CURRICULUM VITAE     

MICHELE I. NAPLES

 

 The College of New Jersey

 

 Economics, School of Business

 

 P O Box 7718

 

 Ewing NJ 08628-0718
email: Naples@TCNJ.edu 609-771-2896/2566/3050
   
Education Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, 1982

 

 A.B. Princeton University, Princeton NJ, 1976, Magna Cum Laude

 
Fields Macroeconomics, Price Theory,  Economic Policy, History of Economic Thought, Money and Banking, Women and Work, Labor Economics, Political Economy, Women's Studies
Awards 1991 Otto Eckstein Award, for best article published in 1988 or 1989 in the Eastern Economic Journal, for Michele I. Naples, "Industrial Conflict, the Quality of Worklife, and the Productivity Slowdown in US Manufacturing," Eastern Economic Journal 14(2) (April-June 1988):157-166.
   
Employment History Associate Professor, Economics, The College of New Jersey/Trenton State College, 1993-present
  Associate Professor, Economics and Finance, Monmouth College, 1990-1993
  Coordinator, Women's Studies Program, Monmouth College, January 1992-June 1993
  Assistant Professor, Economics and Women's Studies, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, 1980-1990

 
Journal Articles Claire Friedland, Craufurd Goodwin, Clair H. Hammond, J. Daniel Hammond, David Levy, Steven G. Medema, Michele I. Naples, Warren J. Samuels, Stephen M. Stigler, 2002, “George J. Stigler:  Scholar, Father, Dissertation Advisor, Referee. Textbook Writer and Policy Analyst,”The American Journal of Economics and Sociology(July 2002):1-51.
  Michele I. Naples, 1998, "Technical and Social Determinants of Productivity Growth in Bituminous Coal Mining, 1955-1980 Eastern Economic Journal (October).
  Michele I. Naples and Ellie A. Fogarty, 1998, "The Presence of History: A Survey of History of Economic Thought and Methodology Articles in the Economic Literature Index, 1969-1995," Journal of Economic Issues (March).
  Michele I. Naples and Arben Arifaj, 1997, "The Rise in U.S. Business Failures: Correcting the 1984 Discontinuity," Contributions to Political Economy, 16:49-60.
  Michele I. Naples and Nahid Aslanbeigui, 1997, "Scissors or Horizon: Neoclassical Debate about Returns to Scale, Costs, and Long-Run Supply, 1926-1942," Southern Economic Journal, 64(2):517-530.

Abstracted in Economic and Business History Economics APS, Social Science Research Network, Vol. 3, No. 2, March 20, 1998.
  Michele I. Naples, 1997, "Business Failures and the Expenditure-Multiplier, or How Recessions Become Depressions," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 19(4)(Summer):511-523.
  ________ and Nahid Aslanbeigui, 1996, "What Does Determine the Profit Rate? The Neoclassical Answers Presented by Introductory Textbooks," Cambridge Journal of Economics, 20(1) (January):53-71

Republished in Portuguese as Michele I. Naples and Nahid Aslanbeigui, 1998, “O Que Realmente Determina a Taxa de Lucro?  As Teorías Neoclassicas Apresentadas em Manuais Introductórios,” Economie em Revista  6(10) (Junho):5-28.
  Michele I. Naples, 1993, "Unperceived Inflation in Shaikh, and Kliman and McGlone: Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, or Nonequilibrium?" Capital and Class 50 (Autumn):119-137.
  ________, 1989, "A Radical Economic Revision of the Transformation Problem," Review of Radical Political Economics, Special Issue: Modern Approaches to the Theory of Value II, 21(1&2) (Spring & Summer):137-158.
  ________, 1988, "Industrial Conflict, the Quality of Worklife, and the Productivity Slowdown in US Manufacturing," Eastern Economic Journal 14(2) (April-June):157-166.
  ________, 1988, "Is a Uniform Profit Rate Possible? A Logical-Historical Analysis" Science & Society 52(l) (Spring): 83-93.
  ________, 1986-87, "An Analysis of Defensive Strikes," Industrial Relations 26(1) (Winter 1986-87):96-105.
  ________, 1986, "The Unraveling of the Union-Capital Truce and the US Industrial Productivity Crisis," Review of Radical Political Economics 18(1-2) (Spring-Summer):110-131.
  ________, 1985, "Dynamic Adjustment and Long-Run Inflation in a Marxian Model," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 8(1) (Fall): 97-112.
  ________, 1981, "Industrial Conflict and Its Implications for Productivity Growth," American Economic Review 71 (May):36-41.

