William Milberg

Professor of Economics

William Milberg is Dean and Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and Co-Director of the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School.

ARTICLES
2010 - 2020

2020

“Trump’s Tariffs and U.S. Workers”

New Labor Forum, 2020

2019

“Firm Innovation and Capitalist Dialectics: The Economics of Nina Shapiro”

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, Vol. 30, No. 4, October, 2019 (with Radhika Balakrishnan).

“Intellectual Monopoly in Global Value Chains”

Review of International Political Economy, September, 2019 (with C. Durand).

2017

“Gerhard Colm and the Americanization of Weimar Economic Thought”

Social Research, Vol. 84, No.4, Winter 2017

2016

“Global Defeminization?": Industrial Upgrading and Manufacturing Employment in Developing Countries”

Feminist Economics, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 2016 (with S. Tejani)

2014

“Industrial Policy in the Era of Vertically Specialized Industrialization”

in Industrial Policy for Economic Development: Lessons from Country Experiences, edited by J. Salazar-Xirinachs and R. Kozul-Wright, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 (with X. Jiang and G. Gereffi).

2013

“Implications of the Financial Crisis for Firm Innovation”

Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 36, No. 2, Winter 2013-14 (with N. Shapiro).

“Does Industrial Upgrading Lead to Employment and Wage Gains?”

Oxford Handbook of Outsourcing and Employment, A. Bardhan et al., Editors, Oxford University Press, 2013 (with T. Bernhardt).

“A Note on Economic Austerity in Science, Morality, and Political Economy”

Social Research, Vol. 80, No. 3, Fall 2013.

“Methodenstreit 2013: Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Debate Over How to Reform Macroeconomics”

Forum for Social Economics, 2013 (prize for best article in the journal in 2012-2013, with P. Spiegler).

2012

”Bias in the ’ Proportionality Assumption’ Used in the Measurement of Offshoring”

World Economics, Vol. 14, No. 4, October-December 2012 (with D. Winkler).

“Classical and Neoclassical Theories of Offshore Outsourcing”

in M. Trautwein, editor, Macroeconomics and Income Distribution: Essays in Honor of Harald Hageman, 2012 (with D. Winkler).

2011

“Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks: Problems of Theory and Measurement”

International Labour Review, 2011 (with D. Winkler).

“The Business of Macroeconomic Imbalances:  Comparing Gluts in Savings, Money and Profits”

in P. Arestis, editor, Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Essays in Honor of Malcolm Sawyer, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 (with L. Schmitz)

"After T-Bills and T-Shirts: China’s Role in “High” and “Low” Fashion after the Global Economic Crisis"

Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, 2011 (with H. Clark).

2010

“Financialization and the Dynamics of Offshoring”

Cambridge Journal of Economics, March, 2010 (with D. Winkler).

“Economic Insecurity in the New Wave of Globalization: Offshoring and the Labor Share Under Varieties of Capitalism”

International Review of Applied Economics, 2010. (with D. Winkler)

“Trade, Crisis and Recovery: Restructuring of Global Value Chains”

Policy Research Working Paper 5294, The World Bank, May 2010 (with D. Winkler).    

“Robert Heilbroner”

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008.

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