Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and a founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 1981. Epstein has written articles on numerous topics including financial regulation, alternative approaches to central banking for employment generation and poverty reduction, and capital account management and capital flows. He has worked with numerous UN organizations, including the United Nations Development Program and the International Labor Organization in the areas of Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policy and Human Development Impact Assessments of Trade Policies in Madagascar, South Africa, Ghana, Cambodia and Mongolia, and with UN-DESA on developing alternatives to inflation targeting monetary policy. Most recently his research has focused on the impacts of financialization (Gerald Epstein, ed. Financialization and the World Economy, Elgar Press, 2005) and alternatives to inflation targeting (Gerald Epstein and Erinc Yeldan, eds. Beyond Inflation Targeting: Assessing the Impacts and Policy Alternatives, Elgar Press, 2009.)