 
Refereed Conference Proceedings Michele I. Naples and Lynn M. Braender, 2000, “Participatory Pedagogies and Student Performance, Evidence from Computer Fundamentals and Macroeconomics,” Proceedings of Conference on Pedagogies for Quantitative Disciplines, the Richard Stockton College of NJ, August
Edited Books Michele I. Naples and Nahid Aslanbeigui, editors, 1996, Rethinking Economic Principles: Critical Essays on Introductory Textbooks, Irwin. Includes 3 chapters we co-authored:

Ch. 1, "Content Problems of Introductory Textbooks: An Overview," 1-8

Ch. 2, "Positivism vs. Paradigms: The Epistemological Underpinnings of Economic Debates in Introductory Textbooks," 11-27

Ch. 8, "Is There a Theory of Involuntary Unemployment in Introductory Textbooks?" 109-126
  Robert Cherry, Chris D'Onofrio, Cigdem Kurdas, Tom Michl, Fred Moseley, and Michele I. Naples, editors, 1988, The Imperiled Economy Book II: Through the Safety Net. New York: URPE.                                Includes co-authored chapter:

Ch. 1, "Guide to Articles," pp. 3-7

Co-compiler, "Statistical Appendix," pp. 237-254
   
  Robert Cherry, Chris D'Onofrio, Cigdem Kurdas, Tom Michl, Fred Moseley, and Michele I. Naples, editors, 1987, The Imperiled Economy. Book I: Macroeconomics from a Left Perspective. New York: URPE.

Includes chapter I authored,

Chapter 11, "Cyclical and Secular Productivity Slowdowns," pp. 159-170

Co-compiler of "Statistical Appendix," pp. 307-324
   
Monographs “Wages and Working Conditions of NJ Public Librarians, 2002,” with Lynn M. Braender.  The College of New Jersey School of Business Working Papers, Ewing NJ, forthcoming, 31 pp.

“The Fiscal Viability of NJ Family Leave Insurance,” with Meryl Frank.  Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Washington DC, 2002.  50 pp.

“The Industrial Accident Rate: Creating a Consistent Time Series,” with David M. Gordon.  Institute for Labor Research and Education, New York, 1981. 5 pp.

   
Book Chapters Michele I. Naples, 2003.  Institutional Foundations of Economic Growth and Price Stability,” in Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin, Eds., New Thinking in Macroeconomics; Social, Institutional and Environmental Perspectives.  Northampton MA:  Edward Elgar, 99-120.

Nahid Aslanbeigui and Michele I. Naples, 1997, "The Changing Status of the History of Thought in Economics Curricula," in Nahid Aslanbeigui and Young Back Choi, Eds., Borderlands of Economics; Essays in Honor of Daniel R. Fusfeld, Routledge, 131-150.
  Michele I. Naples, 1996, "Labor Relations and the Social Structure of Accumulation: The Case of US Coal Mining," in Cyrus Bina, Laurie Clements, and Chuck Davis, Eds., Beyond Survival: Wage Labor in the Late Twentieth Century. Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, Publishers, 109-130.
  Michele I. Naples, 1996, "Time, Money, Equilibrium: Methodology and the Labour Theory of the Profit Rate, in Alan Freeman and Guglielmo Carchedi, editors, Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics, Brookfield, US: Edward Elgar, 95-115.
  Jens Christiansen and Michele I. Naples, 1986, "The Social Determinants of Productivity: Evidence from the US, UK and FRG," in Gyorgy Sziraczki, ed., The State, the Trade Unions and the Labour Market: Possibilities of and Limitations to Intervention Vol. II. Budapest, Hungary: Hungary Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, pp. 49-65.
  Michele I. Naples, 1985, "Comment on Divorce and Women's Industrial Work Experience," in Mary R. Murrin, ed. Women in New Jersey History, Papers presented at the l3th annual New Jersey History Symposium (Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission):43-48.
  ________, Tom Riddell and Nancy Rose, 1981, "The Crisis in Perspective," in Kenneth Fox et. al., eds., Crisis in the Public Sector: A Reader (New York: Monthly Review Press/URPE): 13-33.
   
