BIO

Stephanie Kelton has a B.S. in Business Administration (Finance concentration) and a B.A. in Economics, both from California State University, Sacramento. She earned an M.Phil. in economics at Cambridge University while on a Rotary Scholarship. In 1998 she spent spent a year at The Levy Economics Institute on a fellowship she won through Christ's College, Cambridge. She completed her Ph.D. at the New School for Social Research. Currently, she works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and a Research Scholar at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (C-FEPS). Her new book (edited with Edward J. Nell), The State, The Market, and the Euro: Metallism versus Chartalism in the Theory of Money, is available through Edward Elgar Press. She has contributed chapters to numerous edited volumes and has published articles in the Journal of Economic Issues, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, the Review of Social Economy and the International Journal of Political Economy. Her primary research interests include monetary theory, international economics, employment policy, social security, and European monetary integration.