Paul Davidson (economist)
| Paul Davidson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 23, 1930 Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition |
Post-Keynesian economics |
| Alma mater |
Brooklyn College (BS, 1950) University of Pennsylvania (PhD, 1959) City University of New York (MBA, 1955) |
| Influences | John Maynard Keynes, Sidney Weintraub |
| Contributions | Co-founding editor of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Paul Davidson (born October 23, 1930) is an American macroeconomist who has been one of the leading spokesmen of the American branch of the Post Keynesian school in economics. He is a prolific writer and has actively intervened in important debates on economic policy (natural resources, international monetary system, developing countries' debt) from a position that is very critical of mainstream economics.
Davidson did not originally choose economics as a profession. His primary training was in both chemistry and biology, for which he received B.Sc. degrees from Brooklyn College in 1950. He was a graduate student in biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, but switched to economics, receiving his MBA from the City University of New York in 1955, and completing his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1959.
Davidson is Holly Professor of Excellence, Emeritus at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Schwartz Center For Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. Besides the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Tennessee, and the New School, Davidson has taught economics at Rutgers University, Bristol University, and the University of Cambridge. In the early 1960s he worked at Continental Oil Company.
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