Michael Hudson

= historian of the financial economy

URL = https://michael-hudson.com/

Bio

Via Geert Callens:

"Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of The Bubble and Beyond (2012), Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971).

ISLET engages in research regarding domestic and international finance, national income and balance-sheet accounting with regard to real estate, and the economic history of the ancient Near East.

Michael acts as an economic advisor to governments worldwide including Iceland, Latvia and China on finance and tax law. He gives presentations on various topics at conferences and meetings and can be booked here. Listen to some of his many radio interviews to hear his hyperspeed analysis of the geo-political machinations of global economics. Travel costs and a per diem are appreciated."

Work History

Michael Hudson:

"Most of my professional life since 1962 has been spent in applying flow-of-funds and balance-of-payments statistics to forecast interest rates, capital and real estate markets. Academically, my focus has been on financial history and, since 1980, on writing a history of debt, land tenure and related economic institutions from Sumerian times through antiquity and feudal Europe to the present.

1996-present: President, Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (ISLET). Since 1998 my reports on dollar-yen relations and Japan’s financial bubble have been published monthly in Japan. These, along with my major books, have been translated and published in Japanese. In Russia I wrote a series of reports and testified on numerous occasions before the Duma with regard to its land policy and financial reforms. For the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association I produced a series of reports on the financial dimension of technology assessment, and for U.S. clients I traced the recycling of savings into mortgage credit and other financial markets.

My second duty at ISLET has been to organize and co-edit a series of conferences on the evolution of property and credit since the Bronze Age. I chaired conferences on the Mesopotamian roots of urbanization, interest-bearing debt and land redistribution, the origins of account-keeping and money, at New York University, the Oriental Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia), Columbia University, and the British Museum. The first conference, held in November 1994, was on Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical World (published by Harvard University, Peabody Museum, 1996), followed by Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near East (Peabody Museum, 1999), Debt and Economic Renewal in the Ancient Near East (CDL Press, 2002), and Origins of Account-Keeping and Money in the Ancient Near East (CDL Press, in press)."

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