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About Us / Staff
Director, Program on Development, Peacebuilding, and the Environment and Professor of Economics
James K. Boyce received his Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University. He is the author of Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality After Civil Wars (Oxford University Press 2002), The Political Economy of the Environment (Edward Elgar 2002), The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era (Macmillan 1993), and Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Institutional Constraints to Technological Change (Oxford University Press 1987), and co-author of A Quiet Violence: View From a Bangladesh Village (with Betsy Hartmann, Zed Press 1983). He is the co-editor of Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership (with Barry Shelley, Island Press 2003) and editor of Economic Policy for Building Peace: The Lessons of El Salvador (Lynne Rienner 1996). Professor Boyce's current work focuses on strategies for combining poverty reduction with environmental protection, and on the relationship between economic policies and issues of war and peace.
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Curriculum vitae
Contact: James K. Boyce
Gordon Hall
418 N. Pleasant St., Suite A
Amherst, MA 01002
413-577-0816
Graduate courses:
Economics 765: Economic Development
Economics 797E: The Political Economy of the Environment
Co-director and Professor of Economics
Gerald Epstein received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. He has published widely on a variety of progressive economic policy issues, especially in the areas of central banking and international finance, and is the editor or co-editor of six volumes, including Financialization and the World Economy (Edward Elgar Press 2004); Capital Flight and Capital Controls in Developing Countries (Edward Elgar Press 2004); Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy: (with Dean Baker and Robert Pollin, Cambridge University Press 1998); Macroeconomic Policy After the Conservative Era: Studies in Investment, Saving and Finance (with Herbert Gintis, Cambridge University Press 1995); and Transforming the U.S. Financial System: An Equitable and Efficient Structure for the 21st Century (with Gary Dymski and Robert Pollin, M.E. Sharpe 1993). Professor Epstein's current work focuses on developing macroeconomic policies to promote just and sustainable improvements in living standards. He is also a long-time member of the Center for Popular Economics.
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Curriculum vitae
Contact: gepstein@econs.umass.edu Gerald Epstein
Gordon Hall
418 N. Pleasant St., Suite A
Amherst, MA 01002
413-577-0822
Graduate Courses
Economics 721 International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics I
Economics 797 International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics II
Related websites
Department of Economics University of Massachusetts
Center for Popular Economics
Econotrocities
Administrative Director
Judy Fogg earned her bachelor's degree as an Ada Comstock Scholar at Smith College with a major in sociology and a minor in political economy. Over the last 20 years she has been an administrator in a variety of environments, including higher education (admissions, development), publishing, and human services.
Contact: fogg@peri.umass.edu Judy Fogg
Gordon Hall
418 N. Pleasant St., Suite A
Amherst, MA 01002
413-577-1099
Assistant Research Professor
Heidi Garrett-Peltier holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on the employment impacts of public and private investments, particularly in the realm of clean-energy programs. Heidi has written and contributed to a number of reports on the clean energy economy (see Recent publications, below). She has also written about the employment effects of defense spending with co-author Robert Pollin, consulted with the U.S. Department of Energy on federal energy programs and is an active member of the Center for Popular Economics.
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Curriculum vitae
Contact: hpeltier@econs.umass.edu Heidi Garrett-Peltier
Gordon Hall
418 N. Pleasant St., Suite A
Amherst, MA 01002
413-577-0818
Associate Director and Associate Research Professor
James Heintz holds a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts and a master's degree from the University of Minnesota. He has written on a wide range of economic policy issues, including job creation, global labor standards, the distributive consequences of macroeconomic policies, and human rights. He has worked on collaborative projects with numerous United Nations agencies, including the International Labour Organization, the U.N. Research Institute for Social Development, the Economic Commission for Africa, the United Nations Development Programme, and UNIFEM. His policy work has focused on the U.S. as well as developing countries, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, the Gambia, Madagascar, and South Africa. He is co-author of several books including, with Nancy Folbre, The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as an economist at the National Labour and Economic Development Institute in Johannesburg, a policy think tank affiliated with the South African labor movement. His current work focuses on employment policy and poverty outcomes; economic policy choices and human rights; informal and atypical employment; macroeconomic policies for sub-Saharan Africa; and the links between economic policies and distributive outcomes, including race and gender dimensions.
