Jan A. Kregel is distinguished research professor at the Center for Full Employent and Price Stability, University of Missouri–Kansas City. He has recently retired as chief of the Policy Analysis and Development Branch, United Nations Financing for Development Office; and as deputy secretary of the United Nations Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters. Before joining the United Nations, he was professor of economics in the Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy, as well as professor of international economics, Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, where he served as associate director of the Bologna Center from 1987 to 1990. A life fellow of the Royal Economic Society (U.K.), an elected member of the Società Italiana degli Economisti, and a Miembro Distinguido of the Association of Cuban Economists, his biographical entries appear in all editions of Who’s Who in Economics, and recent editions of Who’s Who in Europe (now European Biographical Dictionary, Who’s Who in the World, as well as La Pensée Economique depuis Keynes: Historique et Dictionaire des principaux auteurs [M. Beaud and G. Dostaler, eds.]). Among his major published works are a series of books in economic theory including Rate of Profit, Distribution and Growth: Two Views (Macmillan, 1971), Theory of Growth (Macmillan, 1972), The Reconstruction of Political Economy (Macmillan 1973; 2nd edition, 1975), Theory of Capital (1976), and Origini e sviluppo dei mercati finanzieri (1996), as well as more than 150 articles published as chapters of edited books and in scholarly journals, including Economic Journal, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Economie Appliquée, and Giornale degli Economisti. Kregel’s works have been published or translated in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Basque, Portuguese, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, Finnish, Hungarian, Serbo-Croat, Hindi, and Ukrainian