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Thomas Michl (Tom), Professor of Economics


Contact Information

Office: Economics
Current Courses
Mail: 230 Persson Hall
Phone: (315)228-7526
Email: Tmichl@colgate.edu

Department Affiliation

Economics

Teaching & Research

Title
Professor of Economics (1983)

Degree
BA Oberlin College 1973; MA, PhD New School for Social Research 1983, 1984

Specialties
Macroeconomics, political economy, labor economics

Interests
Economic growth and income distribution, productivity and technical change, public debt, minimum wage legislation

Selected Publications
  • "Capitalists, Workers, and Social Security," Metroeconomica, forthcoming;
  • "Capitalists, Workers, and the Burden of Debt," Review of Political Economics, forthcoming;
  • "Comment on 'Transition to Fully Funded Pension SChemes: A Non-Orthodox Critism,' by Sergio Cesaratto," Cambridge Journal of Economics, forthcoming;
  • (with Duncan Foley) "Crossing Hubbert's Peak: Portfolio Effects in a Growth Model with Exhaustible Resources," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, forthcoming;
  • "Pasinetti Paradox, "International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, Macmillan, forthcoming;
  • Book Review of Pension reform and Economic Theory: A Non-Orthodox Analysis by Sergio Cesaratto, in Review of Political Economics, forthcoming;
  • Macroeconomic Theory: A Short Course (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2002);
  • Growth and Distribution with Duncan K. Foley (Harvard University Press, 1999);
  • Co-editor, The Imperiled Economy, Books I and II, (1987, 1988);
  • Articles in The Review of Economics and Statistics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, The Review of Radical Political Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, Science & Society, Monthly Review, International Reivew of Applied Economics, Dollars and Sense, and The Albany Times Union; contributor to several books


Distinctions
2001 Otto Eckstein Prize from the Eastern Economic Association (for the best paper to appear in the Eastern Economic Journal from 1998-2000); Economic Advisory Council of the Fiscal Policy Institute