Recent publications
Curriculum vitae
Contact: jheintz@econs.umass.edu James Heintz
Gordon Hall
418 N. Pleasant St., Suite A
Amherst, MA 01002
413-577-0228
Co-director and Professor of Economics
Robert Pollin's research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, the analysis of financial markets, and the economics of building a clean-energy economy in the U.S. His books include A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States (co-authored, 2008); An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya (co-authored, 2008); An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for South Africa (co-authored, 2007); Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity (2003); and The Living Wage: Building A Fair Economy (co-authored 1998); and the edited volumes Human Development in the Era of Globalization (co-edited 2006); Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy (co-edited, 1998); The Macroeconomics of Saving, Finance, and Investment (1997); and Transforming the U.S. Financial System (co-edited 1993). Most recently, he co-authored the studies “Green Recovery” (September 2008), “The Economic Benefits of Investing in Clean Energy” (June 2009), and “Green Prosperity” (June 2009) exploring the broader economic benefits of large-scale investments in building a clean-energy economy in the United States. He is currently consulting with the U.S. Department of Energy and the International Labour Organization on the economic analysis of clean-energy investments. He has worked with the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Economic Commission on Africa on policies to promote decent employment expansion and poverty reduction in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. He has also worked with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and as a member of the Capital Formation Subcouncil of the U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council.
Recent publications
Curriculum vitae
Contact: pollin@econs.umass.edu Robert Pollin
Gordon Hall
418 N. Pleasant St., Suite A
Amherst, MA 01002
413-577-0819
Assistant Research Professor
Jeff Thompson focuses primarily on domestic economic policy, with particular emphasis on the New England region and public finance at the state and local government levels. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at Syracuse University, and his research has been published in the National Tax Journal, Research in Labor Economics, and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Prior to his Ph.D. work, Jeff was a labor analyst at the Oregon Center for Public Policy for six years and received his Master's degree from the New School for Social Research.
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Contact: jthompson@peri.umass.edu Jeff Thompson
Gordon Hall
418 N. Pleasant St., Suite A
Amherst, MA 01002
413-577-0241
Assistant Research Professor
Jeannette Wicks-Lim completed her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005. Wicks-Lim specializes in labor economics with an emphasis on the low-wage labor market and has an overlapping interest in the political economy of race. Her dissertation, Mandated wage floors and the wage structure: Analyzing the ripple effects of minimum and prevailing wage laws, is a study of the overall impact of mandated wage floors on wages. Specifically, she provides empirical estimates of the extent to which mandated wage floors cause wage changes beyond those required by law, either through wage effects that ripple across the wage distribution or spillover to workers that are not covered by mandated wage floors. Other recent research includes economic impact studies of minimum wage and living wage proposals. Her current research interest includes the interaction between minimum wage laws and the Earned Income Tax Credit and the dynamics of the low-wage labor market. Prior to coming to PERI, Wicks-Lim was a visiting professor at Marlboro College, in Marlboro, Vermont. She has also worked as a research assistant for the Economic Policy Institute and a research associate for Monitoring the Future at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Contact: wickslim@peri.umass.edu Jeannette Wicks-Lim
Gordon Hall
418 N. Pleasant St., Suite A
Amherst, MA 01002
413-577-0820
Communications Director
Debbie Zeidenberg joined PERI in January, 2006, after six years as a welfare policy analyst in Olympia, Washington, where she co-authored "Going It Alone: Why Eligible Families Choose Not to Receive Public Benefits" and was a member of Governor Gregoire's Government Management Accountability and Performance Team. She has also evaluated social service programs in Iowa and served on numerous electoral campaigns in Washington State. Debbie has a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.P.A. from the University of Washington.
Contact: dzeiden@peri.umass.edu Debbie Zeidenberg
Gordon Hall
418 N. Pleasant St., Suite A
Amherst, MA 01002
413-577-3147
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