About me

I am a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My research encompasses political economy, economic history, the history of economic thought, and macroeconomics.

My forthcoming dissertation is titled The Political Economy of Crisis: Essays on Inflation, Real Wages, and Economic Planning, which provides an institutional analysis of the pandemic-era inflation, challenges the notion that real wages rose during the pandemic, and explores the experience of central planning of the “commanding heights” of the U.S. economy by the Roosevelt Administration during World War II. I’ve also published research, for instance, on the ultimate beneficiaries of record oil and gas profits as inflation rippled across the globe in 2022 (hint: it wasn’t the majority of the human population), and on rates of profit across industries and countries.

My research has been cited across major media outlets, and I am committed to putting forward analysis through the lens of political economy that investigates the world as it actually exists.