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Edwards Campaign Press Release - More Than 30 Leading Economists Endorse John Edwards For President

January 02, 2008

Economists pick Edwards because he will fight for sustained growth, full employment and an end to poverty

Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Today, the John Edwards for President campaign announced that more than 30 leading U.S. economists have endorsed John Edwards for president. "Economists for John Edwards" includes such notable scholars as James K. Galbraith from the University of Texas at Austin; Deirdre McCloskey from the University of Illinois at Chicago; Thomas Palley, founder of the Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project; Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategies Institute; Harley Shaiken from the University of California, Berkeley; and Edward Wolff from New York University.

"I'm proud to endorse John Edwards and his campaign to build One America.," said James Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. "Edwards understands that in order for America to prosper, our economy needs to reward work as well as wealth – and he's proposed detailed and comprehensive policies to address the growing income gap, the health care crisis, job loss and the other critical social issues facing our nation."

"I am honored to have earned the support of this distinguished group of economists," said Senator Edwards. "Today, families across the country are working harder than ever, but struggling to make ends meet. To help middle-class families get ahead, we need a president who will fight for universal health care, smarter trade policies and a new energy economy."

In their endorsement of Edwards, the "Economists for Edwards" signed on to the following statement:

"As professional economists, we support John Edwards for President of the United States in 2008 because we believe that John Edwards has best demonstrated the capacity and the policies to be the next president of the United States.

"We support John Edwards because we believe his campaign is the single best expression of progressive political values in American politics today.

"We support John Edwards because we believe that as president he will best wage the hard fight that lies ahead for the principles and programs we endorse.

"We support John Edwards because as economists, we seek effective public policy aimed at sustained growth, full employment, an end to poverty, and progress toward solving the major social and environmental problems associated with health care, education, trade, taxation and climate change.

"John Edwards' approach to these issues has been uniquely serious, honest, and far-reaching. We urge all Americans – and particularly the Democratic voters of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina - to join us in supporting John Edwards for president."

A complete list of the members of "Economists for Edwards" is included below.

Economists for Edwards

Note that institutional affiliations are for identification purposes only.

Gar Alperovitz

Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy

University of Maryland-College Park

Lourdes Beneria

Professor of City and Regional Planning

Cornell University

Michael A. Bernstein

Provost

Tulane University

Martha Campbell

Associate Professor, Economics

SUNY Potsdam

Manuel Castells

Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society

University of Southern California, and

Distinguished Visiting Professor of Science and Technology

MIT

Jane D'Arista

Former staff economist

U.S. House of Representatives

William Darity, Jr.

Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies

Professor of African and Africa-American Studies and Economics

Duke University

Paul Davidson

Editor, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics

Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis

The New School University

Gerald Epstein

Professor of Economics

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Susan F. Feiner

Director of Women's Studies

Professor of Economics

University of Southern Maine

James K. Galbraith

Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations

LBJ School of Public Affairs

The University of Texas at Austin, and

Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute

Richard Garrett

Associate Professor of Economics

Division of Accounting and Business Management

Marymount Manhattan College

Mary King

Professor of Economics

Portland State University

Jan Kregel

Visiting Distinguished Research Professor of Economics

The University of Missouri - Kansas City

Peter Hans Matthews

Department of Economics

Middlebury College

Middlebury, Vermont 05753

Deirdre McCloskey

Professor of Economics

University of Illinois at Chicago

Richard McIntyre

Honors Program Director and Professor of Economics

University of Rhode Island.

Thomas Michl

Professor of Economics

Colgate University

David Miller

Assistant Professor of Economics

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

John Miller

Professor of Economics

Wheaton College

Tracy Mott

Professor of Economics

University of Colorado at Boulder

Thomas Palley

Founder

Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project

Dimitri Papadimitriou

President

Levy Economics Institute

Bard College

Chip Poirot

Associate Professor of Economics

Department of Social Sciences

Shawnee State University

Robert Pollin

Professor of Economics and Director,

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Robert Prasch

Associate Professor of Economics

Middlebury College

Clyde Prestowitz

President

Economic Strategies Institute

Bruce Roberts

Professor of Economics

University of Southern Maine

J. Barkley Rosser

Professor of Economics

James Madison University

Harley Shaiken

Class of 1930 Professor

Graduate School of Education and Department of Geography

University of California, Berkeley

Nina Shapiro

Professor and Chair

Department of Economics and Finance,

Saint Peter's College

Edward Wolff

Professor of Economics

New York University

Martin Wolfson

Professor of Economics and Policy Studies

University of Notre Dame

L. Randall Wray

Research Director

Center for Full Employment and Price Stability

Department of Economics

University of Missouri-Kansas City, and

Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute

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