Robert Blecker
Professor of Economics, American University

Education
B.A., Yale University, 1978
M.A., Stanford University, 1983
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987

Research Interests
International trade and finance, open economy macroeconomics, trade and development, U.S. trade policy, North American trade, post-Keynesian and neo-Kaleckian economic theory, and history of economic thought.

Books and Monographs

• U.S. Trade Policy and Global Growth: New Directions in the International Economy (Editor). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc. for the Economic Policy Institute, 1996.
• Taming Global Finance: A Better Architecture for Growth and Equity. Washington: Economic Policy Institute, 1999.
• Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy, Second Edition. (Co-authored with Stephen D. Cohen and Peter D. Whitney). Boulder: Westview, 2003.

Recent Working Papers and Policy Statements

• "International Capital Mobility, Macroeconomic Imbalances, and the Risk of Global Contraction," Working Paper 1998-10, Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New School University, June 1998, amended November 2000.
• "The Ticking Debt Bomb: Why the U.S. International Financial Position Is Not Sustainable," Briefing Paper, Economic Policy Institute, June 1999.
• "The Causes of the U.S. Trade Deficit," Statement to the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission, Washington DC, August 1999.
• "The Benefits of a Lower Dollar: How The High Dollar Has Hurt U.S. Manufacturing Producers and Why The Dollar Still Needs to Fall Further," Brieifing Paper, Economic Policy Institute, May 2003.
• “Global Keynesianism Versus the New Mercantilism: International Economics After Joan Robinson,” paper presented at the Joan Robinson Centennial Conference, University of Vermont, Burlington, October 2003.
• "The North American Economies After NAFTA: A Critical Appraisal," revised version of paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association meetings, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2004. Forthcoming in International Journal of Political Economy, special issue on "Critical Perspectives on a Decade of Globalization in North American under NAFTA," 2005.
• "The Economic Consequences of Dollar Appreciation for U.S. Manufacturing Profits and Investment: A Time-Series Analysis," Working Paper, June 2004.