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Bio

Post-Keynesian Economist. Professor of development finance at Tallinn University of Technology, adjunct Professor at the New School for Social Research and editor of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.

He previously directed the Policy Analysis and Development Branch of the United Nations Financing for Development Office and was deputy secretary of the UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters. In 2009, Kregel served as Rapporteur of the President of the United Nations General Assembly’s Commission on Reform of the International Financial System.

His teaching career initiated with with appointments as Lecturer at the University of Bristol and Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton and visiting Professor at the Universite Catholique de Louvain. After an interim as Senior Advisor to the Centro Studi of the Confindustria in Roma, he was appointed Professor of Economics at Livingston College of Rutgers University, and then as Gewoon Hoogleraar at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

In the late 1980s and 1990s he also held the Chair of political economy at the Università degli Studi di Bologna and was professor of international economics at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, where he was also associate director of its Bologna Center from 1987 to 1990.

Kregel has contributed over 250 articles to edited volumes and scholarly journals, including the Economic Journal, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Economie Appliquée, and Giornale degli Economisti. His major works include a series of books on economic theory, including Rate of Profit, Distribution and Growth: Two Views, 1971; The Theory of Economic Growth, 1972; The Reconstruction of Political Economy, 1973; Theory of Capital, 1976; and Origini e sviluppo dei mercati finanziari, 1996. His most recent book is Ragnar Nurkse: Trade and Development (with R. Kattel and E. S. Reinert), 2009.

Kregel studied under Joan Robinson and Nicholas Kaldor at the University of Cambridge in the late 1960s, and received his Ph.D. in 1970 from Rutgers University under the chairmanship of Paul Davidson.

He is a life fellow of the Royal Economic Society (UK) and an elected member of the Società Italiana degli Economisti and the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Veblen-Commons Award by the Association for Evolutionary Economics for his many contributions to the economics field.