Michael Meeropol

Michael Meeropol (born Michael Rosenberg on March 10, 1943) is an American economist, author, radio commentator, and retired professor of economics. He is professor emeritus of economics at Western New England University and has written extensively on United States economic policy, including the book Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution and, with Howard J. Sherman, the textbook Principles of Macroeconomics: Activist vs. Austerity Policies. He is also known, together with his brother Robert Meeropol, for efforts to reassess the prosecution and execution of their parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951.