Lenore Palladino
PERI Research Associate and Assistant Professor of Economics
Lenore Palladino is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a Research Associate at the UMass Amherst Political Economy Research Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. She holds a PhD from the New School University in economics and a JD from Fordham Law School. Her portfolio of work is available at lenorepalladino.com.
Palladino’s research focuses on the political economy of corporations and finance. She is the author of a forthcoming book on the political economy of corporations, Good Company: Economic Policy After Shareholder Primacy, from the University of Chicago Press. She has published in the Review of Social Economy, the Review of Black Political Economy, the Review of Radical Political Economy, Politics & Society, the International Review of Applied Economics, the Journal of Law and Political Economy, the Yale Journal of Regulation, and Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law, as well as the Financial Times and other media publications. She frequently works with policymakers, media, and advocates on corporate and financial policy. She has testified on the impacts of shareholder primacy stock buybacks before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (2022) and the House Financial Services Committee (2019). She has also written on financial transaction taxes, employee ownership, the macroeconomic effect of investing in the care economy, and the rise of fintech.
Prior to joining UMass, Palladino was senior economist and policy counsel at the Roosevelt Institute and a lecturer in economics at Smith College. She was previously vice president for advocacy at Demos and a lecturer in economics at New York University. Earlier in her career, she was campaign director at MoveOn, a lead organizer with the labor union CSEA-AFSCME, and national director of United Students Against Sweatshops.
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Recent Research
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The Growth of Private Financial Markets
May 2024
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Freedom of Association as a Key Aspect of Human Capital Management
January 2024
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Establishing a Public Option for Asset Management in the United States
August 2023
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Investigating the Frequency of Stock Buybacks
April 2022
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The Potential Benefits of Employee Equity Funds in the United States
March 2022
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Economic Democracy at Work: Why (and How) Workers Should be Represented on U.S. Corporate Boards
March 2022
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The Economic Effects of Investing in Quality Care Jobs and Paid Family and Medical Leave
June 2021
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The Impacts of Public Investment in the State Care Infrastructure
April 2021
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The Case for the Financial Transaction Tax in 2021
February 2021
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It's Time to Care: The Economic Case for Investing in a Care Infrastructure
February 2021