Economics
Economists at UC Berkeley are among the most influential in the world, with expertise spanning from inflation and tariffs to inequality, tax policy and cryptocurrency. Below are some of Berkeley’s top economists, most of them with deep media experience.
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Director of the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at Berkeley, professor of economics and law
Tax policy, state and federal budget policy, inequality. Econ Focus, The New York Times, KCBS radio
Professor of business and public policy
General economic issues, inflation, tariffs and international trade. SiliconValley.com, Newsweek, BBC. Speaker of Italian and English.
Faculty director of the Energy Institute at Berkeley Haas, professor of business administration and public policy
Energy economics, electricity pricing, gasoline pricing, economic policy for climate change. Politico, Climate One, AZPM/The Buzz, LAist/Airtalk
Coordinator of the Climate and Society Center, professor emerita of economics
Policies to create a sustainable, equitable economy, California climate equity policies, just transition from fossil fuel economy to clean energy economy, Buddhist economics. NBC Bay Area, Patch.com
Professor of economics
General economic issues, economic policy, inflation, tariffs and international trade, public finance and tax policy, economic history. New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, Business Insider
Professor of economics
Inflation, macroeconomics, tariffs and international trade, economics of Ukraine. Econbrowser, CEPR, UC Berkeley News. Speaker of Ukrainian and English.
Professional faculty in business and public policy
Globalization 2.0, 4th industrial revolution, AI in emerging technology, cryptocurrency, climate and clean technology, technology in geopolitics and geoeconomics, cybersecurity. SiliconValley.com, Voice of America, L’Express, New York Times. Speaker of French, German and English.
Co-director of the Green Economy Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center
Climate change and the economy, energy transitions and labor markets, labor and climate policy. KQED, Sacramento Bee, Financial Times, Legal Planet
Professor of business and public policy, former dean of the Berkeley Haas School of Business
General economic issues, inflation, tariffs and international trade. Axios, Financial Times, Times Higher Education, McKinsey Quarterly. Speaker of French and English.
Director of the Low-Wage Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center
General economic topics, low-wage work, employment, unemployment, wages, labor, unions. CalMatters, The New York Times, Associated Press. Speaker of Spanish and English.
Professor of finance and economics
Behavioral economics, inflation, capital markets. Reuters, Econ Focus/Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, KQED, The New York Times. Speaker of German, Italian and English.
Professor of economics emeritus; senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
Tariffs and international trade, international economics, international economic policy. Financial Times, BBC, Project Syndicate, Vox EU, The Economic Times (India)
Professor of political science, director of the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative
Economic class, inequality and populism in contemporary American politics. Washington Monthly, The New Yorker, UC Berkeley News, The New York Times
Professor of economics, co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics
Minimum wage, economics of racial inequality, labor economics, high-performance workplaces, union-management cooperation. Newsweek, The Atlantic, New York Times, KQED
Professor of business and public policy
General economic issues, regulation, politics and economic policy. Fortune, Regulatory Review, ProMarket. Speaker of Italian and English.