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Mathew ForstaterMathew Forstater is Associate Professor of Economics and Black Studies and Director, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Department of Economics, University of Missouri —Kansas City. Forstater previously was a Visiting Scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College (1997-1999) and taught at Bard and Gettysburg College (1992-1997), where he was the recipient of a number of teaching awards and recognitions. He remains a Research Associate with the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Forstater received his B.A. (summa cum laude) in African American Studies from Temple University (1987), and an M.A. (Honors, 1993) and Ph.D. (1996) in Economics from the New School for Social Research. His Ph.D. dissertation was supervised by Robert Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers. Forstater has published widely on the Employment Policy, Political Economy, and the History of Economic Thought in academic journals such as The Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Review of Political Economy, Review of Social Economy, Review of Austrian Economics, Advances in Austrian Economics, Economic and Labour Relations Review, Economie Appliquée, Review of Black Political Economy, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, History of Economic Ideas, Forum for Social Economics, Ecological Economics, Research in Political Economy, International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment, Social Research, Economic Issues, Royal Economic Society Newsletter, and The Eastern Economic Journal, as well as chapters in edited volumes and encyclopedia entries. He has presented his research at Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University, George Mason University, Stanford, Berkeley, University of Ottawa, Copenhagen Business School, University of Leeds, University of Newcastle, University of Rome, Stellenbosch University, University of Utah, and elsewhere. Forstater co-edited Commitment to Full Employment (M.E. Sharpe, 2000), Reinventing Functional Finance (Elgar, 2003), Growth, Distribution and Effective Demand (M. E. Sharpe, 2004), Contemporary Post Keynesian Analysis (Elgar, 2004), Full Employment and Price Stability (Elgar, 2004), and Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy (Elgar, 2005). He is an affiliated faculty member of the Missouri Institute for Public Policy and an Associate of Columbia University Seminars. He is interviewed regularly in the media and speaks in the Kansas City area on topics such as reparations for African Americans, employment policy, and race, class, and health. Forstater has served as an economic advisor in a variety of contexts, including a 2002 International Labour Organization-sponsored mission to advise the Ministry of Labour of Argentina, where his proposals for increases in the minimum wage and a public employment program were made into law.. Forstater, Mathew “Taxation and Primitive Accumulation: The Case of Colonial Africa,” Research in Political Economy, Vol. 22, pp. 51-64, 2005.
Forstater, Mathew “Green Jobs: Addressing the Critical Issues Surrounding the Environment, Workplace and Employment,” International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2004.
Forstater, Mathew “Visions and Scenarios: Heilbroner’s Worldly Philosophy, Lowe’s Political Economics, and the Methodology of Ecological Economics,” Ecological Economics, Vol. 51, Nos. 1-2, pp. 17-30, 2004.
Forstater, Mathew “Envisioning Provisioning” Social Research, Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 399-418, 2004.
Forstater, Mathew “Public Employment and Environmental Sustainability,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Winter, 2003.
Forstater, Mathew “Bones for Sale: ‘Development,’ Environment, and Food Security in East Africa,” Review of Political Economy, Winter, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew “Unemployment,” in The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics, John King (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew “Markets, Knowledge, and Democracy,” History of Economic Ideas, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew “‘Jobs for All’: Another Dream of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Forum for Social Economics, Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew “Labor Surplus Models,” in J. Mokyr, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew “Bond Sales,” in Cynthia Northrup, ed., History of U.S. Economic Policy, 1600s- 2000: An Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew “Depressions,” in Cynthia Northrup, ed., History of U.S. Economic Policy, 1600s- 2000: An Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew “Government Budgets,” in Cynthia Northrup, ed., History of U.S. Economic Policy, 1600s-2000: An Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew “Recession,” in Cynthia Northrup, ed., History of U.S. Economic Policy, 1600s-2000: An Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew “Tax-Driven Money,” in M. Setterfield, ed., Complexity, Endogenous Money, and Exogenous Interest Rates, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2005.
Forstater, Mathew “Full Employment and Social Justice,” in in D. P. Champlin and J. T. Knoedler, eds., The Institutionalist Tradition in Labor Economics, Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2004.
Forstater, Mathew “‘Jobs for All’: A Fitting Tribute to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” in D. Menkart, A. D. Murray, and J. L. View, eds., Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching, Washington, D.C.: Teaching for Change and Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 2004.
Forstater, Mathew “Cumulative Causation à la Lowe: Radical Endogeneity, Methodology, and Human Intervention,” in G. Argyrous, M. Forstater, and G. Mongiovi, eds., Growth, Distribution, and Effective Demand: Alternatives to Economic Orthodoxy: Essays in Honor of Edward J. Nell, Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2004.
Forstater, Mathew “Toward a New Instrumental Macroeconomics,” in E. J. Nell and M. Forstater (eds.): Reinventing Functional Finance, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2003.
Forstater, Mathew “Functional Finance and Full Employment: Lessons from Lerner for Today,” in E. J. Nell and M. Forstater (eds.): Reinventing Functional Finance, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2003.
Forstater, Mathew "Must Spontaneous Order be Unintended?," in Science as Spontaneous Order, M.Vendelo (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2003.
Forstater, Mathew "Full Employment Policies Must Consider Effective Demand and Structural and Technological Change," in A Post Keynesian Perspective on Twenty-First Century Economic Problems, Paul Davidson (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2002. Forstater, Mathew. "Community Service Job Assurance for the Prospect Corridor
Initiative," Special Report 2001/2, Center for Full Employment and
Price Stability, University of Missouri - Kansas City (June 2001). |