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His fields are public policy, political economy, money and banking, and macroeconomics. He has commented in the past on the wide gap between rich and poor, the racial and cultural rifts in banking practices, the rise of check cashing places in poor neighborhoods, and financial regulation and politics, including the history of the current financial meltdown. Quote from a paper he authored: “If institutions which neither behave as depositories nor have depositories‘ balance sheets are given protections previously reserved to depositories, while those doing the work of depositories face rising failure rates and stagnant local economies, then banking has emerged into a through-the-looking-glass world, where nothing is as it appears. Whether such a state of affairs can persist, and even serve as the basis of new rounds of bank consolidation, depends on many factors, including how uncertainty about bank regulation is resolved in Europe and on how the the scope of banking activity, risk, and guarantees is defined in the emerging mega-economies of China, India, and Brazil. As Casey Stengel once put it, most of our future lies ahead of us.”

Gary A. Dymski is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of "The Bank Merger Wave: The Economic Causes and Social Consequences of Financial Consolidation."

* 2003-09 Director, University of California Center in Sacramento * 2003 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil * 2001-02 Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Humanities , Arts, and Social Sciences, University of California, Riverside * 2001-10 Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside * 2010 Visiting Professor, CEDEPLAR, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Federal Fluminense University, Niteroi, Brazil, and Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * 2009 Visiting Scholar, Center for Urban & Regional Developmt Studies, University of Newcastle, UK * 2009 Visiting Scholar, Doctoral Program in Economics, University of Athens, Greece * 2008 Visiting Scholar, CEDEPLAR, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil * 2005 Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in Development, Society and Agriculture, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * 2001, 2003 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil * 2000 Visiting Scholar, Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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