Gary Arthur Dymski

Background

Gary Arthur Dymski was born on March 23, 1953, in North Tonawanda, New York, to Donald A. Dymski, an engineer, and Therese M. (Olszewski) Dymski.

Education

In 1975, Gary Dymski received a Bachelor of Arts in urban studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University in 1977.

In 1983, he also received a Master of Arts, and a Ph.D. in 1987, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Career

Gary Dymski began his career at Syracuse, New York. He worked full-time as a senior research analyst at the Syracuse University Office of Institutional Research. He held two full-time positions thereafter in Indianapolis, Indiana: he was an economic analyst for the Legal Services Organization of Indiana (a program providing legal, legislative, and policy support for low-income people in the state) between 1977 and 1979; and from 1979-81 he served as staff director and fiscal analyst for the Democratic caucus in the Indiana State Senate. Gary served under Senator Frank O'Bannon, who went on to be a two-term Lt. Governor and then Governor of that state.

In 1981 Dymski moved to Massachusetts to begin doctoral studies in economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. During that period of study, he was selected as the Leo Model Research Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, spending 1985-86 in Washington at Brookings. Gary took up a position as visiting assistant professor at the University of Southern California in 1986 before receiving his doctoral degree in 1987.

Between 1987 and 1991 Dymski was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Southern California. In 1991, he was hired at the University of California, Riverside, also as an assistant professor of economics. Gary was promoted to an associate professor (that is, tenured) at UCR in 1995, and then promoted to professor of economics in 2000. He officially resigned from UCR in 2014.

While a member of the University of California, Riverside faculty, Dymski served as associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (2001-2002). He resigned that position so as to play the role of founding director of UCR's Center for Sustainable Suburban Development in the 2002-03 academic year and moved from UCR to Sacramento in July 2003 so as to become the founding executive director of the University of California Center, Sacramento (UCCS). UCCS, run out of the UC Office of the President, served all 11 University of California campuses as a public policy center in California's state capitol. UCCS trained over 600 scholar-interns from across the UC system during his years there (2003-2009), and held more than 300 seminars, conferences, and workshops on policy challenges facing California and its government.

Dymski joined the Leeds University Business School in 2012 as a Professor of Applied Economics. Gary is co-leader of the Leeds University interdisciplinary CITIES research initiative.

Dymski has also been a visiting scholar in universities and research centers in Australia, Brazil, Bangladesh, Colombia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Mexico. He has had the opportunity to engage in policy-related work since becoming an academic with organizations and projects in the United States (California, Washington, DC, New York, Ohio, among others), Brazil, Canada, the European Union, France, Greece, and South Africa. In Brazil, Professor Dymski organized academic/NGO/resident workshops on research about favelas in Rio de Janeiro in 2010 and 2011, and have served as an advisor to the Minas Gerais (state) Development Bank. He also joined the faculty of Leeds University Business School in April 2012 as a Professor of Applied Economics. Dymski is currently an advisor to the Debt and Development division of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), located in Geneva. He has also served on the editorial boards of several academic journals and on the governing committees of a number of academic associations.

Achievements

• Professor Gary Dymski is most commonly known as a contributor to books and periodicals, including Journal of Economic Issues, World Development, Dollars and Sense, Review of Black Political Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Social Philosophy and Policy, International Trade Journal, Economics and Philosophy, and Review of Social Economy. He is also among the founders of Leeds ACTS, an academic collaboration between third-sector organizations and universities in Leeds; and has been the University of Leeds' representative on the Leeds City Council's Third Sector Assembly since its founding in 2015.

Works

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  • Seeking Shelter on the Pacific Rim: Financial Globalization, Social Change, and the Housing Market

    (This innovative book analyzes the changes that financial ...)

    2002
  • Philosophy and the Problems of Work

    (Philosophy and the Problems of Work brings together for t...)

    2002
  • The Bank Merger Wave: The Economic Causes and Social Consequences of Financial Consolidation

    (This far-reaching study shows that operating efficiencies...)

    1999
  • Transforming the U.S. Financial System: An Equitable and Efficient Structure for the 21st Century

    (This work challenges the conventional understanding of Ho...)

    1993
  • New Perspectives in Monetary Macroeconomics: Explorations in the Tradition of Hyman P. Minsky

    (Focuses on finance and change and instability in the macr...)

    1994

Membership

Gary Dymski was a member of the American Economic Association, Union for Radical Political Economics, Association for Evolutionary Economics, Association for Institutional Thought, American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center and Phi Beta Kappa.

Personality

Gary A. Dymski is an economist whose professional life clashes strongly with the perception of economists as ivory tower dwelling theoreticians. He is an activist whose interest in the real-world applications and impact of economic theories is illustrated both in his writings and in his activities. Dymski, who grew up in Philadelphia, took an interest in the life of the city around him as a very young man.

Interests

• world literature, cinema

• Sport & Clubs

  Running

• Music & Bands

  jazz

Connections

On May 11, 1980, Dymski married JoAnne Sawyerknoll, but their marriage ended on August 17, 1994. The couple has two children - Jamaal and Naima.

Father:

Donald A. Dymski

Mother:

Therese M. (Olszewski) Dymski

child:

Jamaal Dymski

child:

Naima Dymski

ex-wife:

JoAnne Sawyerknoll

References

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