Philip Harvey is associate professor of law and economics at Rutgers School of Law–Camden. He received a B.A. from Yale College, a Ph.D. in economics from New School for Social Research, New York, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, he was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and practiced labor and employment law with the New York City law firm of Debevoise and Plimpton. He has been a visiting professor of law and economics at the Yale School of Organization and Management, a visiting professor of law and political science at City College of New York, and a visiting professor of public policy at Sarah Lawrence College. Harvey’s research focuses on public policy responses to the problem of joblessness. He is the author of Securing the Right to Employment (Princeton University Press, 1989) and coauthor (with T. Marmor and J. Mashaw) of America’s Misunderstood Welfare State (Basic Books, 1990). His recent articles include “Benchmarking the Right to Work” in Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement and Policy Issues (A. Minkler and S. Hartel, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming); “Funding A Job Guarantee,” International Journal of the Environment, Workplace, and Employment, Vol. 2, 2006; “The Right to Work and Basic Income Guarantees: Competing or Complementary Goals?” Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 2, 2005; and “Aspirational Law,” Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 52, 2004. Harvey is currently working on a book on the trajectory of American social welfare policy in the 21st century.