Bio

Edward Wolff received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1974 and is professor of economics at New York University, where he has taught since 1974, and a Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as Managing Editor of the Review of Income and Wealth from 1987 to 2004 and was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York (2003-04), President of the Eastern Economics Association (2002-2003), a council member of the International Input-Output Association (1995-2003), and a council member of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (1987-2004) and has acted as a consultant with the Economic Policy Institute, the World Bank, the United Nations, the WIDER Institute, and Mathematica Policy Research. His principal research areas are productivity growth and income and wealth distribution. He is the author (or co-author) of: Growth, Accumulation, and Unproductive Activity: An Analysis of the Post-War U.S. Economy, (1987); Productivity and American Leadership: The Long View (1989); The Information Economy: The Implications of Unbalanced Growth (1989); Competitiveness, Convergence, and International Specialization (1993); TOP HEAVY: A Study of Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America (1995, 1996, 2002), Economics of Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination, (1997), Retirement Insecurity: The Income Shortfalls Awaiting the Soon-to-Retire (2002), Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, and Consequences (2003), and Retirement Income:  The Crucial Role of Social Security (2005).