Edward Wolff


Edward Nathan Wolff is an American economist whose work concerns wealth and wealth disparity. He is a professor of economics at New York University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also works at the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being a department of the Levy Economics Institute, where he is in charge of their distribution of income and wealth program.

Education

His 1974 PhD dissertation at Yale University was entitled "Models of Production and Exchange in the Works of Adam Smith and David Ricardo".

Career

From 2003 to 2004 Edward Wolff was a visiting scholar with the Russell Sage Foundation.

Research

In 2007, he and Ajit Zacharias proposed a schema on the inequality of employment.
In a 2010 report by economist Richard Vedder and colleagues, Wolff is described as one of few academic scholars who have spoken out against problems in academia that have led to increasing number of college graduates being underemployed.

Editorial work

Edward Wolff is serving as an Associate Editor of the Structural Change and Economic Dynamics since 1989 and in the past held a position of a managing editor of the Review of Income and Wealth.

Publications

Edward Wolff is an author of numerous books, including:
  • Growth, Accumulation, and Unproductive Activity: An Analysis of the Postwar US Economy
  • Productivity and American Leadership: The Long View
  • Competitiveness, Convergence, and International Specialization
  • Top Heavy: A Study of the Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America
  • Retirement Insecurity: The Income Shortfalls Awaiting the Soon-to-Retire
  • Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, and Consequences
  • Retirement Income: The Crucial Role of Social Security
  • Does Education Really Help? Skill, Work, and Inequality
  • The Transformation of the American Pension System: Was It Beneficial for Workers?
  • Productivity Growth: Industries, Spillovers and Economic Performance
  • Productivity Convergence: Theory and Evidence, Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature Series
  • Inheriting Wealth in America: Future Boom or Bust?
  • ''A Century of Wealth in America''