34 faculty and 71 courses in Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- Lawrence King, Professor h-index 41
Comparative Political Economy, Political Economy of Health, Development, Comparative Historical Sociology, Post communist Transition, Methodology, Theory, Complex Organizations, Industrial Organization Classes Taught Undergraduate: Global T
Notable: “Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World” (2000) · 625 citations
- Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Professor h-index 40
Notable: “Costly Punishment Across Human Societies” (2006) · 1,802 citations
- Christopher Boone, Assistant Professor h-index 40
Primary Fields Labor Market Policy Economic History Agriculture Areas of Specialization Inequality Technological Change Economic Crises Agriculture Selected Publications “Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment,” with Ari
Notable: “Social value orientation and cooperation in social dilemmas: A review and conceptual model” (2008) · 416 citations
- Arindrajit Dube, Provost Professor of Economics h-index 36
Competition and wage setting in labor market Fairness concerns at workplace Minimum wage policies Fiscal policy and local multipliers Health care reform and employer mandates Impact of unionization GRANTS Research Grants Obtained (Principal
Notable: “The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs*” (2019) · 2,413 citations
- Leonce Ndikumana, Distinguished Professor, Director African Development Policy Program h-index 34
Capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa: magnitudes, causes, and consequences Macroeconomic policies in African countries: fiscal, monetary, and exchange rate policies Financial intermediation and real economic activity Capital flows, capita
Notable: “Public Debts and Private Assets: Explaining Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries” (2002) · 276 citations
- Jayati Ghosh, Professor h-index 29
Notable: “The Unnatural Coupling: Food and Global Finance” (2009) · 236 citations
- Robert Pollin, Distinguished Professor, Co-Director of PERI h-index 27
Notable: “Does high public debt consistently stifle economic growth? A critique of Reinhart and Rogoff” (2013) · 1,187 citations
- Kevin Young, Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Leveraged interests: Financial industry power and the role of private sector coalitions” (2013) · 275 citations
- James Heintz, Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics h-index 23
James Heintz has written on a wide range of economic policy issues, including job creation, global labor standards, the distributive consequences of macroeconomic policies, and the intersection between economics and human rights. He has wor
Notable: “Global apparel production and sweatshop labour: can raising retail prices finance living wages?” (2004) · 96 citations
- Michael Ash, Professor, Graduate Program Director h-index 22
Environment Health Health Disparities Labor TEACHING Capstone in Public Policy and Administration Econometrics Economic Instruments for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Economics of Health Graduate Applied Econometrics Health and Environmental Ine
Notable: “Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks? Evidence from the EPA's Risk‐Screening Environmental Indicators Model*” (2004) · 218 citations
- Gregor Semieniuk, Assistant Research Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Financing renewable energy: Who is financing what and why it matters” (2017) · 668 citations
- Deepankar Basu, Professor h-index 18
Classical political economy Political economy of development (with a focus on India) Applied econometrics TEACHING Introductory Econometrics Introduction to Marxist Political Economy Intermediate Macroeconomics Applied Time Series Econometr
Notable: “Son targeting fertility behavior: Some consequences and determinants” (2010) · 115 citations
- Ina Ganguli, Professor h-index 17
Labor economics, Economics of Science & Innovation, Development Economics, Economic History. Recent research has focused on migration of high-skill workers, gender differences in the labor market, social entrepreneurship and scientific
Notable: “A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations” (2017) · 142 citations
- Patrick Mason, Professor, Chair of Economics Department h-index 16
Notable: “Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender” (1998) · 533 citations
- Donald W. Katzner, Professor h-index 16
Microeconomic Theory Methodology Culture and Economic Behavior Japan and the Japanese Economy Organization Theory Honors and Awards Recognition for distinguished academic
Notable: “Static Demand Theory” (1972) · 182 citations
