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.

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

Data downloads across all of these are gathered at files.heterodata.org, and every site is indexed on the hub: heterodata.org.

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

Nick

Last compiled: 2026-08-27