Research Scholars

Shakuntala Das is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. She has earned two masters degrees in economics from the University of Calcutta and the University of Missouri Columbia, and a PhD in economics from the University of Missouri – Kansas City under the supervision of Dr. L. Randall Wray. Shakuntala taught […]

Jesús G. Reséndiz-Silva is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Dr Reséndiz-Silva is a Mexican economist who earned his Ph.D. at the University of East Anglia, in the United Kingdom. His current research aims to develop monetary and economic sovereignty in developing countries through mission-oriented industrial policies that generate innovative, sustainable,

Lihua Chen is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of Statistics at James Madison University. She received her Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University. Her research interests include model selection, model combining, Bayesian methods, capture-recapture methods and Information Theory. She has published refereed articles in statistics, epidemiology, biology

Jennifer C. Olmsted is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. She is currently Professor of Economics, Director of the Social Entrepreneurship Semester, and Director of Middle East Studies and Arabic at Drew University. She has also worked in the policy arena, most recently as the Gender Advisor at the UN Population

Pavlina R. Tcherneva is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity associate professor of economics at Bard College. She previously taught at Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. During 2000-2006, Tcherneva served as the associate director for economic analysis at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability,

Rohan Grey is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He is the Founder and President of the Modern Money Network; a global learning hub that promotes public understanding of money and finance. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, an L.L.M. from the London School of Economics, and a M.A. in

Mark Peacock is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Professor in the Department of Social Science, York University, Toronto, where he teaches in the Business & Society undergraduate programme and the Social and Political Thought graduate programme. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1996 and worked at Witten/HerdeckeUniversity

Scott Ferguson is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and associate professor of Film & Media Studies in the Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida. Dr. Ferguson earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. His current

Jerry Courvisanos is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Federation Business School, Mt Helen Campus, Ballarat, Federation University Australia. Jerry’s basic research is focuses on understanding the processes of innovation and their impact on investment spending, business cycles, sustainable development and the long-term development