George Vachadze

Faculty Fellow

George Vachadze is an assistant professor of Economics at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 2003 and Ph.D. in Economics from the Center of Economic Research and Graduate Education of Charles University in 1999. Before joining The City University of New York, he worked as a researcher at the Department of Economics at Bielefeld University in Germany and as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Hunter College of The City University of New York. His current research interests are in the areas of international economics, monetary theory, and economic growth.

Participating Years

2010–2011

Labor/Crisis/Protest

Labor processes and conditions of employment in almost all sectors of the economy and most of the world have been revolutionized over the last thirty years. Generally, the share of wages in gross domestic product has declined while the share taken by capital (finance in particular) has soared. The response (or lack of it) to these new conditions has been patchy, raising questions of the state of political consciousness and political subjectivity among affected populations. Where, many ask, is the outrage and why the lack of mass protest and mass movement?