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Howard Wachtel

Professor of Economics, Emeritus

 Roper 205
Tel: (202) 362-9273
Fax: (202) 362-9792
wachtel@american.edu

Research Interests

Globalization in the world economy and international money, labor and the American economy, economic transformation in the planned economies of east-central Europe, and the economies of the European Union. Recent publications focus on tax distortions in the global economy, international water markets, the European Union and the EURO, and the history of wall Street.

Teaching Interests

The economics of globalization, international economics, labor economics, and the economies of the European Union.

Professional Activities

Professor Wachtel received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, MA from the University of Connecticut and B.S. from Temple University. In the academic year 1999-2000 he was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Berlin and Academic Visitor at the Truman Institute of Hebrew University (Jerusalem). He delivered fourteen lectures in eight different countries during that year. He has also held visiting faculty appointments at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University (Great Britain), the American University of Paris, and in the United States at Cornell University and the University of California, Riverside. The author of four books (translated into three languages) and more than 70 scholarly articles, Dr. Wachtel also appears frequently on major media and has published in such newspapers as the New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Der Taggesspiegel, and the Los Angeles Times. He was the founding Director of American University's Center for Israeli Studies.

Awards

McKeever Institute of Economic Policy Analysis Prize for There Are Alternatives Project for article, "Tax Distortion in the Global Economy" (2002) and adviser to a commission on global taxes established by President Jacques Chirac of France (2004).

Recent Publications

  • Street of Dreams. Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century. (London: Pluto Press, 2003 and in U.S.: University of Michigan Press). Chinese and Bulgarian translations.
  • "Water Conflicts & International Water Markets," eds. Hillel Shuval, & Hasan Dwiek, Israel-Palestine Water Issues: From Conflict to Cooperation (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2007); also in: Proceedings of the 2nd Israeli-Palestinian International Conference: Water for Life in the Middle East, eds. Hillel Shuval, & Hasan Dwiek (Jerusalem: Israel/Palestine Center for Research & Information, 2006), vol. I, pp.73-86.
  • "Wall Street's Early Days," New York Archives (Winter 2005), pp. 18-21.
  • "The Intersection of Food and Water Security: A Case Study of the Near East," 2002
  • "Financial Stability and the Case for Tobin Taxes," FOMC Alert, v.5, n.5 (August 21, 2001), pp.2-3.
  • " "The Tobin Tax as Fund for Financial Stability," Politik und Gesellschaft (4/2001), pp. 363-365.
  • “Cartels and the Construction of the Economist’s Culture,” Crossing the Mainstream. Ethical and Methological Issues in Economics, eds., Amitava Krishna and Kenneth P. Jameson (Notre dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), pp. 297-311.
  • “A Ordem Comercial Mundial e o Inicio do Declino do Consenso de Washington,” Finistera-Revista de Reflexao e Critica (36-37, December 2000) pp 19-32.
  • "World Trade Order and the Beginning of the Decline of the Washington Consensus," Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft (3/2000), pp. 247-253; also in: Alfred Pfaller & Marika Lerch, eds., Challenges of Globalization: New Trends in International Politics and Society (N.Y.:Transaction Publishers, 2005)
  • "Tobin and Other Global Taxes," Review of International Political Economy, 7:2 (Summer 2000), pp. 335-352.
  • "The Mosaic of Global Taxes," Jan Nederveen Pieterse, ed., Global Futures. Shaping Globalization (London: Zed Books, 2000), pp.83-97.
  • "Ideas and Ideals: Horvat's Contributions to Twentieth Century Economic and Social Theory," Milica Uvalic and Vojmir Francevic, eds., Equality, Participation, Transition: Essays in Honor of Branko Horvat (London: Macmillan Press Ltd. and New York: St. Martins Press, 2000), pp. 1-15.
  • "Belastingen in een Mondiale Economie" ("Taxing Matters in a Global Economy") Geld Zonder Grenzen. Nieuwe Regels voor het Kapitaalverkeer (Amsterdam: Wiardi Beckman Stichting, 2000), pp. 107-124.

Articles in Magazines and Newspapers

  • "Une Monnaie Concurrente du Dollar? L'Euro ne fait pas Encore le Poids," Le Monde Diplomatique (October 2003), p. 5.
  • "Stock Plot: Corporate Scandals Reprise Wall Street Themes of Passion, Broken Hearts," Los Angeles Daily Journal (23 July 2003), p. 6.
  • "Financial Stability and the Case for Tobin Taxes," FOMC Alert, v. 5, n. 5 (August 21, 2001) pp. 2-3.

Works in Progress

  • Research on the development of international water markets and water as a tradeable commodity in the 21st century.

 

    

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