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Dr. Thomas Palley was a Bernard L. Schwartz Economic Growth Fellow based in Washington, DC, until 2011.

Prior to joining New America, Dr. Palley was the Chief Economist with the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He was Director of the Open Society Institute’s Globalization Reform Project, and before that he was Assistant Director of Public Policy at the AFL-CIO.

Dr. Palley is the author of Plenty of Nothing: The Downsizing of the American Dream and the Case for Structural Keynesianism (Princeton University Press) and Post Keynesian Economics (Macmillan Press). He has published in numerous academic journals, and written for The Atlantic Monthly, American Prospect, and The Nation magazine. A list of publications prior to his time at the New America Foundation can be found on his personal website at www.thomaspalley.com.

He holds a B.A. degree from Oxford University, and a M.A. degree in International Relations and Ph.D. in Economics, both from Yale University.