Frank Ackerman

Frank Ackerman

Template:TOCnestleft Frank Ackerman is a former New American Movement activist. He died in 2019.

Push Obama for Global Carbon Tax

Frank Ackerman signed a statement dated March 14, 2012 along with other economists promoting a global carbon tax.

Signatories:

• Kenneth Arrow, Ph.D., 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Stanford University
• William Sharpe, Ph.D., 1990 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Stanford University
• Eric Maskin, Ph.D., 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Thomas Sargent, Ph.D., 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, W.R. Berkley Professor, New York University
• Christopher Sims, Ph.D., 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, W.R. Berkley Professor, New York University
• Frank Ackerman, Ph.D., Director, Climate Economics Group, Stockholm Environment Institute, US
• Patrick Bolton, Ph.D., David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
• Mark Carhart, Ph.D., CIO and Partner, Kepos Capital LP
• Varadarajan Chari, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute, University of Minnesota
• Lawrence Christiano, Ph.D., Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• Kent Daniel, Ph.D., Professor of Finance, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
• Pierre Collin-Dufresne. Ph.D., Caron Family Professor of Business, Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
• Darrell Duffie, Ph.D., Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, Stanford University
• Martin Eichenbaum, Ph.D., Ethel and John Lindgren Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
• Christian Gollier, Ph.D., Director, Toulouse School of Economics, Research Director, Institut d’Economie Industrielle (IDEA), Researcher Laboratoire d’Economie des Ressources Naturelles (LERNA)
• Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• James D. Hamilton, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
• Lars Peter Hansen, Ph.D., David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
• Bengt Holmstrom, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Paul Joskow, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Robert Litterman, Ph.D., Partner, Kepos Capital LP, Former Head of Risk Management, Goldman Sachs
• Scott Richard, Ph.D., Practice Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Jose Scheinkman, Ph.D., Theodore A Wells ‘29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University
• Richard Schmalensee, Ph.D., Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Robert N. Stavins, Ph.D., Albert Pratt Professor of Government, Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• George Tauchen, Ph.D., Glasson Professor of Economics, Duke University

New American Movement

In the late 1970's Frank Ackerman of Dollars and Sense was a Somerville Maryland, contact for the New American Movement.

Frank Ackerman is a socialist economist who believes, "we can all understand what's going on in the economy."

In 1975 Frank Ackerman, Middlesex New American Movement, wrote an article in the NAM Discussion Bulletin No 9, March 1975, entitled "Qn Putting Putting Ourselves Together".

New American Movement National Interim Committee members in 1975 included;

Frank Ackerman, Cambridge, Mass.; Sally Avery, Durham; N.C.; Edward Bolden, Iowa City; Harry Boyte, Chapel Hill, N.C.; Sandra Kricker and Jim Weinstein, San Franciseo: Roberta Lynch and Judy MacLean,Pittsburgh: Torie Osborn, Mlddlebury, Vt.; Jeff Johnson, Fred Ojile and Shirley Wyatt, Minneapolis: Julia Reichert, Yellow Springs Ohio, Peggy Somers, Berkeley; Melissa Upton, Philadelphia.: and Loren Weinberg, Washington, D.C..

In 1981 Ackerman was active in the Greater Boston NAM.

Dollars and Sense Magazine

In the 1980s Ackerman was the editor of the Dollars and Sense magazine.

Merger negotiating committee

After intensive debate, the 1980 New American Movement Convention passed a resolution (by a 2-1. margin) calling for negotiations with Democratic Socialists Organizing Committee, the election of a Negotiating Committee, and the development of a Negotiating Document. Frank Ackerman, Joanne Barkan, David Dollar, Richard Healey, Anne Hill, Katherine Kennedy, Roberta Lynch, and Liz Weston were elected to the Negotiating Committee. Holly Graff was added as the ex officio Political Committee member, and John Beverly became the first alternate. In the fall of 1980 this Committee developed a Negotiating Document which was reviewed by chapters and then amended and approved (by a ninety per cent margin) at the December National Council meeting.

New American Movement 10th convention

In 1981 Frank Ackerman, Negotiating Committee led a workshop entitled Critical Support for Merger at the 10th Convention of the New American Movement. The convention was held in a union headquarters in Chicago and ran from July 29 - August 2, 1981.

Ackerman also spoke alongside Craig Merrilees, Chicago Northside NAM and Roberta Lynch of the NAM Negotiating Committee in a workshop entitled NAM/DSOC Informational Session and Preliminary Debate.

New American Movement Speakers Bureau

In the 1980s Frank Ackerman was a speaker on the The Crisis of Capitalism section of the NAM Speakers Bureau on the subject of The U.S. Economy De-mystified.

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