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2026-27 Economics Student Handbook (coming soon)
The diversity of the dissertations produced by Economics doctoral students at The New School for Social Research speaks to the breadth of scholarship and range of interests among the department's graduates.
Qasim Abbas
Detroit Rise and Fall: Intra-Industrial Automotive Competition & Racial-Residential Segregation. A Theoretical, Historical and Empirical Treatment
Marjan Ardekani Fadavi
Essays on Power and Economics
Mohamed Berrada
African Anthropocenes, European Structures: Essays on the Long Shadow of Slavery, Colonialism and Underdevelopment
Cesar Castillo Garcia
Essays on Historical and Political Economy and Income Distribution
Jose Alejandro Coronado
Essays on Information Theory and its Application to Economic Analysis
Daniel Delavari Younessi
Three Essays on Socioeconomic Dynamics
Jacobo Ferrer
Essays on Structural Change and Living Standards
Drew Landes
Trade, Global Value Chains and Power: The role of oligopsony, 1995-2020
Eduard Nilaj
Three Essays on Students' Debt and Financial Health
Gina Maria Parody
Aspects of the Political Economy of Violence: A case study of Colombia
Kurt Semm
Capitalist Development and Water Management: A Case Study of Southwest US
Owen Davis
Three Essays in Labor Market Dynamics and Institutions
David Gruber
A Scalar Metric of the Real Quantity of Heterogeneous Capital and Implications for the Cambridge Capital Controversy
Zachary Knauss
Three Essays in Labor Market Dynamics and Institutions
Andreas Lichtenberger
Three Essays on Fiscal Policies for an Ecologically Sustainable and Socially Equitable Economy
Piotr Panko
Classification Tree Method of Identifying Weak Banks
Birte Strunk
The Vital and Social Necessity to Work: Economic Perspectives on Wage Labor in the Socio-ecological Transformation
Yuki Tada
Three Essays on the Dynamics of Debt, Capital Accumulation and Growth
Marieme Toure
Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Senegal
José Pedro Bastos Neves
Three Essays on Macroeconomics, Credit Flows, and the Green Transition
Aida Farmand
Monopsony, Labor Policy, and Older Workers' Bargaining Power
Ettore Gallo
Essays on Macrodynamic Theory, Historical Time and Climate Change
Patrick Earl Mokre
Wage Inequality and Real Competition
Kyle Kilgore Moore
Topics in Stratification Economics: Health and Theoretical Approaches
Kalpa Maduranga Rajapaksha
Capital and Peasant Production: Dialectics of Primitive Accumulation, Extended Reproduction, and Peasant Resistance in Sri Lanka
Amit Roy
Three Essays in the Economics of Environment and Climate Change
Barbara Schuster
Gender and Power in Markets and Marriages
Clara Zanon Brenck
Three Essays on Wage Inequality Within and Between Economies
João Paulo Carneiro de Holanda Braga
Three Essays on Climate Finance and Green Economic Policy
Emanuele Citera
Stock Returns, Expectation Fulfillment and Information Theory: A Statistical Equilibrium Approach
Juan Matias De Lucchi
Three Essays on Unstable Exchange Markets and Monetary Policy Implications
Victoria Echeverria
Is Brazil Losing Value to Its Trade Partners Due to Unequal Exchange? An Estimation of Value Transfer Between Brazil, China, the United States, the European Union and Argentina
Rania El Azem
A Human Development Index of the Vast Majority
Michael David Flaherty
Three Essays on the Economics of Climate Change
Daniyal Khan
Three Essays on the Theory and History of Central Bank Evolution
Gustavo Pereira Serra
Three Essays on Human Capital Formation and Student Loans: A Post-Keynesian Perspective
Selen Ozcelik
Three Essays on International Trade and Balance of Payments Constrained Growth
Julia M. Puaschunder
Three Essays on Environmental Justice
Alexander Haider
Three Essays on Non-linear Macroeconomic Modeling and Forecasting
Danielle Kavanagh-Smith
Does Gentrification Contribute to Homelessness? A Study of Family Shelter Entry Across New York City, 2005-2015
Michael Papadopoulos
Four Studies on Alternative Work Arrangements, Bargaining Power, and Labor Supply at Older Ages
Remzi Baris Tercioglu
A Sectoral Approach to Measuring US Growth, Inequality and Output Gap
