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Staff Economists

Associate Members

Randy Albelda
Masato Aoki
Minsik Choi
Kim Christensen
Paul Malherbe
Mary L. Orisich
Kevin Crocker
Mike Ford
Jane Kiser
Marc Kitchel
Pierre Laliberté


What is the Center for Popular Economics?

The Center for Popular Economics is a non-profit collective of political economists based in Amherst, MA. Since our founding in 1978, thousands of people have participated in our workshops and institutes.
Our programs and publications simplifies the economy and put useful economic tools in the hands of people fighting for social and economic justice. We examine root causes of economic inequality and injustice including systems of oppression based on race, class, gender, nation and ethnicity.
CPE is about connections:

What is the connection between poverty wages and welfare reform? What is the connection between financial markets and homelessness? What is the connection between racism and environmental degradation?
CPE is about forging links between seemingly isolated issues so that groups working for progressive change can understand the common threads that run through all of our specific concerns.

Advisory Board

Lee Badgett, Economist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
and Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies

Sam Bowles, Economics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

James K. Boyce, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer, FL

Jean Entine, Boston Women's Fund, Boston, MA

Bill Fletcher, Jr., Assistant to the President, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC

Ilene Grabel, Economist, School of International Studies, University of Denver, CO

Tasha Harmon, Community Development Network, Portland, OR

Robert Pollin, Department of Economics and Political Economy Research Institute,.University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jim Price, Staff Director, Sierra Club - Southeast Office, Birmingham, AL

Sofia Quintero, The Brecht Forum, NYC

Tom Riddell, Economics, Smith College, Northampton, MA

Holly Sklar, MediaVision, Boston, MA

Ann Withorn, College of Public and Community Service,
University of Massachusetts, Boston and anti-poverty activist

Lyuba Zarsky, Director, Globalization and Governance Program,
Nautilus Inst. for Security and Sustainable Development, Berkeley, CA

Howard Zinn, Historian, Boston, MA

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