This is an interesting and worthwhile story to post on the eve of the Iowa Caucus.
Two weeks ago, David Leonhardt wrote a piece on John Edwards’ economic policy that implied that it ran a bit thin since only one significant economist had signed on — and that was UT Austin’s James K. Galbraith, son of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of JFK’s whiz kids.
Galbraith took Leonhardt’s bait and got a bunch more economists to sign on to Edwards’ economic plan, which has been sculpted in part by Galbraith and the colorful telecom and sports industry tycoon Leo Hindery, a Democratic CEO who is a major proponent of stakeholder approaches to business, the economy, and governing in general.
Galbraith’s recruits, gathered quickly, are an impressive bunch and include my former boss Clyde Prestowitz.
Leonhardt updates the exchange today — and here is the roster of the economists who think Edwards is not only economically sound but economically right:
Economists for Edwards
Note that institutional affiliations are for identification purposes only.
Gar Alperovitz
Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy
University of Maryland-College Park
Lourdes Beneria
Professor of City and Regional Planning
Cornell University
Michael A. Bernstein
Provost
Tulane University
Martha Campbell
Associate Professor, Economics
SUNY Potsdam
Manuel Castells
Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society
University of Southern California, and
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Science and Technology
MIT
Jane D’Arista
Former staff economist
U.S. House of Representatives
William Darity, Jr.
Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies
Professor of African and Africa-American Studies and Economics
Duke University
Paul Davidson
Editor, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
The New School University
Gerald Epstein
Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Susan F. Feiner
Director of Women’s Studies
Professor of Economics
University of Southern Maine
James K. Galbraith
Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations
LBJ School of Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin, and
Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute
Richard Garrett
Associate Professor of Economics
Division of Accounting and Business Management
Marymount Manhattan College
Mary King
Professor of Economics
Portland State University
Jan Kregel
Visiting Distinguished Research Professor of Economics
The University of Missouri – Kansas City
Peter Hans Matthews
Department of Economics
Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont 05753
Deirdre McCloskey
Professor of Economics
University of Illinois at Chicago
Richard McIntyre
Honors Program Director and Professor of Economics
University of Rhode Island.
Thomas Michl
Professor of Economics
Colgate University
David Miller
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
John Miller
Professor of Economics
Wheaton College
Tracy Mott
Professor of Economics
University of Colorado at Boulder
Thomas Palley
Founder
Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project
Dimitri Papadimitriou
President
Levy Economics Institute
Bard College
Chip Poirot
Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Social Sciences
Shawnee State University
Robert Pollin
Professor of Economics and Director,
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Robert Prasch
Associate Professor of Economics
Middlebury College
Clyde Prestowitz
President
Economic Strategy Institute
Bruce Roberts
Professor of Economics
University of Southern Maine
J. Barkley Rosser
Professor of Economics
James Madison University
Harley Shaiken
Class of 1930 Professor
Graduate School of Education and Department of Geography
University of California, Berkeley
Nina Shapiro
Professor and Chair
Department of Economics and Finance,
Saint Peter’s College
Edward Wolff
Professor of Economics
New York University
Martin Wolfson
Professor of Economics and Policy Studies
University of Notre Dame
L. Randall Wray
Research Director
Center for Full Employment and Price Stability
Department of Economics
University of Missouri-Kansas City, and
Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute
More later. . .or early tomorrow. . .
— Steve Clemons
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