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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Alpert > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Alpert.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Alpert > Source revision: 1342282957 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}} {{short description|American investment banker}} {{Infobox person | name = Daniel Alpert | image = Dan Alpert Headshot.jpg | alma_mater = [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania) | years_active = 1982-present{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/author/daniel-alpert|title=Daniel Alpert|work=Business Insider}} | employer = Westwood Capital | known_for = U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index }} '''Daniel Alpert''' is an American [investment banker](/source/Investment_banking), adjunct professor at [Cornell Law School](/source/Cornell_Law_School), commentator, and author.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-16/coronavirus-employers-sick-leave|title=Column: Some employers are doing the right thing in the coronavirus crisis. Some aren't|work=Los Angeles Times |first=Michael |last=Hiltzik |date=March 16, 2020}} He is a co-creator of the United States Private Sector Job Quality Index, an economic metric that measures of higher wage versus lower wage [private sector](/source/private_sector) jobs, and the author of ''The Age of Oversupply: Confronting the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy''.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-jobs-are-getting-worse-according-to-a-new-economic-measure/|title=American jobs are getting worse, new economic index shows|work=CBS News}} Alpert is a founding partner of Westwood Capital LLC, an investment firm based in New York, and an adviser to the [Coalition for a Prosperous America](/source/Coalition_for_a_Prosperous_America).{{Cite web|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90468842/new-analysis-income-growth-declines-for-poor-americans-stalls-under-trump|title=News analysis: Income growth declines for poor Americans under Trump|first=Jessica|last=Goodheart|date=February 27, 2020|website=Fast Company}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/business/dealbook/bitcoin-price-crash.html|title=DealBook Briefing: Blue Apron's Co-Founder Steps Down as C.E.O. (Published 2017)|newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 30, 2017}} Alpert is a member of the World Economic Roundtable.{{cite web |title=Institute for New Economic Thinking: Daniel Alpert |url=https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/experts/dalpert |publisher=Institute for New Economic Thinking |access-date=January 4, 2021 }} == Biography == Alpert received a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) degree in [public policy](/source/public_policy) from the [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania), and started working in commercial real estate banking and finance in 1982. He was a banker and partner at [Oppenheimer & Co., Inc.](/source/Oppenheimer_Holdings), before founding a New York-based investment firm, Westwood Capital, in 1995.{{cite web |publisher=Westwood Capital |url=http://www.westwoodcapital.com/ourpeople/daniel-alpert/ |title=Our People: Dan Alpert |website=westwoodcapital.com |accessdate=January 4, 2021}} During that time, Alpert worked on international merchant banking, bankruptcy-related restructuring transactions, [commercial mortgage backed securities](/source/commercial_mortgage_backed_securities) (CMBS) and mortgage [REIT](/source/REIT)s.{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB89648293325275500|title=They're Ba-a-a-ck, Sort Of: Mortgage REITs|work=Wall Street Journal}} In 2010, Alpert was a featured commentator on the story of the [2008 financial crisis](/source/2008_financial_crisis) in the documentary film ''[Inside Job](/source/Inside_Job_(2010_film))''. In January 2012, he was announced as a fellow of [The Century Foundation](/source/The_Century_Foundation).{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/think-tanked/post/the-century-foundation-to-announce-new-fellows/2012/01/18/gIQAH7Gv7P_blog.html|title=The Century Foundation to announce new fellows|first=Allen|last=McDuffee|date=January 18, 2012 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} In February 2018, Cornell Law School announced that Alpert would be a senior fellow in financial macroeconomics and an adjunct professor of law within the Clarke Program.{{Cite press release|url=https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/spotlights/daniel-alpert-joins-cornell-law.cfm|title=Daniel Alpert Joins Cornell Law School as Senior Fellow in Financial Macroeconomics|website=www.lawschool.cornell.edu |accessdate=January 4, 2021}} He was also named to the advisory board of the Cornell Research Academy of Development, Law and Economics (CRADLE).