Jane D’Arista wrote and lectured on economics and finance. She served as a staff economist for the Banking and Commerce Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives, as a principal analyst in the international division of the Congressional Budget Office, and lectured in graduate programs at Boston University School of Law, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Utah and the New School University. Her publications include a two-volume history of U.S. monetary policy and financial regulation as well as studies of international and domestic monetary systems, financial restructuring, the U.S. international investment position, and capital flows to emerging economies. Jane passed away in 2026.