Paulo dos Santos
Associate Professor of Economics
Email
p.dossantos@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 6 East 16th Street
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Paulo dos Santos is Associate Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research.
I am a mathematical political economist working to develop observationally grounded insights into the social content of market outcomes and institutional structures in contemporary capitalist economies. My research engages with topics ranging from mathematical methods, information theory, and economic methodology, to Classical political economy, the structure and development of financial and monetary systems, and the economic effects of systems of racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination. Across all these areas, I am working to develop rigorous ways to draw on new data, methods, and analytical instruments to show how today’s decentralized market economies reproduce aggregate relationships between definite social groups.
In this my work seeks to contribute to the development of a contemporary version of Classical political economy.
Degrees Held
PhD Economics, University of London
MSc Economics, London School of Economics
B.A. Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
B.S. Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park
Recent Publications
"Statistical Equilibria in Economic Systems: Socio-Combinatorial or Individualist-Reductionist Characterizations?" European Physical Journal - Special Topics (forthcoming).
"Capital Mobility, Quasi-Rents, and the Competitive Self-Organization of Distributions of Profitability," Advances in Complex Systems (forthcoming)
"By the Content of Their Character? Discrimination, Social Identity, and Observed Distributions of Income," The Journal of Mathematical Sociology (2019), with Noe Wiener.
"Competition, Self-Organization, and Social Scaling--Accounting for the Observed Distributions of Tobin's q," Industrial and Corporate Change (2019), with Ellis Scharfenaker.
"Indices of Informational Association and Analysis of Complex Socio-Economic Systems," Entropy, with Noe Wiener (2019).
“The Principle of Social Scaling,” Complexity (2017).
“Better Than Cash, But Beware the Costs: Electronic Payments Systems and Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries,” Development and Change, with Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven (2017).
"The Distribution and Regulation of Tobin's q", Economic Letters, with Ellis Scharfenaker (2015).
"Not ‘wage-led’ versus ‘profit-led’, but investment-led versus consumption-led growth", Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, (2015).
“A Note on Credit Allocation, Income Distribution, and the Circuit of Capital”, Metroeconomica, (2014)
“Distribución del crédito, rentabilidad y estabilidad”, Ensayos Económicos, Banco Central de la República Argentina, (2013).
“A Cause for Policy Concern: The Expansion of Household Credit in Middle-Income Economies”, International Review of Applied Economics, (2013).
“A Policy Wrapped in ‘Analysis’—The World Bank’s Case for Foreign Banks”, in K Bayliss, B Fine and E Van Waeyenberge (eds), The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research, (Pluto, 2012)
“Option Pricing Models—A plurally heterodox note”, in J Toporowski and J Michell, Handbook of Critical Issues in Finance, (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)
“Production and Consumption Credit in a Continuous-Time Model of the Circuit of Capital”, Metroeconomica, (2011).
“On the Content of Banking in Contemporary Capitalism”, Historical Materialism, (2009).
“Globalization and Contemporary Banking: On the Impact of New Technology”, Contributions to Political Economy, (2008).