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

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. He is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS (SAIS), whose

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

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. 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

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. Kregel studied mainly at the

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(with

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and

Nicholas Kaldor Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (12 May 1908 – 30 September 1986), born Káldor Miklós, was a Hungarian-born British economist. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare spending, welfare comparisons ...

) 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

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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 Johns Hopkins University faculty Modern monetary theory scholars People from Dallas Post-Keynesian economists Academic staff of the Tallinn University of Technology University of Missouri–Kansas City faculty