Associate of The Center for Full Employment And Price Stability at the University of Missouri in Kansas City; Senior Associate Fellow, Cambridge Center for Economic and Public Policy, Downing College, Cambridge, UK; and Associate Fellow, University of Newcastle, Australia.
In 2006, he ran for Congress, hoping to represent the US Virgin Islands.
Wim Naude is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER) of the United Nations University in Helsinki, Finland. Originally from South Africa, his current research interests include: new economic geography, spatial inequality and growth in developing countries; local and regional economic development; foreign direct investment and investment promotion agencies; small business and entrepreneurship; and evolutionary psychology and development.
Dr. Naude holds an M.Sc in Quantitative Development Economics from the University of Warwick, UK, and a Ph.D in Economics from Potchefstroom University. He has served as lecturer and research officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, UK; visiting Professor, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Senior Associate Member, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, UK; and as Professor and Director of the WorkWell Research Unit, Faculty of Economic & Management Sciences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa.
In addition, he has served as a member of the Statistics Council of South Africa since 2005 (appointed by the Minister of Finance, Republic of South Africa); as a member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Premier of the North-West province of South Africa since 2005; and as a councillor on the Southern District Municipality of South Africa from 2000/2001 – 2006. He has been on the Boards of Invest North West, the official investment promotion agency of the North-West Province of South Africa, 2000 – 2006; the International Council for Small Business, 2001 -2003; board Member and Founding Chairman of Afriforte (Pty) Ltd, 2005 - 2006 (www.afriforte.co.za). He is a member of the editorial boards of : South African Journal of Economics, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences; Guest editor of the first edition of Journal of Development Perspectives. And has received grants from South African National Research Foundation; South African – Netherlands Programme on Development (SANPAD); and the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany.
Eleanor Nillensen holds an Msc in Agricultural and Environmental Economics from Wageningen University. She did course work for her Masters at the School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia and was a Socrates exchange student at the Agricultural University of Norway. She is working on her PhD at the Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University. She has served as a lecturer and researcher in environmental economics, and done field work in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Queensland Australia and in the Machakos district of Kenya.
From 2002 to 2004, Ms. Nillesen served as an environmental economist at Witteveen+Bos Consulting Engineers, Rotterdam. She has presented papers at the International Conference on the Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural Resource Use; the 10th Conference of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR); and the 26th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE). She is a member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and the International Federation of University Women.
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou’s areas of research include financial structure reform, community development banking, fiscal and monetary policy, employment policy, and distribution of income, wealth and well-being. He heads the Levy Institute’s macro-modeling team studying and simulating the U.S. and world economies. In addition, he has authored and co-authored studies relating to Federal Reserve policy, fiscal policy, employment growth and social security reform.
Papadimitriou is president of the Levy Institute and executive vice president and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard College. He has testified on a number of occasions in hearings of Senate and House of Representatives Committees of the U.S. Congress, was vice-chairman of the Trade Deficit Review Commission of the U.S. Congress (2000-2001) and a member of the Competitiveness Policy Council’s Subcouncil on Capital Allocation. He was a Distinguished Scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (PRC) in fall 2002. Papadimitriou has edited and contributed to eight books published by Macmillan and Edward Elgar and is a member of the editorial board of Challenge. He is a graduate of Columbia University and received a Ph.D. in economics from New School for Social Research.
Solomon W. Polachek is Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University) where he has taught since 1983. He holds appointments in the Economics and Political Science Departments, and from 1996-2000 he served as Dean of the Arts and Sciences College. In 2005 he received the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. His Ph.D. is from Columbia University where he wrote his dissertation Work Experience and the Difference Between Male and Female Wages. Polachek has had post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago, Stanford, and Princeton. He coauthored The Economics of Earnings with Stan Siebert, published over 100 articles and book chapters, and presented seminars and workshops at over 50 universities. In addition, he visited Bar-Ilan University, Catholic University of Leuven, Erasmus University, Tel Aviv University, and the Tinbergen Institute for extended stays. Polachek is editor of Research in Labor Economics, on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. His research spans two main areas. First is the application of life-cycle models to understanding worker well-being. Second is the integration of economics and political science to explain political conflict and cooperation among nations. This latter research has been widely received in the political science field leading to over 20 publications and conference presentations, as well as to being chosen to serve on the editorial boards of Conflict Management and Peace Science (1989- ), the International Studies Quarterly (1989-1995) and Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (1993- ). Polachek was elected President of the Peace Science Society (International) serving from 1999-2000. Although primarily devoted to applying economics tools to international relations, this research has implications regarding industrial relations, particularly union wage negotiations and strike activity.
