Team

Collaborators on the complexity economics research program.

Michael Ralph

Michael Ralph

Professor and Chair
Howard University — Department of Afro-American Studies Washington, DC

Scholarship integrates political science, economics, history, and medical anthropology. Former W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at Harvard. Currently developing two books on slavery, insurance, and incarceration.

DebtInsuranceSlaveryForensicsIncarceration
PhD University of Chicago (Anthropology) Michael.Ralph@howard.edu
Anush Kapadia

Anush Kapadia

Associate Professor
IIT Bombay — Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies Mumbai, India

Examines how system-design choices in financial systems are also political choices, spanning theoretical work and empirical case studies across Indian and international markets.

Politics of financial systemsBond marketsShadow bankingIndian industrial policy
PhD Columbia University (Anthropology) akapadia@iitb.ac.in
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Gustav Peebles

Associate Professor
Stockholm University — Department of Social Anthropology Stockholm, Sweden

Published extensively on money, credit, and debt throughout human history. Author of The Euro and Its Rivals. Former Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at The New School.

Monetary historyCredit and debtDigital currenciesEconomic anthropology
PhD University of Chicago (Socio-Cultural Anthropology) gustav.peebles@socant.su.se
Lori Corpuz

Lori Corpuz

Independent Researcher
Independent New York, NY

Independent researcher working on theories of value in the age of AI. Her central question: when the cost of cognitive labor collapses, which of our inherited frameworks for measuring worth hold up, and which quietly become fiction? Building the research infrastructure for complexity-economics.org. Experience building investment platforms.

Theories of valueComplexity economicsAI and labor