- Arslan Razmi, Professor h-index 15
Open economy macroeconomics International trade Development economics Political economy of growth and distribution History of economic thought Teaching Macroeconomics (graduate and undergraduate) Open economy macroeconomics (graduate and un
Notable: “The real exchange rate and economic development” (2012) · 196 citations
- Naoki Yoshihara, Professor h-index 15
Welfare Economics Mathematical Marxian Economics Theories of Distributive Justice Political Competition History of Economic Thoughts International Trade Theory Honors and Awards The Distinguished Achievement Award in Political Economy for T
Notable: “Class and exploitation in general convex cone economies” (2010) · 48 citations
- Isabella Weber, Associate Professor h-index 12
/Specialisation Inflation and monetary economics, China’s political economy, international trade and (de-)globalization, history of economic thought Teaching University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics Econ 204 Intermediate
Notable: “Sellers’ inflation, profits and conflict: why can large firms hike prices in an emergency?” (2023) · 193 citations
- Jennifer S. Long, Lecturer h-index 11
Notable: “Allosteric opening of the polypeptide-binding site when an Hsp70 binds ATP” (2013) · 251 citations
- Fidan Ana Kurtulus, Professor h-index 10
Fidan Ana Kurtulus' research explores a number of topics in labor economics, including the organization of workers within firms, participatory workplace practices and employee ownership, the causes and consequences of workplace diversity, a
Notable: “Do Female Top Managers Help Women to Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records” (2011) · 156 citations
- Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Associate Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Caste Stratification and Wealth Inequality in India” (2011) · 176 citations
- Itai Sher, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Director h-index 10
Welfare Economics Ethics and Economics Microeconomic Theory Professional Activities Co-organizer of Conference on Normative Ethics and Welfare Economics at the Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago, October 2014.
Notable: “Children’s strategic theory of mind” (2014) · 66 citations
- Mwangi wa Githinji, Associate Professor, Associate Dean h-index 10
The political economy of development with particular interest in Africa and issues of inequality, poverty, rural development and the environment Marxian Class analysis The impact of East Asian development on African countries Decolonial Stu
Notable: “Small farms, smaller plots: land size, fragmentation, and productivity in Ethiopia” (2017) · 92 citations
- Lenore Palladino, Associate Professor h-index 10
Economic Policy, Corporate Governance, Financialization, Cooperative Economics, Employee Ownership, Corporate Finance, Shareholder Primacy, Labor Economics, Inequality, Tax Policy, Law & Economics, Business and Securities Law. Selected
Notable: “Financialization at work: Shareholder primacy and stagnant wages in the United States” (2020) · 35 citations
- Katherine Moos, Associate Professor h-index 6
Political economy of policy and the welfare state Social reproduction, unpaid household labor, and care work Time-use and working-hours legislation Teaching Public Finance Political Economy Microeconomics Honors and Awards Edith Henry Johns
Notable: “Finding Time: The Economics of Work–Life Conflict” (2016) · 38 citations
- Noe Wiener, Senior Lecturer h-index 5
Notable: “Race, gender and the econophysics of income distribution in the USA” (2014) · 53 citations
- Guillermo Matamoros, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Are Firm Markups Boosting Inflation? A Post-Keynesian Institutionalist Approach to Markup Inflation in Select Industrialized Countries” (2023) · 24 citations
- Hans Despain, Lecturer of Economics
- Iryna Bobukh, Lecturer
- John Clegg, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Marta Vicarelli, Assistant Professor
The risks and the socio-economic impacts of climate variability and climate change. The economics of Nature-based Solutions for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Climate resilience and green-recovery strategies Renewabl
- Priyanka Srivastava, Associate Professor
Histories of class Labor and Urbanism Class and Gender Politics of Reproduction Working Class and Associational Culture in Colonial India Teaching Economic History of Colonial South Asia City, Industry and Labor in Modern India British Empi
- Sandra Roberts, Senior Lecturer, Junior Year Writing
- Valerie Voorheis, Senior Lecturer II, Faculty Advisor
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.