Christian E.
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Christian E. Weller is a senior fellow at American Progress and a professor of public policy at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His area of expertise includes retirement income security, macroeconomics, money and banking, and international finance. He is also a research scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute and an institute fellow at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Gerontology Institute. Prior to joining the Center, he was on the research staff at the Economic Policy Institute, where he remains a research associate.

Christian has also worked at the Center for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn in Germany; under the Department of Public Policy of the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C.; and served in the banking sector in Germany, Belgium, and Poland. He is a respected academic with more than 100 academic and popular publications. His academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Development Studies, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Aging and Social Policy, and the Journal of Economic Issues, among others. His popular writings have been published in The New York Times, USA Today, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution.

He co-authored with E. Wolff the book, Retirement Income: The Crucial Role of Social Security and was a co-editor of Employee Pensions: Policies, Problems and Possibilities with T. Ghilarducci. In 2006, he was awarded the Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association. In 2007, Christian was elected to the board of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, one of the country’s largest associations for professionals in the fields of labor and employment relations.

His work is frequently cited in the press and he is often a guest on national TV and radio programs. Christian holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Corporate Governance and Workers: Why Today’s Economy Fails Working Families—and What To Do About It Article

Corporate Governance and Workers: Why Today’s Economy Fails Working Families—and What To Do About It

Andy Green, Christian E. Weller, and Malkie Wall explain how collective bargaining, competition, tax fairness, and corporate long-termism can help American capitalism shift back from Wall Street to Main Street.

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Andy Green, Christian E. Weller, Malkie Wall

Continuing Our Resilient Economic Recovery Testimony

Continuing Our Resilient Economic Recovery

Christian E. Weller testifies before the Joint Revenue Hearing, House and Senate Ways and Means Committees, at the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts.

Christian E. Weller

Working Against Economic Headwinds Testimony

Working Against Economic Headwinds

Christian E. Weller testifies before the Massachusetts legislature to discuss U.S. economic recovery and its effect on the Massachusetts economy.

Christian E. Weller

Sensible, Please Meet Ludicrous Article

Sensible, Please Meet Ludicrous

Debate on retirement income security deteriorates into a fight between sensible policy solutions and ludicrous economic claims, writes Christian E. Weller.

Christian E. Weller

Model Retirement Savings Article

Model Retirement Savings

Christian E. Weller testifies on model retirement savings plans—how public sector pension plans can provide efficient and sustainable savings.

Christian E. Weller

Bush’s ‘Few and Rich Owners’-ship Society Article

Bush’s ‘Few and Rich Owners’-ship Society

As New York City braces for the Republican convention, Republican strategists are trying to design an economic program that resonates with the electorate. And once again, they seem to be pushing for – guess what?! – tax cuts: making the president's tax cuts permanent and creating an "ownership society" through tax cuts for people to put money away for retirement, health insurance, education, and other more nebulous purposes.

Christian E. Weller

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