Graduate Program in International Affairs, New School University

Graduate Program in International Affairs, New School University
66 West 12th Street, 9th Floor
New York, New York 10011

The Graduate Program in International Affairs, New School University, is a new and growing interdisciplinary program offering MA and MS degrees with an emphasis on globalization and its effects on policy and practice.

David Gold, Professor of Economics

Areas of expertise: US military spending, economics of military spending and the arms trade, relation between economics and security in developed and developing countries, economics of globalization

David Gold has written widely on defense budgets and defense economics, including articles in Survival, Defence and Peace Economics, and the SIPRI Yearbook. Current projects include a study of why the US defense budget rises and falls and an analysis of how governments subsidize their arms exporting industries. Dr. Gold was previously an economist in the United Nations Secretariat, and has taught at Columbia University, The University of California (Berkeley, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz), and Rutgers University.