Ying Chen is assistant professor of economics and director of undergraduate studies and departmental faculty advisor of economics at The New School. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work explores the contradictions within capitalism and how they exhibit themselves. Topics she has studied include economic development, labor and climate change, with a special focus on the Global South. She has published in journals including Environment and Development Economics; Economics and Labor Relations Review; Journal of Labor and Society; Review of Radical Political Economics; and International Review of Applied Economics, among others.
She was consulted for work on the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report 2021 and has become a member of the executive council of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) since 2021.
