Dan Hirschman

Dan Hirschman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, with affiliations in the Science & Technology Studies program. His research explores the intersection of expertise, inequality, and political economy.

• Affiliations: College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University
• Academic Rank: Associate Professor
• Contact: dan.hirschman@cornell.edu

His research spans topics such as the history of inequality metrics (e.g., gender wage gaps, racial wealth gaps, and the 1% phenomenon), corporate political activity, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy debates. Current projects include a book Unequal Knowledge: The Stylized Facts of Inequality (under contract with Columbia University Press) and work on climate cost estimation.

Dan collaborates across methodological traditions, integrating historical analysis with quantitative, interview, and ethnographic approaches. His recent publications address market actions as political tools, the social construction of economic data, and racial biases in financial classification systems.

At Cornell, he teaches courses in social theory, race and racism, and economic sociology. His dissertation Inventing the Economy, Or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the GDP was supported by an NSF grant.