Till van Treeck is a professor at the Institute for Socio-Economics (IFSO) and the University of Duisburg-Essen. During the academic year 2021/22, he is the Theodor Heuss Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York. His main research interests are: Macroeconomics of income distribution, comparative political economy, and economics education.
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