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  • Ying Chen

    Associate Professor of Economics

    Email
    yingc@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - 6 East 16th Street

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    Ying Chen

    Profile

    **On leave Fall 2024-Spring 2025**

    Ying Chen is Associate Professor of Economics at the New School and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work explores the contradictions within capitalism and how they exhibit themselves. Topics she has studied include economic development, labor, and climate change, with a special focus on the global south. She has published in journals including Environment and Development Economics, Economics and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Labor and Society, Review of Radical Political Economics, International Review of Applied Economics, and so on. She was also consulted for the working of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Report 2021.

    Degrees Held

    Ph.D. Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago
    B.A. Economics, Shanghai International Studies University

    Research Interests

    Economic Development, Political Economy, Chinese Economy

    Current Courses

    Directed Dissertation Study
    GECO 7991, Summer 2025

    Mentored Research
    GECO 6993, Summer 2025

    Future Courses

    Comparative Economic Systems
    GECO 5125, Fall 2025

    Directed Dissertation Study
    GECO 7991, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    Economic Development 1
    GECO 6290, Spring 2026

    Environment & Development
    LECO 3031, Spring 2026

    Ind Senior Project
    LECO 4990, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    Independent Study
    LECO 3950, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    Independent Study
    GECO 6990, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    Mentored Research
    GECO 6993, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    The Global South Today
    LECO 3038, Fall 2025

    Past Courses

    Directed Dissertation Study
    GECO 7991, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

    Ind Senior Project
    LECO 4990, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

    Independent Study
    LECO 3950, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

    Independent Study
    GECO 6990, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

    Mentored Research
    GECO 6993, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

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