Alejandro Reuss

Alejandro Reuss is an economist and historian. He holds degrees from Harvard University (B.A., Social Studies), Tufts University (M.A., History), and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (Ph.D., Economics). He is currently a Lecturer in the Labor Studies programs at UMass Boston and UMass Amherst, where he teaches courses on labor and the U.S. economy, U.S. labor history, labor and migration, and race, class, and gender. He has also taught economics and other social science courses at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Wheaton College (Mass.), Boston University, Simmons University, and Emerson College. Reuss is the author of Labor and the Global Economy (Economic Affairs Bureau, 2013) and The Power of Capital (Economics in Context Initiative, Boston University, 2020), among many other writings on political economy issues. He is a past co-editor and editorial board member at the Economic Affairs Bureau, publisher of Dollars & Sense magazine and Real World Economics textbooks. His research interests include labor economics and labor history, power structure research, U.S. and world economic history, development economics, environmental economics, game theory, and political economy.