Nick Anderson

Economics at The New School

A three-part institutional and intellectual history of The New School’s economics department — who taught there, what they argued, and how the department changed American economics. A 121-page draft of Part 1 is available on request.

My work on this site

Research

My empirical work on public finance and economic history — three papers, each summarized with its full original treatment and figures on the same page.

AI Tools

The open-source research tooling I built for AI-assisted empirical economics, with links to the GitHub repositories.

Projects · Data · About · Contact

Code repositories, datasets and sources, who I am, and how to reach me.

The Heterodata suite

The Heterodata suite is built agent-first: an AI-driven research workflow designs, constructs, and documents every site, and every number on them traces to a documented source. The interactive demos are self-hosted; I am migrating the server right now, so some are temporarily offline. The source code for every project is on GitHub and linked below, so the work is always viewable.

Live demos

Foodberg — global food and commodity price explorer.
HMDA Explore — a dashboard over Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data on U.S. mortgage lending.
JJ Muni — Westchester County sidewalk-coverage web map, tract by tract.
NYC Visualizer — live New York City transit map and sidewalk accessibility.
Gerhard (demo temporarily offline) — the history and present of American public finance: taxation, spending, and debt over time.
Shaikh Data (demo temporarily offline) — replications of Anwar Shaikh’s Capitalism and Measuring the Wealth of Nations, with interactive charts, downloads, and full provenance.
Lewis (demo temporarily offline) — international economics: balance-of-payments and cross-border value transfers across the world’s economies.
Leontief (demo temporarily offline) — U.S. input–output accounts; compute and inspect the Leontief inverse across sectors.
Vlad (demo temporarily offline) — the official statistics of the Soviet Union and Imperial Russia.
Myrdal (demo temporarily offline) — population as a cause of economic outcomes: the long-run demographic transition.
Race (demo temporarily offline) — race, stratification, and economic disparities in the United States.
Gordon (demo temporarily offline) — U.S. employment and inflation on BLS, BEA, and Federal Reserve primary data.
Erwin (demo temporarily offline) — military spending as an endogenous feature of capitalism.
FreeNIC (demo temporarily offline) — bank-level U.S. financial-data explorer: failures, FRED series, and active institutions; bulk data free.
Methodex (demo temporarily offline) — a public-domain economic-statistics methodology layer.

Source code (GitHub) — every project’s code, always available: Gerhard · Shaikh Data · Lewis · Leontief · Vlad · Myrdal · Race · Gordon · Erwin · FreeNIC · Foodberg · HMDA Explore · Methodex · JJ Muni · NYC Visualizer.

The hub at heterodata.org and the data downloads at files.heterodata.org are live.

Thank you and let me know if you have any questions!

Nick