The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Richard D. Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and
Visiting Professor at the New School University. He has a PhD in Economics from Yale University as
well as degrees from Harvard (History BA) and Stanford (Economics MA). Wolff taught Economics at
Yale, the City University of New York and the University of Massachusetts. He has also been a visiting
professor at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne). He now lives in Manhattan with his wife, a practicing
psychotherapist. He has authored or co-authored 10 books and over 50 scholarly articles and 75 popular
articles. His recent work has concentrated on analyzing the causes and alternative solutions to the current
global economic crisis. He also hosts a weekly radio program, “Economic Update,” broadcast on WBAI,
99.5 FM in New York.

• The U.S. in the World Economy