Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.A., Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Personal Website:  markpaulecon.com

Mark Paul is a political economist working in the areas of inequality, environmental economics, and applied microeconomics. His research is focused on understanding the causes and consequences of inequality and assessing and designing remedies to address it.

Professor Paul is also involved in economic policy in the United States and is currently a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, The Atlantic, Vox, The American Prospect, The Nation, The Hill, and Jacobin, among other publications. Prior to coming to New College he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.

Courses:
Political Economy of Food and Agriculture
Economics of Race, Gender, and Discrimination

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Paul, Mark. 2018. “Community Supported Agriculture in the United States: Social,Ecological, and Economic Benefits to Farming.” Journal of Agrarian Change, DOI: 10.1111/joac.12280.
• Paul, Mark, William Darity Jr., Darrick Hamilton, and Khaing Zaw. 2018. “A Path toEnding Poverty by Way of Ending Unemployment: A Federal Job Guarantee.” The Russel Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4(3): 43-63.
• Paul, Mark and Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji. 2018. “Small Farms Smaller Plots: Land Size, Fragmentation, and Productivity in Ethiopia.” The Journal of Peasant Studies, 45(4): 757-775.
• Paul, Mark and Anita Milman. 2017. “A Question of ‘Fit’: Local Perspectives on Top-Down Flood Mitigation Policies in Vermont.” The Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 60(12): 2217-2233.

Reports

• Paul, Mark. 2018. “Don’t Fear the Robots: Why Automation Doesn’t Mean the End of Work.” The Roosevelt Institute.
• Darity, William Jr., Darrick Hamilton, Mark Paul, Alan Aja, Anne Price, Antonio Moore, and Caterina Chiopris. 2018. “What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap.” Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
• Paul, Mark, William Darity, Jr., and Darrick Hamilton. 2018. “A Policy to Achieve”  Permanent Full Employment—The Federal Job Guarantee.” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Kijakazi, Kilolo, Rachel Marie Brooks Atkins, Mark Paul, Anne E. Price, Darrick
• Hamilton, and William Darity, Jr. 2016. “The Color of Wealth in the Nation’s Capital.” The Urban Institute.
• Paul, Mark. 2015. “Community Supported Agriculture: A Model for the Farmer and the Community?” The Future Economy Project, Ecotrust.