Eric Bartelsman Visiting Scholar Columbia University Center on Capitalism and Society

The Center on Capitalism and Society of Columbia University brings together leading scholars in economics, business, finance, and law to study capitalist institutions, their effectiveness and their weaknesses, in order to get some answers to such basic questions about capitalism—its working, its dynamism and the instability it may cause, its inclusiveness or lack of, and its role in a democracy. The Center was founded in 2002 and is directed by Nobel-prize winning economist Edmund S. Phelps.

Eric Bartelsman (1960) is professor of economics at the VU Amsterdam. He studied economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his PhD from Columbia University. He has served as economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC, as advisor to the CPB, Netherlands, and as head of the economic research department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands. His research interests focus on the sources of productivity growth, both from a micro and macro point of view.