Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.
Clara E. Mattei
Director of the Center for Heterodox Economics, Professor of Economics
Clara E. Mattei is Professor of Economics and Director of the CHE. She previously taught at the The New School for Social Research Economics Department and has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. Her research contributes to the history of capitalism, exploring the critical relation between economic ideas and technocratic policy making. Her first book, The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press 2022) is translated in over 10 languages. Her current book project critically reassesses the Golden Age of Capitalism (1945-1975) and its Keynesianism through the lens of austerity capitalism.
Jisu Park
Assistant Director of the Center for Heterodox Economics
Jisu Park has an M.A. in Economics at The New School for Social Research. Her focus is on how patriarchy shapes gender roles and power dynamics within families, as well as the history of labor exploitative strategies in South Korea’s rapid economic growth. Now, as the Assistant Director of the CHE, Jisu works closely with students and faculty to organize events, manage research projects, and build connections with scholars and organizers from around the world.
Scott Carter
Chair of Economics Department, Professor of Economics
Scott Carter is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department of the University of Tulsa. He specializes in heterodox approaches including Sraffian, Marxian, and Post-Keynesian theories with emphasis on the economics of income distribution. He also focuses on the intellectual and archival legacy of the Italian Cambridge economist Piero Sraffa. He is also an active organizer and activist to build a better society.
Bruno Theodosio
Assistant Professor of Economics
Bruno Theodosio is Assistant Professor of Economics. He specializes in political economy, with a strong focus on probabilistic thinking and mathematical methods applied to economic ideas. His research aims to uncover the inner workings of capitalism and reveal the underlying dynamics governing economic variables. His interests lie at the intersection of political economy, heterodox macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, and quantitative empirical methods, including Maximum Entropy Economics and Bayesian techniques.
Contact
Email: CHE@utulsa.edu
Phone: 918-631-3398
Director’s Office: Chapman Hall Room 221
Assistant Director’s Office: Chapman Hall Room 222