David R. Howell
David R. Howell is a professor of economics and public policy at the New School’s Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment. He is an affiliated member of the New School’s economics department, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (The New School), and a Research Scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute (U-Mass Amherst). His research focuses on social policy and labor market outcomes.
Inequality
The Lousy Job Economy: Young People Bear the Brunt of a Long-Term Decline in American Job Quality
A new study finds a steady decline in the quality of American jobs between 1979 to 2017, even as GDP has grown. This decline...
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Antitrust and Competition
Is there a “California Effect” in Data Privacy Law? Why the EU is Not the World’s Privacy Cop
It is common lore in data privacy law and other fields that stringent regulatory standards (such as the ones introduced in the...
Coronavirus
Governments Were Forced to Restrict Civil Liberties to Deal With Covid-19. More Flexible Constitutions Could Prevent That from Becoming the New Normal
A new paper argues that exploitation of gaps within democratic constitutions during emergencies, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, has the potential to...
Corporate Governance
The Social Responsibility of Business Includes Profits
Profits these days are often seen as a dirty word, but it is wrong to demonize profits. A company’s responsibility is not...
Academic Capture
Academic Gatekeepers, Real and Imagined, Are Threatening the Credibility of the Field of Political Finance
One objective of political finance is to hold power to account. However, gatekeeping, both direct and indirect, is keeping important work from...
Academic Capture
A Call for Comments: Have You Been Affected by Academic Gatekeeping?
On Friday, ProMarket published a piece by Renée Adams about the impact of academic gatekeeping in the political finance. Do you have...
Antitrust and Competition
How Big Data Fuels Big Tech’s Anticompetitive Conduct and Gatekeeping Power
Achieving a truly open internet is only possible through robust online competition free from the control of today’s digital gatekeepers like Facebook...
Antitrust and Competition
The Corporate Power Narrative: How Corporations Benefit from Economic Globalization
In an excerpt from their new book, Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters, Anthea Roberts and...
