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Benjamin C. Wilson

Benjamin C. Wilson is a research scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Cortland where he teaches courses in microeconomics, comparative economic systems, urban economics, a well as a political economy of the Adirondacks class that takes place at the university’s camp on Raquette Lake. He received his Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in economics and social science research methodology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His research interests include environmental health, food systems, and modern monetary theory. His published work has appeared in the American Review of Political Economy, Forum for Social Economics, Intergenerational Responsibility in the 21st Century (Ed. Julia Puaschunder), Boundary2online, Public Seminar, and Monthly Review Online.

Research Scholar and Assistant Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Cortland

Publications

The Uni Currency Project: Democratic Finance for Public Higher Education After COVID-19

This paper describes a novel policy mechanism for revitalizing U.S. public higher education in the age of COVID-19.

Monetary Policy for Full Employment and Price Stability

It is frequently assumed in political discourse that the pursuit of full employment is a fiscal policy matter. However, as the 40th anniversary of the Humphrey-Hawkins Act approaches, an alternative monetary policy approach is proposed that is guided by two seemingly...

The Monsters Within: Capital, Cancer, and Crisis

This paper critiques Marx’s use of the vampire as a metaphor for capital, by suggesting that cancer offers political economists a more appropriate lexicon to describe capitalism’s exploitative and destructive nature. This argument, however, is not limited to a metaphorical narrative.

Envisioning Provisioning: Forgiveness and the Possibility of Peace

“From this heterodox economist’s perspective, [the refugee crisis] is an opportunity to refresh and renew a meaningful discussion of value, through exploration of the uncharted policy space of sovereign currency issue. We do not need to envision what will happen with further escalation of war."
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