Outsourcing Economics: Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development

William Milberg is Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York. He has served as a consultant to the International Labor Organization (ILO), the World Bank, and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He is the author (with Robert Heilbroner) of The Making of Economic Society and The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought, and the editor of Labor and the Globalization of Production, as well as the author of numerous articles on the labor market effects of international trade and on the methodology of economics. Professor Milberg received his PhD in economics from Rutgers University.

Deborah Winkler is Research Associate with the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. She also serves as a consultant to the World Bank's International Trade Department. She is the author of Services Offshoring and Its Impact on the Labor Market. Her recent articles have appeared in World Development, the Journal of Economic Geography, and World Economy, as well as in edited volumes of the World Bank, the ILO-WTO, and the Oxford Handbook Series. Dr Winkler received her PhD in economics from Hohenheim University, Germany.