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Bard College, author of Case for a Job Guarantee
Pavlina R. Tcherneva is an associate professor of economics at Bard College. She specializes in Modern Monetary Theory and public policy.
She previously taught at Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Missouri–Kansas City. From 2000 to 2006, she served as Associate Director for economic analysis at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, where she remains a senior research associate. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, and since July 2007 she has been a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute. Tcherneva’s book, The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity, 2020), is a timely guide to the benefits of one of the most transformative public policies being discussed today. She has collaborated with policymakers from the United States and abroad on designing and evaluating employment programs. She also worked with Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign after her research on inequality garnered national attention.
Her research focuses on monetary and fiscal policies under sovereign currency regimes and the macroeconomic effects of alternative stabilization programs. In 2012, Tcherneva received the Association for Social Economics’ Helen Potter Prize for the best paper in the Review of Social Economy.
Ms. Tcherneva is a two-time grantee from the Institute for New Economic Thinking for her work on rethinking fiscal policy, job creation, and public goods provisioning. She holds a BA in mathematics and economics from Gettysburg College and an MA and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Missouri–Kansas City.