Elaine Tontoh
The Triple Day Thesis: Three Theoretical Essays on the Capability Perspective and Economics of Motherhood
Oriol Vallès Codina
Economic Production as Life: A Classical Approach to Computational Social Science
Brandt Weathers
The Best Capital: Essays On Fossil Fuel Divestment, Green Reinvestment, and Climate Risk
Srishti Yadav
Agrarian Question in India: Past, Present, Future
Joana David Avritzer
Three Essays on Growth, Income Distribution and Household Debt
Kyle Douglas Glenn
Essays on Wages, Skills, and Consumer Behavior
Isabella Maria Weber
Essays on Theories of Money and International Trade
Luiza Nassif Pires
Identity Conflict and Functional Income Distribution: Essays on Gender, Class Solidarity, and the Wage-Profit Frontier
Siavash Radpour
Retirement Wealth Inequality: A Critical and Institutional Review
Ilan Strauss
An Investigation into Changing Investment Dynamics by Firms
Katyayani Dalmia
Inhabiting One's Skin: An Ethnography of Body and Color in a North Indian City
Francisco Jesus Aldape
Essays in the History of Economics and Economic Policy during the Interwar Gold Standard
Deon Frederick Gibson
Three Essays on the Wage Share-Unemployment Relationship
Jesse Hajer
The Political Economy of Social Impact Bonds
Juan E. Jacobo Vazquez
Essays on the Statistical Modeling of Classical Macrodynamics
Maria Angela Parra
Prebisch and Singer in a Global Value Chains World: Essays on Manufacturing and Commodities Terms of Trade
Ibrahim Shikaki
Distribution & Growth in Politically-Contested Economies: Measurement and Applications in Palestine
Noe Wiener
Essays on Labor Mobility and Segmentation
Keith Blackwell
Entropy Constrained Behavior in Financial Markets, a Quantal Response Statistical Equilibrium Approach to Financial Modeling
Monica Lisette Hernandez Chavez
Essays on the Political Economy of Co-operation and Co-ordination
Samar Issa
Life After Debt: Inquiry into Bank Leverage
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Essays on Global Development, Trade and Finance
Ozlem Omer
Essays on Modeling Housing Market Behavior, Income Distribution and Wealth Concentration
Damian Nicholas Parker
Amalgamation of Capital - A Treatise on Wealth Distributions
Houda Rabah
Restricted Portfolio Management: The Case of Islamic Finance
Catherine Ruetschlin
Intra-Industry Occupational Segregation: Measuring The Role of Race & Ethnicity in Occupational Hierarchies
Luis Daniel Torres Gonzalez
Essays on Prices of Production and the Interindustry Structure of Technology and Demand
Jangho Yang
Essays on the Statistical Equilibrium Model of Technical Change
Anthony Bonen
Essays in Shareholder Value, the Cost of Equity and Investment Cycles
Jeronim Capaldo
Essays On the Macroeconomics of Global Trade Expansion
Katherine Moos
Essays on the Theory and Political Economy of Economic Policy
Oliver Picek
Essays in Macroeconomic Policy of the Euro Area
Jermaine Toney
Essays on the Stratification in Wealth in the United States
Bhargavi Ramamurthy
Consumer Expenditures, Household Production and Inflation: Gender and Macroeconomic Considerations
Steven Bollon
Generalized and Weight Constrained Mean-Variance Efficient Portfolio Selection for the U.S. Public-Sector Pension Plan
Mary Borrowman
Essays on Gendered Labor Market Outcomes, International Trade and Economic Development
Raphaele Chappe
A Portfolio-Based Study on Wealth Accumulation and Distribution
Mark Knell
Three Essays on the Economics of Transition
Rishabh Kumar
Three Essays on the Distribution of Wealth and Capital Incomes
Francisco Martinez Hernandez
The Political Economy of Real Exchange Rate Behavior: Theory and Empirical Evidence for Developed and Developing Countries
Bhargavi Ramamurthy
Consumer Expenditures, Household Production and Inflation: Gender and Macroeconomic Considerations
Enno Schroeder
Euro Area Imbalances: Three Essays on Offshoring, Expenditure Growth, and Expenditure Switching
Sinem Sonmez
Macroeconomic Response to Oil Price Shocks From 1970-2013
Ibrahim Tahri Lamtahri
Essays on New Approach and Methods to Keynesian Macroeconomics
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