Councillor Biographies
Prof. Stephen A. Marglin, Economist, Harvard University
Professor Stephen Marglin holds the Walter S. Barker Chair in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Throughout his career Marglin has contributed to many aspects of economics; publishing books and papers about the foundations of economic theory such as the process of macroeconomic adjustment, benefit cost analysis and the relationship between growth and distribution. His recent work has focused on the foundational assumptions of economics and how these assumptions make community invisible to economists; this is also reflected in his recent book ‘The Dismal Science: How Thinking like an Economist Undermines Community’ (2008). In addition to research, writing and teaching, Marglin has been an advisor to governments, international agencies, non-for profit organizations as well as for-profit concerns in many different countries. He began his work in the 1960s as an advisor to the Indian Planning Commission.
