Dave Strickler | L . Randall Wray Modern Money Theory Intellectual Origins and Policy Implications @DaveStricklers | Uploaded August 2016 | Updated October 2024, 5 minutes ago.
Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray is a professor of economics at Bard College. His current research focuses on providing a critique of orthodox monetary theory and policy, and the development of an alternative approach. He also publishes extensively in the areas of full employment policy and, more generally, fiscal policy. With President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, he is working to publish, or republish, the work of the late financial economist Hyman P. Minsky, and is using Minsky’s approach to analyze the current global financial crisis.

Wray is the author of Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies, 1990; Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price Stability, 1998; and Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems, 2012 (2nd rev. ed., 2015). He is also coeditor of, and a contributor to, Money, Financial Instability, and Stabilization Policy, 2006, and Keynes for the 21st Century: The Continuing Relevance of The General Theory, 2008.

Wray taught at the University of Missouri–Kansas City from 1999 to 2015 and at the University of Denver from 1987 to 1999, and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Paris and Rome (La Sapienza). He holds a BA from the University of the Pacific and an MA and a Ph.D. from Washington University, where he was a student of Minsky.