Marcellus is a senior research fellow at CEPR. He earned a BS/BA from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and an MA, MPhil, and PhD in economics from Yale University. Marcellus was a full professor and chair of economics at Wellesley College and the first Lilian and Nathan Ackerman Professor of Equality and Justice in America at the School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York. He is also currently a professor of economics at Bucknell University.
Marcellus comments on public affairs and economics in The Nation and on National Public Radio’s business affairs journal Marketplace. He is the author of many academic articles published in specialist journals and books, including The Political Economy of Hope and Fear: Capitalism and the Black Condition in America (NYU Press, 1999) and The Vision of a Real Free Market Society: Re-Imagining American Freedom (Routledge, 2017).