RICHARD EASTERLIN (University of Southern California), is a leading
economic historian, with specialities in economic growth and population
growth. He recently published a major historical study entitled Growth
Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective (1996).
He has also served as an editor of the Journal of Economic History.

ELMAR ALTVATER (Free University of Berlin), is one of the top political
economists in Europe, with more than a dozen books on a wide range of
subjects, including the world economic system, crisis theory, theory of
the state, the Third World debt crisis, and global environmental
constraints. Five of his books have been translated into English,
including The Future of the Market (1993). He is also currently the
co-editor of the journal Prokla.

AMARENDRA BHATTACHARYA (World Bank) is a Senior Advisor in the division of
development economics at the World Bank, and has recently been a senior
member of the Bank team focusing on the Asian crisis. He has also
co-authored a recent book entitled The Road to Financial
Integration: Private Capital Flows to Developing Countries (1997).

BARBARA STALLINGS (U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America) is an Mount
Holyoke alum! and is now the Director of ECLA in Santiago, Chile. She has
published numerous books on development economics, especially on Latin
America. Her most recent book is Global Change, Regional Response: The
New International Context of Development (1995).

NANCY BIRDSALL (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) is a Senior
Associate for CEIP, where she directs economics programs. She is the
author of numerous publications on labor market, human resources, and
other development issues. Her most recent book is entitled Beyond
Trade-Offs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America (1998),
which is a study of the relationship between economic growth and income
distribution.

PATRICK MASON (University of South Florida) is a leading authority on
interracial economic inequality in the U.S. His recent work has examined
the long-run historical trends of black/white wage differentials. His
recent work has also included gender inequality. He has also served on
the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political Economics.

DAVID COLANDER (Middlebury College) is a prolific author of dozens of
books and articles, mostly on macroeconomics and economic methodology.
He is also the author of several popular textbooks. One of his recent
collection of essays is entitled Why Aren't Economists as Important as
Garbagemen?. He has also been editor of the Eastern Economic Journal, and
is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

DIANA STRASSMAN (Rice University) is a leading feminist economist and is
the founding editor of the new journal Feminist Economics. She is also
specializes in economic methodology and especially the insights of the
feminist perspective for economic methodology. Several of her recent
articles have characterized economics as "story-telling".