Lucas Bernard is a financial economist and a member of the Board of Trustees[1] of the Henry George School of Social Science.

[3] He grew up in New York City and is the son of playwright Kenneth Bernard and Elaine Ceil Reiss.

[4] Professor Bernard's recent research has moved away from the traditional mathematical models,[5][6] popular with economists, and more towards the role of economics as a sub-discipline of sociology.

Bernard is interested in the ways in which economics blends together human values, politics, rationality and irrationality; more specifically, how this interplay reveals itself in society at large.

[8] His doctoral dissertation, concerning endogenous models of credit default, was written at The New School for Social Research[9] under Willi Semmler.