William Milberg is Dean and Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. His research focuses on the relation between globalization and income distribution, and the history and philosophy of economics. He has worked as a consultant to the UNDP, the ILO, the UNCTAD and the World Bank. His most recent book (with Deborah Winkler) is Outsourcing Economics: Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development (Cambridge University Press). A previous book, The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought (Cambridge University Press) was co-authored with the late Robert Heilbroner. He serves on the Editorial Board of Politics and Society and The International Review of Applied Economics.