Richard Parker (economist)
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Richard Parker is an economist from the USA. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford, and has worked for the United Nations Development Programme. Parker cofounded Mother Jones magazine and is on the editorial board of The Nation. He wrote the books The myth of the middle class, Mixed signals: the future of global television news, and John Kenneth Galbraith: The Making of American Economics.
Parker has held Marshall, Rockefeller, Danforth, Goldsmith, and Bank of America fellowships; and is lecturer in public policy and senior fellow of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He teaches a class titled "Religion, Politics and Public Policy" at the Kennedy School of Government.
