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Richard P.F. Holt (born December 5, 1953)

Background

Richard P.F. Holt is an award-winning writer and professor of economics at Southern Oregon University. He has authored, co-authored and edited a number of books, two of which were named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Title for the years 2005 and 2010: The Changing Face of Economics (University of Michigan 2004) and Local Economic Development in the 21st Century: Quality of Life and Sustainability (Routledge 2010). Recently he has edited two important volumes, Post Keynesian and Ecological Economics: Confronting Environmental Issues (Edward Elgar 2009) and A Brighter Future: Increasing the Standard of Living Now and for the Next Generation (Routledge 2014). He has published over sixty articles and book reviews in a variety of academic journals, along with serving on different editorial boards. His research areas include environmental and ecological economics, Post Keynesian economics, history of economic thought and complexity economics. His present projects are editing the letters by John Kenneth Galbraith for Cambridge University Press and a book about the political times and friendship of William F. Buckley, Jr. and J. Kenneth Galbraith. He grew up in Monterey, California and did his undergraduate work at Occidental College in philosophy and classics and graduate work at University of Utah and University of California at Berkeley in economics. He now lives in Ashland, Oregon.

Select Publications

“Defining the Standard of Living: Income, Quality of Life and Sustainability,”A Brighter Future. M.E. Sharpe, 2014.

“Opportunity and Mobility: The American Dream and the Standard of Living.” A Brighter Future. M.E. Sharpe, 2014.

“Sustainable Development,” An Introduction to Macroeconomics: A Heterodox Approach to Economic Analysis, 2016.

“Negative Trickle Down, the Financial Crisis of 2008 and Prospects for Recovery,” Journal of Economic Issues, June, 2012.

“Is European Economics Following the Wrong Path?,” European Financial Review, fall, 2011.

“Growth and Inequality: When “Trickle Down” Becomes Negative,” Journal of Economic Issues, with Daphne T. Greenwood, June, 2010.

“Addressing Environmental Problems: Is There a Market Solution?” Introducing Microeconomic Analysis: Issues, Questions and Competing Views, Edmond Montgomery Publication, 2010.

“European Economics at a Crossroads,” European Economics at a Crossroads, Edward Elgar Press, with Barkley Rosser, Jr. and David Colander, 2010.

“The Complexity Revolution in Economics,” European Economics at a Crossroads, Edward Elgar Press, with Barkley Rosser, Jr. and David Colander, 2010.

“Post Keynesian and Ecological Economics: Alternative Perspectives on Sustainability and Environmental Economics,” in Post Keynesian and Ecological Economics: Confronting Environmental Issues Edward Elgar, 2010.

“How to Win Friends and (Possibly) Influence Mainstream Economists,” The Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 32, NO.3, Spring, 2010.

“The Complexity Era of Economics,” with Barkley Rosser, Jr. and David Colander, Review of Political Economy, Vol. 23, Number 3, July, 2011.

“The Post-Keynesian Critique of the Mainstream Theory of the state and the Post-Keynesian Approaches to Economic Policy,” in the Handbook of Post-Keynesian Economics, general editor: G.C. Harcourt, Oxford University Press, 2013.

“Nicholas Kaldor and cumulative causation: public policy implications,” The Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Economics: the Principle of Circular and Cumulative Causation, edited by Sebastian Berger, Routledge Press, 2009.

“The relevance of Post-Keynesian economics to sustainable development,” Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation, edited by Philip Lawn, Routledge Press, 2009.

“Growth, Development and Quality of Life: Mainstream and Heterodox Approaches,” in Economic Pluralism, edited by Robert Garnet, Erik Olsen and Martha Starr, Routledge Press, with Daphne T. Greenwood, 2010.

“Nicholas Kaldor and his Principle of Cumulative Causation: Public Policy Implications,” the Journal of Economic Issues, June 2008 with Steven Pressman.

“Institutional and Ecological Economics: the Role of Technology and Institutions,” the Journal of Economic Issues, June 2008 with Daphne T. Greenwood.

“Live and Dead Issues in the Methodology of Economics,” with David Colander and Barkley Rosser Jr. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Winter 2007–8, Vol. 30, No. 2 161.

“Banana Parable,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by William Darity, Jr., Macmillan Press, 2008.

“The Changing Face of Economics, The Long Term View, Vol. 7, #1, Spring, 2008, with D.Colander and J.B. Rosser, Jr.

“What is Post Keynesian Economics,” Macroeconomics: Honoring Ingrid Rima, edited by Steven Pressman, Mat Forstater and Gary Mongiovi, Macmillan Press, 2007.

“Empirical Analysis and Post Keynesian Economics,” Empirical Post Keynesian Economics: Looking at the Real World, with Steven Pressman, M.E. Sharpe, 2007.

"Post Keynesian Economics and Sustainable Development," International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, Vol. X, 2005

"The Changing Face of Mainstream Economics," Review of Political Economy, Vol. 16, Number 4, October 2004. (Recognized as one of the best 25 articles published in the Review of Political Economy over the past quarter century).

“Teaching Post Keynesian Economics to Undergraduate Students,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 26, No. 1 Fall, 2003.

"The Literary Influences on Keynes's Writings," Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, Greenwood Press, 2004.

"The Literary Influences on John Kenneth Galbraith's Writings," Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, Greenwood Press, 2004.

"Keynesian Comparative Economics: The Iconoclastic Revisionism of Lynn Turgeon," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 62, No. 3, July 2003.

"What is Post Keynesian Economics?" in A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics, Richard Holt and Steven Pressman, Routledge Press, 2001.

"The Dissent of Economists: A Response" History of Economics Review, No. 30, summer, 1999.

"Time," Routledge Encyclopedia of Political Economy, edited by Phil O'Hara, Routledge Press, 1999.

"Paul Davidson: The Truest Keynesian?" The Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 24, No.4, Fall, 1998.

"William Vickrey’s Legacy: Innovative Policies for Social Concerns," The Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 24, No.1, winter 1998.

"Economics and its Discontents: An Introduction,” Economics and its Discontents: Twentieth Century Dissenting Economists, co-edited with Steven Pressman, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aldershot, U.K., 1998.

"Post Keynesian School of Economics," Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics, edited by T. Cate, D. Colander, and G. Harcourt, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aldershot, U.K., 1997.

"Maurice Dobb as an Interpreter of the Classical Economists," in Heinz Kurz and Neri Salvadori, eds.,The Elgar Companion to Classical Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aldershot, U.K., 1998.

"The 1982 Reforms and the Employment Conditions of Mexican Women," in Aslanbeigui, Pressman and Summerfield, eds., Women in the Age of Economic Transformation, Routledge Press, 1994.