Bridget Fisher is a researcher and communications specialist with a background in government and public affairs. Before joining SCEPA, she was a senior press officer in The New School’s communications department working with social science departments across the university. She came to higher education from government. In New York, she served as chief of staff for a member of the New York City Council and director of communications for the Working Families Party. On Capitol Hill, she served as press secretary and legislative assistant for a member of the U.S. Congress. Bridget graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree in public communication and women’s studies. She received her master's degree in public administration with a focus on urban economic development from CUNY's Baruch College.
Multi-Agent Systems as a Tool for Analyzing Path-Dependent Macrodynamics
This paper discusses the concept of path dependence in macrodynamics, and identifies practical difficulties associated with building path-dependent macrodynamic models.
What Factors Give Cryptocurrencies Their Value
This paper aims to identify the likely source(s) of value that cryptocurrencies exhibit in the marketplace using cross sectional empirical data examining 66 of the most used such 'coins'.
Financial Output as Economic Input
This paper investigates the inconsistent treatment of financial services in the national accounts.
Smith, Malthus and Recent Evidence in Global Population Dynamics
This paper finds that the world production still exhibits strong pattern of increasing returns to scale, and most countries' population have been stabilizing along a convex path in the income-fertility schedule.
Heterodox Economics, Social Ontology, and the Use of Mathematics
The argument advanced in this paper challenges Tony Lawson's claim that a heterodox economist's use of mathematical modeling is at odds with their (implicit) acceptance of an open-systems ontology.
The Decision to Produce Altcoins
A model is developed in this paper to formalize this process where cryptocurrency miners seeking to maximize production in terms of bitcoins earned in a day will exploit any such opportunities.
A Cost of Production Model for Bitcoin
As bitcoin becomes more important as a worldwide financial phenomenon, it also becomes important to understand its sources of value formation.
Thrift, Stagnation and Wealth Distribution in a Two Class Economy
A two class (rentiers and workers) model of growth and distribution is applied to the study of long run stagnation in aggregate demand.
A Quantal Response Model of Firm Competition
This paper proposes a model of “classically” competitive firms facing informational entropy constraints in their decisions to potentially enter or exit markets based on profit rate differentials.
Eurozone Imbalances: Expenditure Switching and Expenditure Volumes
This paper introduces a decomposition of the trade ratio.
