Stephanie Kelton

Stephanie Bell Kelton
Stephanie Kelton
Born	1969 (age 47–48)

Institution	University of Missouri–Kansas City
School or tradition	Post-Keynesian economics
Alma mater	California State University, Sacramento (B.S., B.A., 1995) University of Cambridge (M.Phil, 1997) The New School (Ph.D., 2001)
Contributions	Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

Stephanie Kelton née Bell (born 1969) is an American economist and a professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. She is a leading proponent of Modern Monetary Theory. As such she was named one of Politico's 50 "thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2016."

Kelton studied Business Finance and Economics at the California State University, Sacramento, earning a B.S. and a B.A. in 1995. She received a Rotary scholarship to study Economics at the University of Cambridge, receiving her Master in 1997. On a fellowship from Christ's College, Cambridge, Kelton then spent a year at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from The New School in 2001 with her dissertation, "Public Policy and Government Finance: A Comparative Analysis Under Different Monetary Systems."

Kelton teaches Economics as an associate professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City since 1999. She's a research scholar at the UMKC Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and the Levy Economics Institute in upstate New York.

Kelton is editor-in-chief of the New Economic Perspectives blog.