1998-1999 Professor of the Year Award 

Dr. Gary Dymski

Dr. Fischer Awards Dr. Gary Dymski (click to enlarge) This award recognizes outstanding faculty who participate in the University Honors Program.  Students may nominate their favorite Honors professor to be the UHP Professor of the Year.  Official nomination forms are available in the Honors office.

FIELD

Money and Banking; Political Economy; Macroeconomics

EDUCATION

1975 B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Urban Studies
1977 M.P.A., Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Public Budgeting
1983 M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Economics
1987 PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Economics

 HONORS

1990 Omicron Delta Epsilon Award for Excellence in Teaching, USC
1985-86 Leo Model Research Fellowship, The Brookings Institution
1983-84 University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts
1975 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania

 NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

1979-81 Staff Director and Fiscal Advisor, Democratic Caucus, Indiana State Senate
1977-79 Economic Analyst, Legal Services Organization of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana
1975-77 Senior Research Analyst, Office of Institutional Research, Syracuse University

 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

1995-98 Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside
1991-95 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside
1992 Visiting Lecturer, Bangladesh Institute for Development Studies, Dhaka
1986-91 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Southern California  

PROFESSIONAL SINCE 1992

• Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute, Washington DC, 1993-present.

• Editorial Board, International Review of Applied Economics. Elected October 1993.

• Editorial Board, GeoForum. Elected July 1995.

• Member, Working Group on Engendering Macroeconomics, United Nations Development Project, 1997-present.

• Member, Committee on Research, Faculty Senate, University of California, Riverside, 1996-present.

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, 1993-96.

GRANTS & CONTRACTS, 1992-1998

• 1996-98 Planning grant from Pacific Rim Program of the University of California, for a collaborative comparative study of housing finance, financial globalization, and the social contract in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the US

• 1998-99 (Pending) Grant applications are pending at the Japan Foundation, NYC, and the PacificRim Program for the collaborative research project described above

• 1996-97 Contract with Consumers Union to evaluate effects of banking mergers

• 1995-96 Contract with seven cities in Los Angeles County to analyze home-loan lending and demographic data, as a component of studies of impediments to fair-housing choice

• 1994-95 Grant from Rosenberg Foundation to investigate the relationship between banking innovation and credit availability in Los Angeles

• 1992-98 Faculty intramural research grants from the Academic Senate, University of California, Riverside

SELECTED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS PUBLISHED SINCE 1992

   1."Economic Polarization and US Policy Activism," International Review of Applied Economics. 10(1), January 1996: 65-84.

   2."Deciphering Minsky's Wall Street Paradigm," Journal of Economic Issues 31(2), June 1997: 501-508.

   3."Basic Choices in Keynesian Models of Money and Credit." In Money in Motion: The Circulation and Post Keynesian Approaches. Edited by Edward Nell and Ghislain Deleplace. Macmillan, 1996.

   4."Money as a 'Time Machine' in the New Financial World," in Keynes, Money and Exchange Rates: Essays in Honor of Paul Davidson, ed. by Philip Arestis. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1997.

   5."Economic Polarization and US Policy Activism," International Review of Applied Economics. 10(1), January 1996: 65-84.

   6."Credit Flows to Cities," with John Veitch, in Reclaiming Prosperity: A Blueprint for Progressive Economic Reform, ed. by Jeff Faux and Todd Schafer. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

   7."Financial Transformation and the Metropolis: Booms, Busts, and Banking in Los Angeles," with John Veitch, Environment and Planning A. 28(7), July 1996: 1233-1260.

   8."Financing the Future in Los Angeles: Great Depression to 21st Century," with John Veitch, in Rethinking Los Angeles, ed. by Michael Dear and Eric Schockman. Sage Publications, 1996.

   9."On Krugman's Model of Economic Geography," Geoforum 27(4), November 1996: 439-452.

  10."Business Strategy and Access to Capital in the Inner City," Review of Black Political Economy 24(2-3), Winter 1996: 51-65.

  11."The Theory of Credit-Market Redlining and Discrimination: An Exploration," Review of Black Political Economy 23(3), Winter 1995: 37-74.

  12."Exploitation and Racial Inequality: The US Case," Research in Political Economy. Volume 15, 1996: 111-138.

  13."Housing Finance in the Age of Globalization: From Social Housing to Life-Cycle Risk," with Dorene Isenberg, in Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy, edited by Dean Baker, Gerald Epstein and Robert Pollin. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

  14."Social Efficiency and the 'Market Revolution' in U.S. Housing Finance," with Dorene Isenberg, in The Welfare State System in Japan and the United States, edited by Shinya Imura, Takashi Nakahama, and Hiroshi Shibuya. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Hyoron Sha, 1997 (in Japanese).

EDITED VOLUMES SINCE 1992

1. Co-Editor with Bob Pollin of New Directions in Monetary Macroeconomics: Essays in the Tradition of Hyman P. Minsky. University of Michigan Press. Published in April 1994.

2. Co-editor with Gerald Epstein (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Robert Pollin of Transforming the U.S. Financial System: An Equitable and Efficient Structure for the 21st Century. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. Published October 1993.

VOLUMES

1. The Bank Merger Wave: The Economic Causes and Social Consequences of Financial Consolidation. Draft manuscript completed July 1998. Publisher: M. E. Sharpe. Forthcoming in January 1999.

POLICY STUDIES SINCE 1991

1. Taking it to the Bank: Race, Poverty, and Credit in Los Angeles. Co-authored with John Veitch and Michelle White. Los Angeles: Western Center on Law and Poverty. Released by Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles on October 6, 1991. Printed in United States Senate, Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Report on the Status of the Community Reinvestment Act: Views and Recommendations. Vol. II of II, November 1992 (Washington, DC: USGPO).

2. "A Critique of Supply Side Economics, World&I 8(2), February 1993.

3. "Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Restructuring," co-authored with Robert Pollin, Gerry Epstein, and Jamie Galbraith, released by the Economic Policy Institute, June 1992.

4. "A Report Card on the Greenspan Fed," co-authored with Robert Pollin, Gerry Epstein, and Jamie Galbraith, released by the Economic Policy Institute, February 1992.

5. "The Banking Crisis, the RTC, and the Community Crisis," testimony presented to the national advisory board of the Resolution Trust Corporation, Washington DC, March 18, 1994.

6. "Analysis of a Living-Wage Ordinance in the City of Los Angeles," for the Los Angeles City Council, presented before the Council on October 9, 1996.

7. "Bank Mergers and the Structure of US Banking Markets: The causes and consequences of bank consolidation   in the 1990s," A report to the Consumers Union, July 1997.