Michael Szenberg

Michael Szenberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Pace University 's Lubin School of Business in New York, NY specializing in industry studies and intellectual biographies of economists. He graduated from Long Island University in 1963 (Summa Cum Laude) and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the City University of New York in 1970. He joined the faculty of Lubin in 1983 and is the chair of the Finance and Economics Department. He received the Irving Fisher Monograph Award in 1971 in which the Final Selection Board consisted of three Nobel laureates in economics, as well as the Schalkenbach Foundation Economic Research Award in 1987. He is also a recipient of many scholarly, teaching, and service awards and grants by universities and professional associations. Besides scholarly activities, he is a consultant to banks and manufacturing companies in the United States and abroad. From 1974 to 1977, he was consultant and Director of a research project for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Szenberg is the author and editor of fifteen books, including Eminent Economists: Their Life Philosophies (Cambridge University Press, 1993), which was translated into several languages, and Franco Modigliani, A Mind That Never Rests (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). In addition, he has been interviewed by BBC-TV, Time , Newsweek , The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal and many other journalistic outlets regarding international economic matters. In 1989, Szenberg was interviewed by media outlets for his indirect involvement in the shakeup of Margaret Thatcher's government in Britain, referred to as "The Walters-Lawson Affair". He is the author of many scholarly articles, various chapters in books, and encyclopedia entries such as in The International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences . He also serves as a frequent conference keynote speaker around the world as well as a convocation lecturer. Since 1972, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of The American Economist . In addition, he was editor of Economics Categories , Cambridge University Press Encyclopedia and is the coordinator and chairperson of Editors of Economics Journals, American Economic Association Meetings since 1984. He is an editorial consultant to top publishing houses and also coeditor of the economics series of handbooks by Oxford University Press. Michael Szenberg is listed in directories such as Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in America .¹