Marc Lavoie | |
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Born | 1954 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Nationality | Canadian |
Institution | Professor at the University of Ottawa |
Field | Economics |
School or tradition |
Post-Keynesian economics |
Alma mater | Carleton University |
Influences | John Maynard Keynes, Michal Kalecki, Nicholas Kaldor, Joan Robinson, Richard Kahn, Wynne Godley |
Influenced | Wynne Godley |
Contributions | Economic growth, Structural change, Monetary economics, National accounting, Economics of Ice Hockey |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
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Marc Lavoie (born in 1954) is a Canadian professor in economics at the University of Ottawa and a former Olympic fencing athlete.
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Marc Lavoie is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa, where he started teaching in 1979. He got his doctorate from the University of Paris-1. Besides having published nearly two hundred articles in refereed journals, he has written a number of books, among which are Post-Keynesian Economics: New Foundations (2014), Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics (2006), translated into four languages, Foundations of Post-Keynesian Economic Analysis (1992), as well as Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Money, Income, Production and Wealth (2007) with Wynne Godley. The latter deals with and employs in its analysis the .
With Mario Seccareccia, he has been the co-editor of three books, including one on the works of Milton Friedman, in addition to writing the first Canadian edition of the Baumol and Blinder first-year textbook (2009).
Lavoie has been the associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Political Economy (1999), and he has been a visiting professor at the universities of Bordeaux, Nice, Rennes, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lille, Paris-1 and Paris-Nord, as well as Curtin University in Perth, Australia.