Rajiv Sethi

Rajiv Sethi is a Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He has previously held visiting positions at Microsoft Research in New York City, and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and Economics and Philosophy.

His research areas include microeconomics and game theory, with applications to inequality, crime, and communication. In recent work he has examined segregation in neighborhoods and social networks, stereotyping in economic interactions, disparities across groups in crime victimization and incarceration, communication with unobserved biases, and the intergenerational transmission of inequality among identity groups. In collaboration with Brendan O’Flaherty of Columbia University, he is currently writing a book on Stereotypes and Justice.

Rajiv is a founding member of CORE (Curriculum Open-Access Resources for Economics), a group of scholars engaged in the production of high-quality resources for the teaching of economics, distributed free of charge worldwide under a Creative Commons license. The first book-length publication by this group is The Economy, available at www.core-econ.org. With funding from the Teagle Foundation, he is currently directing CORE-USA, the New York based chapter of this organization.

Education

• PhD, New School for Social Research
• Bsc, University of Southampton