Fairer trade; inequality and growth; political economy
John M. Olin Pre- and Post-doctoral fellow, Harvard University, 1987; Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1986; M.A., University of Toronto, 1977; B.A., Brown University, 1976
Ethan B. Kapstein is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development as well as the Dennis O’Connor Regent’s Professor of Business and Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin; currently he is a Visiting Professor of Multinational Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has also served as Executive Director of the Economics and National Security Program at Harvard, as Vice President of the Council on Foreign Relations, and as Principal Administrator at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. A former naval officer and international banker, Kapstein is the author of editor of ten books, most recently The Fate of Young Democracies (Cambridge University Press, with Nathan Converse) and Economic Justice in an Unfair World (Princeton University Press) and scores of public and professional articles in the field of international economic relations, as well as “op-eds” in the world’s leading newspapers. He has received grants from many organizations for his research including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and serves as a consultant to numerous organizations in the public and private sectors. He advises multinational corporations around the world and conducts economic impact studies for firms in both industrial and emerging market economies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Economics Association, and is a Research Affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.