Research Scholars

Olafur Margeirsson is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a Senior Real Estate Strategist working for Zurich Insurance, Switzerland. He is furthermore an alternate member of the Supervisory Board of the Central Bank of Iceland. He finished his PhD in economics (“Financial Instability and Foreign Direct Investment”) from the University […]

Yan Liang is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an Associate Professor at Willamette University. Her research interest includes a Post Keynesian-Institutional approach to international trade and finance, financial macroeconomics and economic development (with a regional focus on China). She has published articles in International Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic

Oren M. Levin-Waldman is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Professor of public policy in the School for Public Affairs and Administration at Metropolitan College of New York. He is author of Restoring the Middle Class though Wage Policy (Palgrave MacMillan), Wage Policy, Income Distribution, and Democratic Theory(Routledge); The American Constitution (Bridgepoint

Daniel Kostzer is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, a Senior Regional Wages Specialist at the ILO Asia and the Pacific, and a former Board Member at the World Bank Group (Alternate Executive Director from Argentina for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay). His earlier positions include Senior Economic Advisor

Michael P. Kelsay is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He has been member of the faculty in the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC) since 1995. He received his B.A. and M.A in Economics from the University of Missouri – Kansas City and received his Ph.D.

Nikolaos Karagiannis is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, a Professor of Economics at Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina, an invited visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, England; and the co-editor of American Review of Political Economy. He has published extensively in the areas of economic development, public sector economics, and

Sara Hsu is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz.  Dr. Hsu specializes in Chinese economic development, informal finance, and shadow banking.  She has published one of the only English language books on the topic of Chinese informal finance,

Michael F. Hoexter is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He received his bachelors from Yale University and Ph.D. in psychology from University of Michigan.  With a long-time interest in sustainability, Dr. Hoexter is a scholar-practitioner and policy analyst in the area of energy and climate policy, working both in the

John F. Henry is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University. He is the author of two books, and has published over twenty articles in refereed journals such as History of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Issues, Review of Social Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal of the History

John T. Harvey is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University (TCU). He earned his PhD at the University of Tennessee in 1987 and has been at TCU ever since. His main areas of research are international economics, contemporary schools of thought, and macroeconomics.