{{cite web|url=http://128.253.53.20/cradle|title=Cornell Research Academy of Development, Law, and Economics (CRADLE)|work=Cornell University}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ==Authorship== Following the [2008 financial crisis](/source/2008_financial_crisis), Alpert became a cited author on economic policy and the [credit bubble](/source/United_States_housing_bubble). He started writing for ''[Business Insider](/source/Business_Insider)'' in 2011. That same year, Alpert conceived of, and co-authored along with [Nouriel Roubini](/source/Nouriel_Roubini), [New York University](/source/New_York_University) Professor of Economics, and Robert Hockett, a Professor of Financial Law at [Cornell University](/source/Cornell_University), a widely cited and debated [white paper](/source/white_paper) on behalf of the New America Foundation entitled ''The Way Forward'' that has been credited on most sides of the macroeconomic debate with providing a clear and concise explanation of the issues that led to the [2008 financial crisis](/source/2008_financial_crisis).{{cite news | last = Nocera | first = Joe | title = This Time, It Really Is Different | newspaper = The New York Times | date = October 10, 2011| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/opinion/this-time-it-really-is-different.html }} In 2013, he released ''The Age of Oversupply: Confronting the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy'' on the effect of macroeconomic imbalances on advanced economies.{{cite news | last = Lenzner | first = Robert | title = A $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Creates 27 Million Jobs In 5 Years | newspaper = Forbes | date = October 23, 2011| url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2011/10/23/the-u-s-wont-be-able-to-grow-again-until-2016-18/ }} In 2016, he published the white paper ''GLUT: The U.S. Economy and the American Worker in the Age of Oversupply'' on the connection between global imbalances and United States employment, and co-authored ''The Debt Goes On: A Post-Crisis 'Progress' Report'' at Cornell. Alpert was a co-author of the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index in 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/coronavirus-has-infected-the-economy-hitting-hourly-workers-and-small-business-owners-the-hardest.html|title=Coronavirus has infected the economy, hitting hourly workers and small business owners the hardest|work=Penn Live|date=March 30, 2020 }} ==Selected publications== *{{cite journal | last1 = Alpert | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Roubini | first2 = Nouriel | last3 = Hockett | first3 = Robert C. | date = October 10, 2011 | title = The Way Forward | url = http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/the_way_forward | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | doi = | access-date = | archive-date = July 11, 2012 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120711200159/http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/the_way_forward | url-status = dead }} *{{cite book | last = Alpert | first = Daniel | title = The Age of Oversupply: Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy | publisher = [Penguin Portfolio](/source/Penguin_Group) |date=September 2013 | isbn = 978-1591845966 }} *{{cite journal | last = Alpert | first = Daniel | date = April 4, 2016 | title = GLUT: The U.S. Economy and the American Worker in the Age of Oversupply | url = https://www.thirdway.org/report/glut-the-u-s-economy-and-the-american-worker-in-the-age-of-oversupply | journal = Third Way | volume = | issue = | pages = | doi = | access-date = }} *{{cite journal | last1 = Alpert | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Hockett | first2 = Robert C. | date = September 13, 2016 | title = The Debt Goes On: A Post-Crisis 'Progress' Report | url = https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2837929 | journal = Cornell Legal Studies | volume = | issue = | pages = 32 | doi = | ssrn = 2837929 | access-date = }} *{{cite journal | last1 = Alpert | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Ferry | first2 = Jeff | last3 = Hockett | first3 = Robert C. | last4 = Khaleghiyan | first4 = Amir | date = April 8, 2020 | title = The U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index | url = https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566575 | journal = Cornell Legal Studies | volume = | issue = | pages = 55 | doi = | ssrn = 3566575 | access-date = }} == References == {{reflist|2}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpert, Daniel}} Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Businesspeople from New York City --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Daniel Alpert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Alpert) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Alpert?action=history)). 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