William Milberg

William Milberg is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York. He serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic and Policy Analysis. His research focuses on the labor market effects of international trade and investment, global value chains and economic development, corporate governance and value chain governance, and the history and methodology of economics.

William has worked as a consultant the UNDP, UNCTAD, the World Bank and the ILO. He is the co-author (with Robert Heilbroner) of The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought and The Making of Economic Society and editor of Labor and the Globalization of Production: Causes and Consequences of Industrial Upgrading and The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Essays in Memory of Alfred Eichner.  Recent articles appear in The Cambridge Journal of Economics, The Journal of Institutional Economics, and the International Review of Applied Economics. He currently serves as a Researcher on the “Capturing the Gains” project at the University of Manchester.

William received his Ph.D. in economics from Rutgers University in 1987 and his B.A. in economics and french from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979.