Encyclopedia Entries Michele I. Naples, 1997, "Profit Squeeze," in Business Cycles and Depressions; an Encyclopedia, David Glasner, Ed., New York: Garland Publishers, 547-549.
  ________, 1997, "Social Structure of Accumulation," in Business Cycles and Depressions; and Encyclopedia, David Glasner, Ed., New York: Garland Publishers, 633-635.
  ________, 1994, "Social Structure of Accumulation," in The Elgar Companion to Radical Political Economy, Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer, Eds., Brookfield: Edward Elgar, 366-370.
   
Book Review Michele I. Naples, 1998, Review of The Macroeconomics of Saving, Finance, and Investment, edited by Robert Pollin. In Challenge, the Magazine of Economic Affairs (May-June):118-123.
   
Dissertation "The Structure of Industrial Relations, Labor Militance and the Rate of Growth of Productivity: The Case of US Mining and Manufacturing, 1953-1977." Chair: James R. Crotty
   
Policy Brief Michele I. Naples, “Using Temporary Disability Insurance to Provide Paid Family Leave in New Jersey,” Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Research in Brief, July 2002, 6 pp.
   
Conference Papers Michele I. Naples, 2004. “Gender Discrimination Under Strategic Competition.” Eastern Economic Association, Washington DC, February.

________, 2003.  “Conflict-Management for Finance and Industry:  Movement Towards the Next SSA?”  American Economic Association, Washington DC, January.

________, 2002.  “Institutional Foundations of Economic Growth and Price Stability,” Rethinking Macroeconomics; Conference sponsored by the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University. The Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Tarrytown NY, June.

________, 2000.  “The Cost of Family Leave Insurance:  Finding the Numbers, Tailoring Them to Your State,” National Research and Networking Conference on Family Leave Benefits, sponsored by the National Partnership for Women and Families, December.

________, 2000.  “Estimating Family Leave Benefits in New Jersey,” Conference on Family Leave Benefit Research Methodology, sponsored by National Partnership for Women

________ and Lynn M. Braender, 2000, “Participatory Pedagogies and Student Performance, Evidence from Computer Fundamentals and Macroeconomics,” Conference on Pedagogies for Quantitative Disciplines, The Richard Stockton College of NJ, Pomona, NJ, August. and Families. Boston, September.

Michele I. Naples and Meryl Frank, 2000, “The Fiscal Viability of Paid Family and Medical Leave in New Jersey.”  Crystal City, VA, February.

