James Heintz
Director, Economics and Human Rights Program
Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics
James Heintz holds a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts and a master's degree from the University of Minnesota. He has written on a wide range of economic policy issues, including job creation, global labor standards, the distributive consequences of macroeconomic policies, and human rights. He has worked on collaborative projects with numerous United Nations agencies, including the International Labour Organization, the U.N. Research Institute for Social Development, the Economic Commission for Africa, the United Nations Development Programme, and UNIFEM. His policy work has focused on the U.S. as well as developing countries, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, the Gambia, Madagascar, and South Africa. He is co-author of several books including, with Nancy Folbre, The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as an economist at the National Labour and Economic Development Institute in Johannesburg, a policy think tank affiliated with the South African labor movement. His current work focuses on employment policy and poverty outcomes; economic policy choices and human rights; informal and atypical employment; macroeconomic policies for sub-Saharan Africa; and the links between economic policies and distributive outcomes, including race and gender dimensions.
Recent Research
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Good Intentions, Better Outcomes: Shifting the Debate About Social Protection and Informality
February 2024
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Don't Let Another Crisis Go to Waste: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Imperative for a Paradigm Shift
February 2022
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The Economy’s Other Half: How Taking Gender Seriously Transforms Macroeconomics
January 2019
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Economic Analysis of Medicare for All
November 2018
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Stalled Progress: Recent Research on Why Labor Markets Are Failing Women
September 2018
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Investment, Consumption, or Public Good? Unpaid Work and Intra-Family Transfers in the Macro-Economy
October 2017
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The Revenue Potential of a Financial Transaction Tax for U.S. Financial Markets
July 2017
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Economic Analysis of the Healthy California Single-Payer Health Care Proposal (SB-562)
May 2017
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Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice: The radical potential of human rights
April 2016
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Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing Through Public Procurement Policies: How Procurement Policies Can Promote Innovation and Good Jobs
December 2015