Jan A. Kregel (born 19 April 1944) is an American

post-Keynesian Post-Keynesian economics is a school of economic thought with its origins in '' The General Theory'' of John Maynard Keynes, with subsequent development influenced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Sidney ...

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. Kregel has served since 2006 as Professor of Finance and Development at

Tallinn University of Technology Established in 1918, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech; et, Tallinna Tehnikaülikool) is the only technical university in Estonia. TalTech, in the capital city of Tallinn, is a university for engineering, business, public administrati ...

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. He is an adjunct professor at

Johns Hopkins SAIS The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., United States, with campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China. It is consistently ranked one of ...

(SAIS), whose

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he co-directed in the late 1980s, and a visiting professor at the

University of Missouri–Kansas City The University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) is a public research university in Kansas City, Missouri. UMKC is part of the University of Missouri System and one of only two member universities with a medical school. As of 2020, the university ...

. He is also one of the Senior Scholars at the

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. Until 2007, he was Chief of the Policy Analysis and Development Branch of the Financing for Development Office of

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. Until 2004, he was High Level Expert in International Finance and Macroeconomics in the New York Liaison Office of UNCTAD, being in essence its chief economist. For many years, he held the Chair for

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at the University of Bologna. Kregel studied mainly at the

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(with

Joan Robinson Joan Violet Robinson (''née'' Maurice; 31 October 1903 – 5 August 1983) was a British economist well known for her wide-ranging contributions to economic theory. She was a central figure in what became known as post-Keynesian economics. ...

and

Nicholas Kaldor Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (12 May 1908 – 30 September 1986), born Káldor Miklós, was a Cambridge economist in the post-war period. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939), ...

) and

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( Ph.D. 1970 under supervision of Paul Davidson). He is a Life Fellow of the

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in London and in 2000 he co-founded The Other Canon, a center and network for

heterodox economics Heterodox economics is any economic thought or theory that contrasts with orthodox schools of economic thought, or that may be beyond neoclassical economics.Frederic S. Lee, 2008. "heterodox economics," '' The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economic ...

research, with main founder and executive chairman Erik Reinert. Kregel is the Program Director for the Master of Science in Economic Theory and Policy of the

. The Program was started in 2014.

Publications

* ''Rate of Profit, Distribution and Growth: Two Views''. London: Macmillan; Chicago: Aldine, 1971 * ''The Theory of Economic Growth''. London: Macmillan, 1972 * ''The Reconstruction of Political Economy''. London: Macmillan, 1973 * ''The Theory of Capital''. London: Macmillan, 1976 * ''Market Shock: An Agenda for Economic and Social Reconstruction of Central and Eastern Europe''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992 (with others) * ''Economic Development and Financial Instability: Selected Essays''. London: Anthem, 2014

References

External links

Jan Kregel on the portal RAI Economy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kregel, Jan 1944 births Living people Fellows of the Royal Economic Society Johns Hopkins University faculty Modern monetary theory scholars People from Dallas Post-Keynesian economists Tallinn University of Technology faculty University of Missouri–Kansas City faculty