Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Economics and of the Global Economic  Policy Center at Fordham University in New York. Honorary Professor at Shanghai Finance University, Hunan University, Nanjing University, and University of Pretoria. Consultant to World Bank, Economic Policy Institute, several central banks, multinational corporations and global banks. Co-editor of the Journal of Policy Modeling, author or editor of 58 volumes and author of more than 100 articles in economic journals. He is also the author of leading textbooks: International Economics (Wiley, 12th ed., 2016), Managerial Economics in a Global Economy (Oxford UP, 8th ed. 2015), and Microeconomics Theory (Oxford UP, 6th ed., 2016). Nominated for the National Medal of Science in 2010 conferred by the President of the United States.