For President-Elect

Paul Krugman has at least three jobs: he is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and, perhaps, his best-known job, as an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In recognition of his influence The Washington Monthly called him “the most important political columnist in America.”

In addition, Krugman’s reputation extends well beyond the U.S.The Asia Times recently called him “the Mick Jagger of political/economic punditry.” The Economist said he is “the most celebrated economist of his generation.” And, recently Mr Krugman received what is often called the European Pulitzer Prize, the Asturias Award given by the King of Spain.

Krugman is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 professional journal articles, many of them on international trade and finance. In recognition of his work, he received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association, an award given every two years to the top economist under the age of 40.

For the past 20 years, Krugman has written extensively for non-economists, including a monthly column, “The Dismal Science,” for the on-line magazine Slate. He has also been a columnist for Fortune and has published articles in The New Republic, ForeignPolicy, Newsweek and The New York Times Magazine, before joining The New York Times.

Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Krugman served on the faculty of MIT ; his last post was Ford International Professor of Economics. He also taught at Yale and Stanford Universities, and prior to that he was the senior international economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, under Ronald Reagan. (Yes, he served under a conservative President.)

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Group of Thirty. He has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, as well as to a number of countries including Portugal and the Philippines.

His most recent book, published in Fall 2007 is THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL. His previous book, THE GREAT UNRAVELING, was highly praised and became a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. Mr. Krugman and his wife, Robin Wells, have recently collaborated on two college textbooks -- Microeconomics published in October 2004, and Macroeconomics published in the September 2005.

Krugman and his wife live in the Princeton area with their two cats.

For Vice President

Duncan K. Foley graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in Mathematics in 1964, and received the Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1966. He has taught at M.I.T., Stanford, Barnard College of Columbia University, and since 1999 has been Leo Model Professor at the Economics Department of the New School for Social Research.

He has published in the fields of Public Finance, Macroeconomics, Money, Marxist Economic Theory, Economic Dynamics, Neo-Ricardian Economics, Growth Theory, and Complex Systems Theory and Economics.

Foley's recent work includes studies of the relation of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics to economics, complexity theory and Classical political economy ("Unholy Trinity: Labor, Capital and Land in the New Economy", Routledge, 2003), work on the foundations of statistical method, and Marx's theory of money. He published a book on the history of political economy and economics, "Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology", in 2007.

Foley has frequently attended EEA meetings and presented papers at EEA sessions, served on the Board of Directors from 2005-2007, and values the EEA for its open and diverse character and presentation of younger scholars' research.

For Positions on the Board Of Directors
(vote for two of the four candidates):

Mina Baliamoune-Lutz is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida (UNF). She holds an MBA and a Ph.D. in Economics from Northeastern University. She has been at UNF since fall 2000, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in macroeconomics, international trade, the global economy, and the Study Abroad (Brazil) course on the Political Economy and Business in Brazil. In spring 2007, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Economic Development, Boston University.

Her doctoral dissertation focused on applying fuzzy-set theory to assess compliance of the G-7 countries with summit commitments. Her recent research work is mainly on the effects of policy and institutional reforms in developing countries, with emphasis on Africa. She has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Her recent peer-reviewed journal publications are (or are forthcoming) in Applied Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Business Economics; Empirica, Journal of Policy Modelling, Review of Development Economics, Information Technology for Development, InternationalAdvances in Economic Research,African Development Review, and Journal of African Economies (Oxford). In addition, she has co-edited a book titled ‘Women in African Development: The Challenge of Globalization and Liberalization in the 21st Century’, published by Africa World Press/The Red Sea Press, New Jersey (2005), and contributed 3 articles in the Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Tom Leonard, ed., Routledge (2005).

Her empirical work on the effect of policy and institutional reforms has received significant recognition internationally. She is a regular contributor to the research themes debated at the United Nations World Institute of Development Economics (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki and to the United Nations Economic Conference on Africa. She is also a frequent Visiting Research Fellow at the International Center for Economic Research in Turin, Italy. Her Discussion, Research, and Working Papers are published at the University of Manchester (U.K.) Brooks World Poverty Institute (chaired by Nobel Laureate, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz), UNU-WIDER (Helsinki, Finland), ICER (Turin, Italy); Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI)-Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität Bonn (Germany); Department of Economics, UMASS-Amherst, and Boston University-Institute of Economic Development (Policy Papers).

In addition to being a participant and often session organizer and chair at several conferences in the United States and Puerto Rico (the American Economic Association/Allied social Sciences Association, the Eastern Economic association, the Western Economic Association conferences, and the Academy of International Business), she has taught courses, delivered keynote papers, presented papers, participated in workshops, and/or served as Research Fellow in over 20 foreign countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Austria, Finland, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Jamaica, Brazil, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Canada, Lebanon, Morocco, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Tunisia. She has also served as the organizer/co-organizer and chair of the Annual International Business Research Conference at the Coggin College of Business, UNF (jointly with Warsaw University Center for Europe ) for 7 years (2002-2008) and co-edited 6 conference proceeding volumes.

Dr. Baliamoune-Lutz has served as referee for World Development, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Review of Development Economics, Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Journal of African Economies (Oxford), Journal of African Development (NYU), Information Technology for Development, and the International Review of Economics & Finance . In addition, she currently serves as associate editor for the Journal of Businessand Behavioral Sciences (since 2003); Information Technology for Development (since 2004); and Journal of African Development (since April 2008); and has served as Vice-President of the African Finance and Economics Association for 3 years (2005- 2007).

William Spriggs is professor of economics at Howard University, where he is currently the chair of the department of economics. Bill earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his undergraduate degree from Williams College. His other academic positions have been at North Carolina A & T State University in Greensboro, and Norfolk State University in Virginia. He has taught microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics and labor relations. The focus of his academic research has been on low wage workers and racial disparities in earnings in particular and racial disparities in general. His academic research has appeared in various journals including the Review of Black Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Bill has also published in more general publications like Crisis, The American Prospect, and Black Enterprise and is a regular on National Public Radio’s “News & Notes.”

He is a past president of the National Economics Association, and a current member of the Policy Board of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Bill is a member and serves on the board of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Bill has spent a career in academia and in policy. He has served as an economist for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and held positions at various federal agencies. From 1998 to 2004 he was the Executive Director of the National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality, where he was responsible for editing the State of Black America 2000. Currently he chairs the health care trusts for UAW retirees of Ford Motor Company and also the Dana Corporation.

Karl Widerquist is a lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Reading. He holds two doctorates—one in Political Theory form Oxford (2006) and one in Economics from the City University of New York (1996). He is coauthor of Economics for Social Workers (Columbia University Press) and coeditor of the Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee (Ashgate). He is an editor of the journal Basic Income Studies, and he has published more than a dozen scholarly articles in journals such as Political Studies, the Eastern Economic Journal, Politics and Society, and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.