Suresh Naidu

Suresh Naidu is the Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He was a Harvard Academy fellow from 2008-2010, and has been at Columbia since 2010. Naidu works on political economy and historical labor markets. His interests focus on the economic effects of democracy and non-democracy, monopsony in labor markets, the economics of American slavery, guest worker migration, and labor unions and labor organizing. Naidu is also external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.