Contact Info

University of Missouri Kansas City
Department of Economics
211 Haag Hall
5120 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110

Stephanie A. Kelton

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Stephanie A. Kelton is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Director of Graduate Student Research at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (CFEPS).

She is a Research Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Dr. Kelton has a B.S. in Business Finance and a B.A. in Economics, both from California State University, Sacramento(1995). After finishing her undergraduate degrees, she completed an M.Phil in Economics at Cambridge University, England(1997). She then spent a year at The Levy Economics Institute on a fellowship she won through Christ’s College, Cambridge.

While at the Levy Institute, she wrote a number of papers that became part of her Ph.D. dissertation at the New School for Social Research (April 2001), titled Public Policy and Government Finance: A Comparative Analysis Under Different Monetary Systems. She is creator and editor of New Economic Perspectives, a top-ranked economics blog, and has been featured in: Common Dreams, Business Insider, Truthdig, Counter Punch, Wall St. Pit, Credit Writedowns, and many more.

Issues: Anti-Poverty programs, Anti-Trust Regulations, Bank Bail Out, Bank Bonuses, Banking and Finance, Developing Economies, Economic Mobility, Family/Medical leave, Fannie/Freddie, Financial Markets, Globalization, Healthcare, Housing Market Collapse, International Competition, Jobs, Labor Force, Living Wage, Medicare/Medicaid, Middle Class, OSHA, Ratings Agencies, Retirement, Securitization, Social Investment, Social Security, The Federal Reserve, Too Big To Fail, Trade, Unemployment Insurance, Unions, US Infrastructure, Welfare, Workforce Development

Experience:

• Director of Graduate Student Research, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Present
• Creator and Editor, New Economic Perspectives, Present
• Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Present
• Fellow, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Present

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, New School for Social Research
M.Phil., Economics, Cambridge University
B.A., Economics, California State University
B.S., Business Finance, California State University