Marc Lavoie

Marc Lavoie is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa, where he started teaching in 1979. He has previously been Visiting Professor at Curtin University, Australia, and at the universities of Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lille, Limoges, Nice, Rennes, Paris-1 and Paris-13, in addition to lecturing at Post-Keynesian Summer Schools at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the Levy Institute of Bard College, and the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Dr. Lavoie’s main research areas are in post-Keynesian and monetary economics. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed journals and more than 60 chapters in books, and was ranked 55th among all economists in the world based on the number of publications in EconLit surveyed journals between 1990 and 2000.

Dr. Lavoie has written a number of books, including Foundations of Post-Keynesian Economic Analysis (1992), Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics (2006), and the first Canadian edition of the Baumol and Blinder first-year textbook (2009). He has also co-edited three books with Ottawa University Economics Professor Mario Seccareccia, including Central Banking in the Modern World (2005), and in 1999 was the Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Political Economy. In 2007, Dr. Lavoie coauthored the seminal work on stock-flow consistent macroeconomic modeling, titled Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Money, Income, Production and Wealth, with the late Wynne Godley, then Professor Emeritus of Applied Economics at Cambridge University, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance.

Dr. Lavoie is a former seven-time Canadian senior sabre champion, and represented the Canadian national team for eleven years including participating twice in the Summer Olympics.