Michele I. Naples and Nahid Aslanbeigui, 1997, "Teaching Introductory Microeconomics to Integrate the New Scholarship on Race, Gender and Ethnicity," Conference entitled "Inclusive and Interdisciplinary: Building the New Curriculum," sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the University of Southern Maine, Portland Maine, September 1997
  ________ and ________, 1997, "The Cost Controversy: The Interplay of History and Ideas, 1920s-1950s," Conference on "The Transformation of American Economics: From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism," Duke University, April 1997; Conference entitled "Employment, Power and Accumulation," New School for Social Research, April 1997
  ________ and ________, 1996, "The Fall and Rise of The History of Thought in Economics Curricula," Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Boston, March
  ________ and ________, 1996, "The Cost-Curve Controversy, 1930s-1950s," American Economic Association Meetings, San Francisco, January
  Michele I. Naples, 1995, "Disinflation, Interest-Rate Hikes and Business Failures," (listed as "Loan Losses and Business Failure") Eastern Economic Association Meetings, New York City, March 1995
  _______ and Nahid Aslanbeigui, 1995, Roundtable Session on "Do Economic Programs Teach Economic Students to Think Critically?", Eastern Economic Association Meetings, New York City, March
  _______ and ________, 1994, "Positivism vs. Paradigms: The Epistemological Underpinnings of Economic Debates in Introductory Textbooks," Invited Session, Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Boston MA, March
  Michele I. Naples, 1994, "Roundtable on Value Conservation & Dynamics: 'Alternative' Approaches," Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Boston MA, March 1994
  ________, 1993, "Business Failures Large and Small," [title on conference program: Loan Losses and Business Failures] Invited Session, Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Washington DC, March
  ________ and Nahid Aslanbeigui, 1993, "Is There a Theory of Involuntary Unemployment in Introductory Textbooks?" Invited Session, Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Washington DC, March
  ________ and ________, 1992, "What Does Determine the Profit Rate? Evidence from Introductory Texts," History of Economics Society meetings, George Mason University, Virginia, June
  Michele I. Naples, 1992, "What is the Future of the Neoclassical Theory of the Profit Rate?" Eastern Economic Meetings, New York City, March
  ________, 1992, "Long Period Nonequilibrium Models of Capitalism and Socialism," Eastern Economic Meetings, New York City, March
  ________ and Nahid Aslanbeigui, 1992, "The Neoclassical Theory of the Profit Rate in High Theory and Introductory Texts," ASSA meetings, New Orleans, January
  ________, 1990, "Transfers, Business Failures, and the Expenditure Multiplier: The Macro-Regional Consequences of Reaganomics," ASSA meetings, Washington DC, December
  ________, 1989, "Law, Activism, and Coal-Mine Safety," ASSA meetings, Atlanta, December
  ________, 1989, "A Radical Economic Revision of the Transformation Problem," URPE Summer Conference, Sandwich, Massachusetts, August 26
  ________, 1989, "Cyclical and Secular Productivity Slowdowns," Socialist Scholars Conference, New York City, April 1
  ________, 1988, "Inflation and the Distribution of Income in a Nonequilibrium Marxian Model," International Workshop on Income Distribution, University of Tennessee, June
  ________, 1987, "Methodology and the Transformation Problem," ASSA meetings, Chicago, December
  ________, 1987, "New Developments in Marxian Macroeconomics and Crisis Theory," plenary presentation, URPE Summer Conference, August
  ________, 1986, "Regulatory Frameworks for Industrial Relations: The Case of US Coal Mining," Conference on the New Regulatory Framework, Cambridge University, Cambridge England, July 13-20 and URPE Summer Conference, Sandwich MA, August
  ________, 1985, "Private Property and the Transformation Problem," ASSA meetings, New York, December
  ________ and Jens Christiansen, 1985, "Productivity Growth and Economic Growth in the US, UK and FRG," International Conference on Industrial Relations and Competition, Santiago de Compostela Spain, July, and URPE Summer Conference, Beckett Massachusetts, August
  ________ and ________, 1984, "The Social Determinants of Productivity: Evidence from the US, UK and FRG," International Conference on Labor Market Segmentation, Budapest, Hungary, July
  Michele I. Naples, 1983, "The Role of the State in Restructuring Labor Relations: The Case of Safety and Health," Conference on Government Policies and Labour Market Structures in the Crisis, Aix-en-Provence, France, July
  ________, 1983, "A Critical Review of the Bortkiewicz-NeoSraffian Solution to the Transformation Problem," URPE Summer Conference, Washington DC, August
  ________, 1982, "Production as Human Activity: A Social-Relations Approach to the Productivity Slowdown," Williams College Conference on Inflation and Unemployment, October
  ________, 1980, "Industrial Conflict and Its Implications for Productivity Growth," ASSA meetings, Denver, September, and URPE Summer Conference, Santa Cruz CA, August
   
