No. 35 - Arjun Jayadev and J.W. Mason

Arjun Jayadev is a Professor of Economics at the School of Arts and Sciences at Azim Premji University (APU), Bangalore. He is a Senior Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He has also worked as an Associate Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts (UMass), Boston, as a Fellow at Roosevelt Institute, New York & was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Columbia University Committee on Global Thought, New York . He is also a board member of Oxfam India. His research interests are economics & development, with interests across multiple areas such as, macroeconomics (especially issues of debt, balance sheets, the political economy of finance and central banking and macroeconomic policy choices), income distribution and inequality (classical approaches to distribution, and group based inequalities), intellectual property, and the economics of power. Arjun was also the co-editor of ‘The Journal of Globalization and Development’ from 2013 to 2018. He has won numerous awards for his research.

J.W. Mason is associate professor of economics at John Jay College, CUNY and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. His research focuses on the history and political economy of money and credit, including the evolution of household debt, public-sector balance sheets, and the changing role of financial markets in business investment. His Ph.D. in economics is from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his B.A. is from the University of Chicago. He has published articles in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Metroeconomica, Rethinking Marxism, and Review of Keynesian Economics, as well as Review of Radical Political Economics. His popular writing has appeared in The American Prospect, The Baffler, Barron’s, Boston Review, City Limits, Dissent, The International Economy, In These Times, Jacobin, New Statesman, and the New York Daily News, among other publications. His personal blog is at jwmason.org/the-slack-wire.

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