We are thrilled to welcome SCEPA Fellow Darrick Hamilton, a leading stratification economist focusing on racial disparities and inequality in education, economic, and health outcomes, back to The New School in 2021 as the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and a University Professor.

Kyle Moore starts a new job on Capitol Hill next week. He’ll be joining the Democratic staff of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) as a Senior Policy Analyst.

Willi Semmler, who leads SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change project, and a diverse team of researchers received a competitive grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC).

SCEPA’s Retirement Equity Lab (ReLab) was honored to be chosen to participate in AARP’s Social Security Innovation Challenge.

What is the “retirement wealth inequality machine?”

The result of a failed retirement savings system, according to retirement expert and economist Teresa Ghilarducci in an interview with INET.

On October 16, 2016, Richard Wolff of the University of Massachusetts Amherst hosted SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci for “The Pension Crisis” segment of Wolff’s Economic Update.

SCEPA is pleased to announce the publication of Dynamic Modeling, Empirical Macroeconomics, and Finance.

New School Economics Professor Lance Taylor thinks most economists are missing the big picture.

SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci was named to Next Avenue’s 2016 list of Influencers in Aging for her work to reform the retirement system with Guaranteed Retirement Accounts.

SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci was named to Philadelphia’s Task Force on Retirement Security for Private Sector Employees.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is ramping up its collaboration with climate change experts in the academic community.

SCEPA is proud to congratulate New School Economics PhD Heather Boushey on her appointment as chief economist of Hillary Clinton’s transition team.

New School Economics PhD Aleksandr Gevorkyan published, “Financial Deepening and Post-Crisis Development in Emerging Markets Current Perils and Future Dawns”

On September 20, 2016, POLITICO's Ben White hosted Teresa Ghilarducci and Blackstone President Tony James for a "Cocktails and Conversation" event featuring their new book, Rescuing Retirement.

The Department of Labor today published a final rule to address conflicts of interest in retirement advice.

On November 21, 2015, Institutional Investor published Mark Henricks’ review of SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci’s new book, How to Retire with Enough Money and How to Know What Enough Is.

SCEPA Economist Willi Semmler signed the Economists' Declaration on Universal Health Coverage, calling on global policymakers to "prioritize universal health care coverage as an essential pillar of sustainable development."

The German Research Foundation (DFG) awarded grants to seven SCEPA economists to support research on wealth and disparity in the United States and Germany.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer named SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci to an expert taskforce to study how to provide retirement security to New York City residents lacking retirement plans at work.

Thomas Piketty, leading economist and best-selling author of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," shares his view on what it means to be an economist at The New School.