Senior Scholar Jan Kregel is director of the Monetary Policy and Financial Structure program, and currently holds the position of Distinguished Visiting Research Professor at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri–Kansas City. He was formerly chief of the Policy Analysis and Development Branch of the United Nations Financing for Development Office and deputy secretary of the United Nations Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters. Before joining the U.N. he was professor of economics in the Università degli Studi di Bologna, as well as professor of international economics in Johns Hopkins University’s Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, where he also served as associate director of its Bologna Center from 1987 to 1990. He has published extensively, contributing over 160 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, among them:

• Rate of Profit, Distribution and Growth: Two Views, 1971;
• The Theory of Economic Growth, 1972;
• The Reconstruction of Political Economy, 1973 and 1975 (2nd ed.);
• Theory of Capital, 1976; and
• Origini e sviluppo dei mercati finanziari, 1996.

His most recent book is International Finance and Development (with J. A. Ocampo and S. Griffith-Jones), 2006.

Kregel studied primarily at the University of Cambridge, and received his Ph.D.from Rutgers University. He is a life fellow of the Royal Economic Society (U.K.), an elected member of the Società Italiana degli Economisti, and a distinguished member of the Asociacion Nacional de Economistas de Cuba.

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