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Steven Pressman is a Part-Time Faculy in the Economics Department at The New School for Social Research. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ.

Pressman served as co-editor of the Review of Political Economy for over a quarter century, as Associate Editor and Book Review Editor of the Eastern Economic Journal for over two decades, as President of the Association for Social Economics in 2020, and as Treasurer of the Eastern Economic Association for over two decades..

Dr. Pressman received his Ph.D. in 1983 from the New School for Social Research, writing his dissertation under the supervision of Robert L. Heilbroner.. He has published around 200 articles in refereed journals and as book chapters, and has authored, or edited 20 books, including Women in the Age of Economic Transformation (Routledge, 1994), Economics and Its Discontents (Edward Elgar, 1998), A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics (Routledge, 2001), Alternative Theories of the State (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006), 50 Major Economists, 3rd ed. (Routledge, 2013), Leading Contemporary Economists (Routledge, 2008), and Debates in Monetary Macroeconomics (Palgrave/Macmillan 2022). .

He is a frequent contributor to newspapers, such as the Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, and San Francisco Chroniclel, and to popular periodicals such as Challenge Magazine, Dollars & Sense, and the Washington Spectator. 

His main areas of research are poverty and income distribution, macroeconomics, espeicallygovernment tax and spending policies (including Social Security, education financing and spending, health care policy, and anti-poverty policy), and the history of economic thought.

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Awards And Honors

Alfred Sloan Foundation Grant, 2023-2026, to write a history of the Eastern Economic Association and evaluate its success in promoting inclusion and diversity. Co-PI (with Sarah Small).