Dr. James H. Nolt is pioneering new ways of doing political economy to help displace contemporary economics and finance theory. This website gives some flavor of his approach. As a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute for 23 years, he is also known as an expert in East Asian international relations, including numerous television appearances in at least eight countries; interviews for radio, newspapers and magazines in several countries; and lectures to audiences including his students at New York University, Department of International Relations, community groups, and financial firms from New York to Shanghai. He is the author of International Political Economy: The Business of War and Peace, which applies polarized political economy to major issues of international relations
through history. He is now working on a more comprehensive book on polarizing political economy.
Dr. Nolt has a PhD in international relations from the University of Chicago and a master degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He also did graduate study at Stanford University and was a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He was founding dean of a joint-venture international college in Nanjing, China, and taught business, economics and international relations there. Besides his current teaching at NYU, he has taught as professor at the New School University, Seton Hall University, and Vanderbilt University. He also worked as a software engineer for six years in two companies related to medical equipment and medical research support.