Steven Pressman (economist)

Steven Pressman
Post Keynesian
Born February 23, 1952
Nationality USA
Field Post-Keynesian economics; poverty and the middle class
Influences John Maynard Keynes, John Kenneth Galbraith

Steven Pressman (born on February 23, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American economist. He is currently a Professor of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ. He has taught at the University of New Hampshire and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.[1]

He serves as co-editor of the Review of Political Economy, as Associate Editor and Book Review Editor of the Eastern Economic Journal, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Basic Income Studies.[1]

He has been on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Economic Association from 1994 to the present, and since 1996 he has served as Treasurer of the group.[1]

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Biography

Pressman attended Alfred University in upstate New York, where he received a B.A. in philosophy in 1973. He then attended Syracuse University and received an M.A. in philosophy in 1976. He went on to study economics at the New School, working with Robert Heilbroner, Edward Nell, and Vivian Walsh. He received his Ph.D. in 1983 for his work on Francois Quesnay's Tableau Économique, the first economic model.[1]

Work

He is known for his contributions to economics, particularly his work on poverty and the middle class, which documents that a thriving middle class and low rates of poverty require substantial redistributive efforts on the part of the government; his work applying the principles of Post Keynesian economics to microeconomic policy issues; his work on tax and redistribution policy and his work on the Tableau Économique.

Books

Books written

Books edited

Selected peer reviewed articles

Poverty, the middle class, and income distribution

Post-Keynesian economics

Physiocracy and the history of economic thought

Other works

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