William Milberg is Dean and Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and Co-Director of the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School.

His research focuses on the relation between globalization, income distribution and economic growth, and the history and philosophy of economics.  He teaches graduate courses in international trade, political economy, the history of economic thought, and a seminar on the methodology of economics. His undergraduate courses include “Understanding Global Capitalism” and “The Making of Economic Society.”

His most recent book (with Deborah Winkler) is Outsourcing Economics:  Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development (Cambridge University Press).  A previous book, The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought (Cambridge University Press) was co-authored with the late Robert Heilbroner.  His paper with Peter Spiegler, “Methodenstriet 2013:  Historical perspective on the contemporary debate over how to reform economics,” won the award for best paper of 2013 in the Forum for Social Economics.

He serves on the Editorial Board of Politics and Society and The International Labour Review, and previously served on the steering committee of the group “Capturing the Gains from Globalization” based at the University of Manchester. He has worked as a consultant to the UNDP, the ILO, the UNCTAD and the World Bank and recently delivered the WTO Staff Lecture Series on global value chains and trade policy.