K. Maeve Powlick graduated from Wells College in 2002 and is a student in the Economics PhD progam at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, studying with James K. Boyce. She is a membe of the faculty at Skidmore College, teaching Economics and interdisciplinary classes with Womens Studies and Mathematics. Her main areas of interest are the political economy of violent conflict, focusing on intrastate wars, and community-based economic development in situations of long-term poverty and violence. She is writing her dissertation about the role of young people in economic development in communities of multigenerational poverty in New York State, using quantitative and original qualitative research in urban and rural communities.
Dr. Philip Verwimp obtained his PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Leuven in January 2003 with a dissertation on the political economy of development and genocide in Rwanda. He specialises in the economic causes and consequences of conflict at the micro-level. Philip has done quantitative work on the death toll of the genocide and on the demography of post-genocide Rwanda. He currently works on poverty and health in conflict-affected countries. Philip was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at Yale University and worked for the World Bank as a Poverty Economist. He received the Jacques Rozenberg Award from the Auschwitz Foundation for his dissertation. Philip taught Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and at the Universities of Antwerp, Leuven and Utrecht. He is currently affiliated with ECARES at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
His work has been published in Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution and the European Journal of Political Economy among others. In 2006 he received the Award for the Best Paper published in the Journal of Peace Research. Philip is the president of the Dutch/Flemish Chapter of Economists for Peace and Security and he co-directs the Households in Conflict Network (www.hicn.org).
Winslow T. Wheeler is the Director of the Straus Military Reform Project of the Center for Defense Information in Washington, DC.
From 1971 to 2002, he worked on national security issues for members of the U.S. Senate and for the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). In the Senate, Wheeler worked for Jacob K. Javits (R. NY), Nancy L. Kassebaum (R, KS), David Pryor (D, AR), and Pete V. Domenici (R, NM). He was the first, and according to Senate records the last, Senate staffer to work simultaneously on the personal staffs of a Republican and a Democrat (Pryor and Kassebaum).
In the Senate staff, Wheeler was heavily involved in legislating the War Powers Act, Pentagon reform legislation, and oversight of the defense budget and weapons programs.
At GAO, he directed comprehensive studies on the 1991 Gulf War air campaign, the US strategic nuclear triad, and Pentagon weapons testing. Each of these studies found prevailing conventional wisdom about weapons to be misinformed.
In 2002 when he worked as the Senior Analyst for National Defense for the Republican staff of the Senate Budget Committee, Wheeler authored an essay, under the pseudonym "Spartacus," addressing Congress' reaction to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks ("Mr. Smith Is Dead: No One Stands in the Way as Congress Lards Post-September 11 Defense Bills with Pork"). When senators complained about Wheeler's criticisms, he resigned his position.
Wheeler joined the Center for Defense Information in 2002. There, he wrote “The Wastrels of Defense” (US Naval Institute Press, 2004), which explores Congress’ involvement in US national security issues and has been the subject of interviews or reviews on “60 Minutes,” C-SPAN’s “Book Notes,” and various newspapers and radio stations.
He has also authored commentaries on Congress and national security, which have appeared in the Washington Post, Proceedings of the Naval Institute, Government Executive, Defense Week, Defense News, Barron’s, Army Times, UPI, Mother Jones, Nieman Watchdog, CounterPunch, Politico and elsewhere.
He lives with his wife, Judy, and son, Matthew, in Maryland. Another son, Winslow B., lives in Florida with his wife and their three sons.
In his previous research positions he was Deputy Director of the Institute for Development and Peace at the University of Duisburg, Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg.
The government of North-Rhein Westphalia, Germany awarded professorship to Herbert Wulf in 2002. He studied at the Universities of Cologne (economics), Mannheim and Hamburg (sociology) and wrote his dissertation at the Free University of Berlin in international relations. He taught at several Universities in Germany, Scandinavia and the United States. Prior to his work in research, he was Director of the German Volunteer Service in India. In February 2007 the Center for Conflict Studies of the Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany awarded the Peter-Becker price for peace and conflict research Herbert Wulf.
His research fields include governance, with UN peacekeeping and the future of the monopoly of violence, internationalization and privatization of conflict and the privatization of the armed forces, arms production, arms trade, arms industry conversion and arms control and disarmament, especially within the UN system. A particular regional interest relates to India (in development cooperation theory) and North Korea (the nuclear ambitions).
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