Research Seminars  Michele I. Naples and Lynn M. Braender, 2004, “Assessment of the 2002 Web-based Survey of NJ Librarians and Survey Results.” The College of New Jersey, Ewing NJ, September 15
  Michele I. Naples, 1997, "The Cost Controversy: The Interplay of History and Ideas, 1920s-1950s," Research Seminar, School of Business, The College of New Jersey, March 7
  ________, 1996, "Scissors or Horizon: The Cost-Curve Controversy, 1930s-1950s," Research Seminar, School of Business, Trenton State College, March 13
  ________, 1993, "Business Failures Large and Small: Causes and Consequences," Research Seminar, School of Business, Trenton State College, November 3
  ________, 1992, "Transfers, Business Failures, and the Expenditure Multiplier: The Macro-Regional Consequences of Reaganomics," Monmouth College School of Business Administration Research Seminar, February
  ________, 1991, "A Critique of Tranquility Models of Capitalism and Socialism," Department of Economics Research Seminar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 5
  ________, 1989, "Technical vs. Social Determinants of Coal Mine Productivity," Department of Economics Seminar, Franklin & Marshall College, March 1990, and Department of Economics Seminar, Monmouth College, February
  ________, 1987, "Cyclical and Secular Productivity Slowdowns," Department of Economics Seminar, Rutgers University, November
  ________, 1987, "Macroeconomic Long Waves and Institutional Analysis: The Case of Coal," Department of Economics Seminar, Notre Dame University, January 2l
  ________, 1986, "An Analysis of Defensive Strikes," Department of Economics Seminar, Rutgers University, March 26
  ________, 1985, "The Long-Run Theory of Prices and Profits Revisited," Post-Keynesian Seminar, Rutgers University, October
  ________, 1983, "X-Inefficiency, Industrial Conflict and the Productivity Slowdown," Vassar College Economics Seminar, October
  ________, 1983, "The Structure of Industrial Relations in US Mining and Manufacturing, the 1930s-1980s," Political Economy Seminar Series, Rutgers University, March
  ________, 1982, "What is Political Economy?" Political Economy Seminar Series, Rutgers University, October
  ________, 1982, "Industrial Safety: What the Statistics Reveal," New York Chapter, Industrial Relations Research Association, monthly meeting, April
  ________, 1980, "The Relationship between Industrial Conflict and Productivity Growth," New School for Social Research Labor Seminar, November
  ________, 1980, "Industrial Conflict and Its Implications for Productivity Growth," Department of Economics Seminar, Livingston College, Rutgers University, October
   
Teaching Experience Economics: Macroeconomics (including Honors); Microeconomics; Public Finance and Fiscal Policy; Women, Gender and Work; Labor Economics; Money, Credit and Banking; Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory; Research Methods in Economics; Neo-Marxian Economics; History of Economic Thought (Graduate and Undergraduate)
  Women's Studies: Introduction to Theories of Women's Studies; Women, Culture and Society; Theories of Women's Studies; Senior Seminar: Theories of Labor Market Discrimination Against Women; Women and Contemporary Problems: Organizing for Change
  Student evaluations available upon request.
   
Administrative Experience Coordinator of Women's Studies Program, Monmouth College, Spring 1992-1993; position involved scheduling courses, planning curriculum for the minor, coordinating educational programs and faculty retreats, student advising, and setting up a system for tracking students in the interdisciplinary Program.
   
Professional Boards Elected Member, Board of Directors, Eastern Economic Association, Spring 1994-Winter 1997
   
Public Testimony NJ State Labor Committee, for pending legislation extending unemployment benefits for part-time workers, March 20, 2003
   
Journalistic Contributions 2001, Participate in Press Conference on release of Naples & Frank study on Family Leave Insurance, NJ State House, October 15.
  "Joe Lyons' show," 1982, 60-minute interview, live talk show, on industrial accidents and the economy, radio station WKBI, Seattle WA, aired January 11
  "More Injuries on the Job," 1982, The New York Times, 13 December Op-Ed page, p. E29
  "Focus: New Jersey," 1981, 20-minute segment of hour-long show on nursing and women's work, Public Television Channel 13, Newark NJ, aired November 21 and 22
   
Languages Fluent in Spanish and French
   
Memberships American Economic Association, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Eastern Economic Association, History of Economics Society, Industrial Relations Research Association, International Association of Feminist Economists