Edward Nathan Wolff (April 10, 1946) is an American
economist
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whose work concerns
wealth
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and
wealth disparity
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. He is a professor of economics at
New York University
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In 1832, the ...
and a research associate at the
National Bureau of Economic Research
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. He also works at the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being a department of the
Levy Economics Institute
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, where he is in charge of their distribution of income and wealth program.
Education
His 1974 PhD dissertation at
Yale University
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was entitled "Models of Production and Exchange in the Works of Adam Smith and David Ricardo".
Career
From 2003 to 2004 Edward Wolff was a visiting scholar with the
Russell Sage Foundation
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.
Research
In 2007, he and
Ajit Zacharias proposed a
schema
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on the inequality of employment.
In a 2010 report by economist
Richard Vedder
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Biography
Vedder was born on Novemb ...
and colleagues, Wolff is described as one of few academic scholars who have spoken out against problems in academia that have led to increasing number of college graduates being
underemployed.
Editorial work
Edward Wolff is serving as an Associate Editor of the ''Structural Change and Economic Dynamics'' since 1989
and in the past held a position of a managing editor of the ''
Review of Income and Wealth
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''.
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Publications
Edward Wolff is an author of numerous books, including:[
*''Growth, Accumulation, and Unproductive Activity: An Analysis of the Postwar US Economy'' (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
*''Productivity and American Leadership: The Long View'' (with W. J. Baumol and S. B. Blackman; The MIT Press, 1989)
*''Competitiveness, Convergence, and International Specialization'' (with D. Dollar; The MIT Press, 1993)
*''Top Heavy: A Study of the Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America'' (Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995)
*''Retirement Insecurity: The Income Shortfalls Awaiting the Soon-to-Retire'' (Economic Policy Institute, 2002)
*''Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, and Consequences'' (with W. J. Baumol and A. S. Blinder; Russell Sage Foundation, 2003)
*''Retirement Income: The Crucial Role of Social Security'' (with C. Weller; Economic Policy Institute, 2005)
*''Does Education Really Help? Skill, Work, and Inequality'' (Oxford University Press, 2006)
*''The Transformation of the American Pension System: Was It Beneficial for Workers?'' (W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2011)
*''Productivity Growth: Industries, Spillovers and Economic Performance'' (with T. ten Raa; Edward Elgar Publishers, 2012)
*''Productivity Convergence: Theory and Evidence'', Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature Series (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
*''Inheriting Wealth in America: Future Boom or Bust?'' (Oxford University Press, 2015)
*''A Century of Wealth in America'' (The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2017)
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References
External links
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The Transformation of the American Pension System: Was It Beneficial for Workers? W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2011.
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1946 births
Living people
21st-century American economists
Harvard University alumni
Yale University alumni
New York University faculty
National Bureau of Economic Research
Russell Sage Foundation