Stephen C. Smith (economist)
American economist
Stephen Charles Smith (born April 24, 1955) is an economist, author, and educator. He is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University, where he was Chair of the Department of Economics from 2019-2025. He is also a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (now "IZA@LISER").
Background
Smith received his PhD in economics from Cornell University in 1983 for thesis titled On Employment and Local Public Goods in Labor-Managed and Participatory Firms and Labor Unions: Institutions, Economic Theory and Econometrics. He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar and a Fulbright Senior Specialist; a UNICEF Senior Fellow; and a Jean Monnet Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Smith is also a former Visiting Fellow and Non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution. He is a former director of the Institute for International Economic Policy, and has served as the director of The George Washington University's Research Program in Poverty, Development, and Globalization. Smith joined the faculty of The George Washington University in 1983. Smith was as an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization from 2007 to 2013. He served as first director of the International Development Studies Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
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