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Stephanie Kelton went to which school from 1995 to 1997?
Stephanie Kelton Stephanie Kelton ( née Bell ; born October 10 , 1969 ) is an American economist and academic . She is a professor at Stony Brook University and a Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research . She was formerly a professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City . She also served as an advisor to Bernie Sanderss 2016 presidential campaign . She is founder and editor-in-chief of the blog New Economic Perspectives . She was named one of Politicos 50 thinkers , doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2016 . In fall 2019 , she joined the board of Matriarch PAC . Education . Kelton studied business finance and economics at California State University , Sacramento , earning a B.S . and a B.A . in 1995 . She received a Rotary scholarship to study economics at the University of Cambridge , receiving her Masters degree in 1997 . On a fellowship from Christs College , Cambridge , Kelton then spent a year at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College . She obtained a Ph.D . in economics from The New School for Social Research in 2001 with her dissertation , Public Policy and Government Finance : A Comparative Analysis Under Different Monetary Systems . Employment . Kelton is a professor of public policy and economics at Stony Brook University and was formerly the chair of the economics department at the University of Missouri–Kansas City . She was a research scholar at the UMKC Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and the Levy Economics Institute in upstate New York . Kelton is editor-in-chief of the New Economic Perspectives blog . On December 26 , 2014 , Kelton was designated Chief Economist for the Democratic Minority Staff of the Senate Budget Committee , a post she held in 2015 and early 2016 , when she left that position to become an economic advisor to the Bernie Sanders campaign . On May 25 , 2017 , Stony Brook University announced that Kelton would join the university This fall as a professor in the forthcoming Center for the Study of Inequality and Social Justice . She joined Stony Brook at the same time as her husband Paul , who was appointed the first Robert David Lion Gardiner Chair in American history , at the College of Arts and Sciences . In 2019 , Kelton was invited to be the Geoff Harcourt Visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide . Research . Keltons primary research interests include monetary theory , employment policy , history of economic monetary thought , social security , public finance , fiscal policy , financial accounting , international finance , and European monetary integration . She has been a notable proponent of and researcher in Modern Monetary Theory , publishing several papers and editing books in the field , and a supporter of the proposal for a Job Guarantee . In the media . Kelton publishes formally as well as in the popular press and appears on mass media . She has been a frequent guest on television and radio , including MSNBCs Up with Chris Hayes and NPRs On Point . Kelton has had opinion pieces published in The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times . How We Think About the Deficit Is Mostly Wrong appeared in The New York Times . Kelton wrote the article Congress can give every American a pony ( if it breeds enough ponies ) , which appeared in The Los Angeles Times . The Deficit Myth . Keltons The Deficit Myth appeared on The New York Times bestseller list for nonfiction in June 2020 . In the Wall Street Journal , Stanford economist John H . Cochrane gave the book a negative review , saying that her implications don’t lead to her desired conclusions [ ... ] her logic , facts and language turn into pretzels . Cochrane asserted that Keltons analysis of inflation was biased , and that the book cited no articles in major peer-reviewed journals , monographs with explicit models and evidence , or any of the other trappings of economic discourse . New York University economist Alberto Bisin also panned the book , writing , it’s not that the public-spending agenda proposed in the book wouldn’t be worthwhile , or that monetization is never a useful tool of monetary policy.. . These are all issues currently studied and debated in ( mainstream ) academic and policy circles . But MMT , as exposed in the book , appears to be a very poor attempt at supporting this political agenda , with no coherent theoretical support . Former ECB Chief Economist Otmar Issing gave the book a negative review in an article criticizing MMT . Marxian economist Hans G . Despain gave the book a positive review . Selected works . - Bell ( Kelton ) , Stephanie , Can Taxes and Bonds Finance Government Spending? , Levy Economics Institute , July 1998 - Bell ( Kelton ) , Stephanie , The role of the state and the hierarchy of money , Cambridge Journal of Economics , Vol . 25 , 2001 , pp . 149–163 - Kelton , Stephanie , Edward J . Nell , editors . The State , the Market , and the Euro : Metallism versus Chartalism in the Theory of Money ; Edward Elgar ; Reprint edition : May 2003 ; - Kelton , Stephanie , The Deficit Myth , June 2020 ;