Mark S SilvermanAssistant Professor of Economics
Education
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
J.D., NYU School of Law
B.A., Swarthmore College
Teaching
ECO 100: Introduction to Economic Principles
ECO 103: Introduction to Economic Perspectives
ECO 200: Intermediate Microeconomics
ECO 248: History of Economic Thought
ECO 360: Law and Economics
Seminars and Presentations
鈥淐onceptions of the 鈥楴atural鈥� in Neoclassical Thought: Walras, Clark and Jevons鈥� at the Association for Economic and Social Analysis (AESA) Retreat, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (September 18-20, 2015)
鈥淐ost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Law鈥� at New Thinking in Law and Economics, SUNY Buffalo Law School (June 23, 2015)
鈥淟aw and (Micro)Economics, Law and (Macro)Economics鈥� at Critiquing Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation, George Washington University Law School (May 20, 2014)
Causation and Constitutivity: A Critical Appraisal of Marxian Overdetermination, presented at Rethinking Marxism Conference (November, 2009) and at the Eastern Economic Association (February, 2010)
Rhetoric and Responsibility: The Ideological Effects of Naturalism in Economics, presented at the Eastern Economic Association, (February, 2011) and at the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) (November, 2011)
Publications
"Conceptions of the Natural and the Social in Walras's Economic Thought." Review of Political Economy (2021): 1-14.
鈥淥verdetermined or Indeterminate? Remarks on 鈥楰nowledge and Class.鈥欌�� (2013) Rethinking Marxism, Vol 23 (5) pp 311-324
鈥淢inimum Wage Laws and Unemployment鈥� in Law and Economics: Contemporary Approaches, co-edited by Mcluskey, M. Pasquale, F., Taub, J. (With McCluskey, M.)(Forthcoming)