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Susan Schroeder graduated with her PhD from the New School for Social Research in New York, where she trained with Duncan Foley, Anwar Shaikh, John Eatwell, Edward Nell, the late David Gordon, Thomas Palley, and the late Robert Heilbroner. Her current areas of research are international financial crises, business cycles, and financial fragility and how these areas are linked to the country and sovereign risk assessments and policy design. She has taught at the Graduate Faculty of the New School, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science of Art in New York, the University of Applied Science in Bremen, Germany, and Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Prior to entering academia, Susan worked on Wall Street as the supervisor of special projects for the market research firm Information Resources, Inc. Susan has been visiting scholar to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, the Mises Institute at Auburn University (Alabama), the JFK Institute (Berlin), and Wolfson College, Cambridge University, where she is a lifetime member. In 2021 Susan became a consultant for the United Nations, supporting ECLAC, CEPAL (Santiago, Chile), UNCTAD (Geneva, Switzerland) and DESA (New York).
Political Economy, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS)
Research interests
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3229