W. Bentley MacLeod is a lecturer in law and fellow with the Center for the Study of Corporate Law at Yale Law School, and a senior research scientist and visiting professor at Yale University. He also serves as the Sami Mnaymneh Professor Emeritus of Economics and Professor of International & Public Affairs Emeritus at Columbia University. A labor economist specializing in organizational economics, he was the recipient of the 2002 H. Gregg Lewis prize awarded by the Society of Labor Economists for his article, “Worker Cooperation and the Ratchet,” which he co-authored with H. Lorne Carmichael. He has been on the faculty at the Queen’s University, Université de Montréal, Boston College, and University of Southern California, among others; and has held visiting positions at CORE (Belgium), IAE (Barcelona), the Russell Sage Foundation, Princeton University, and the California Institute of Technology. He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists.
In addition to his work in academia, he served as a president of the American Law and Economics Association and the Society off Institutional and Organizational Economics. He was program director for Personnel and Behavioral Economics, IZA, Bonn 2003–2007.
