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.
A Simple Analytical Model of the Adverse Real Effects of Inflation
The essential insight advanced in this paper is that the claim that inflation can impair growth makes most sense in the context of a monetary production economy.
A Topic Model on the Economic Orientation of Sociology
This paper tests the conventional story that since the birth of the discipline of sociology, the economic orientation of the discipline has peaked twice: 1890-1920 and sometime after 1985.
Path Dependency
Path dependency is defined, and three different specific concepts of path dependency – cumulative causation, lock in, and hysteresis – are analyzed.
Time Variation in the Size of the Multiplier
This paper contributes to the theory of the time-varying multiplier.
Global Development Goals: If At All, Why, When and How?
We raise some basic conceptual questions regarding global development goals: Why have them at all? What function, if any, might they serve, and under what conditions could they do so successfully?
Savings from Top Incomes and Accumulation in the United States Context
This paper proposes that high savings out of top incomes contributed to the steady wealth income ratio amongst US households.
$1.90 Per Day: What Does it Say?
We present alternate estimates of global, regional and national poverty based on reasoning as to what the Bank’s own method, consistently applied, would entail.
Wealth Accumulation and Aggregate Demand Stagnation
I develop a structuralist model of long run growth and distribution with capitalists and workers.
On the Necessity of Money
This paper argues that both Smith and Marx find money to be necessary for the specialization of individual producers and the regulation of social production by market exchange.
The Possibility of “Consumption-Driven, Profit-Led Growth"
We first show that, with a Kaleckian structure that is consistent with Pasinetti (1962), the relationship between distribution and growth is more robust than conventional wisdom suggests.
