Jeff Madrick is Director of the Rediscovering Government Initiative at the Roosevelt Institute, editor of "Challenge Magazine, " Visiting Professor of Humanities at The Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School.Jon Bakija is Professor of Economics at Williams College.Lane Kenworthy is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona.Peter Lindert is Distinguished Professor of Economics at University of California, Davis.