| Post-Keynesian economics | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Institution | Professor at the University of Ottawa |
| Field | Economics |
| Alma mater | University of Ottawa |
| Opposed | Neoclassical Economists |
| 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 |
Marc Lavoie (born in 1954 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)[1] is a Quebec ex-Olympic fencing athlete and professor in economics at the University of Ottawa.
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Marc Lavoie is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa, where he started teaching in 1979. Besides having published more than 100 articles in refereed journals and more than 60 chapters in books, he has written a number of books, among which Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics (2006), translated into four languagues, 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, a book which deals with the stock-flow consistent method. 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 also 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-Nord and Paris-1, as well as Curtin University in Perth (Australia). He has lectured at the post-Keynesian summer schools in Kansas City, the Levy Institute and Berlin.[2]
Lavoie fenced at the 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics.[3][4]