John Sarich

Adjunct Professor

John Sarich, Ph.D, has been teaching in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2001.  His areas of expertise are Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, International Trade and Economic Development, Economic History, the History of Economic Thought, Policy Analysis, Econometric Modelling and Data Science. 

Courses taught at Cooper include:
SS-334: Microeconomics
SS-347: Macroeconomics 
SS-345: Understanding Capitalism--Competition, Conflict, Crises and Change (“The Raymond G. Brown Memorial Seminar”)
HSS-4 Core: The Modern Context.  “What is a Radical? What is a Liberal? What is a Conservative:  Reading Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes”     

Professor Sarich has also taught at the New School for Social Research and at John Jay College of the City University of New York.  

Dr. Sarich's research has appeared in the Review of Political Economy, the Review of Radical Political Economy and he contributed a chapter to the volume: Alternative Theories of Competition: Challenges to the Orthodoxy. His current research addresses: Statistical estimation of long-term processes in economic history; the relationship between public investment and capital accumulation, and; alternative methods in economic pedagogy.  

Dr. Sarich has 30 years of economic research experience in the public sector.  He is currently a Senior Economist and Tax Policy Analyst with the New York City Department of Finance, Office of Tax Policy. He previously held appointments at the New York City Council Finance Division, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance and the Brookings Institution.

Dr. Sarich received his Ph.D in Economics from the New School For Social Research.
 

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