Amitava Krishna Dutt | Kellogg Institute For International Studies

About

Amitava Krishna Dutt is professor emeritus of economics and political science at the University of Notre Dame. Dutt's areas of specialization are macroeconomic theory, development economics, international economics, political economy and international political economy. His current research focuses on global uneven development and globalization, models of growth and distribution, consumption and happiness, and the political economy of war and peace. He previously served as chairperson of the Economics Department at Notre Dame.

Thematic Interests

Growth and income distribution; development; international economics; political economy; international political economy; macroeconomics

Current Research

Uneven development and North-South interaction; post-Keynesian models of growth and income distribution; macroeconomics of development; consumption and happiness; political economy of war and peace; trade, growth and the environment.

Research Sub-Discipline

Regions

Research Tags

Journal Articles

“Uncertainty, Power, Institutions and Crisis: Implications for the Future of Capitalism” in Review of Keynesian Economics 3, 1 (2015)

“Distributional Dynamics in Post-Keynesian Growth Models,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 34, 3 (2012)

“Dimensions of Pluralism in Economics” in Review of Political Economy, 26, 4 (2014)

“Government Spending, Aggregate Demand and Economic Growth,” Review of Keynesian Economics 1, 1 (2013)

“The Global Financial Crisis: Views from Asia” (review essay), Development and Change 44, 1 (2013)

“The Kaleckian Growth Model: An Introduction,” Metroeconomica 63, 1 (2012)

“Institutional Change and Economic Development: Concepts, Theory And Political Economy,” Journal Of Institutional Economics 7, 4 (2011)

“The Role of Aggregate Demand in Classical-Marxian Models of Economic Growth,” Cambridge Journal of Economics 35, 2 (2011)

“Education, Growth and Distribution: Classical-Marxian Economic Thought and a Simple Model” (with Roberto Veneziani), Papers in Political Economy 61 (2011–12).

“Macroeconomic Theory After The Crisis,” Review Of Radical Political Economics 43, 3 (September 2011)

Coauthor, “International Institutions, Globalization and the Inequality Among Nations,” Progress in Development Studies 9, 4 (October, 2009)

Coauthors, “Aggregate demand shocks and economic growth,” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 18, 1 (March 2007)

Coauthor, “Growth, Distribution and the Environment: Sustainable Development for India,” with J.Mohan Rao World Development (February 1996)

Books

Pathways to Economic Development (Oxford University Press, 2014)

Economics and Ethics: An Introduction, with Charles K. Wilbur (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013).

Dutt, Amitava Krishna, Coauthor, Economics and Ethics (Macmillan-Palgrave, 2010)

New Directions in Development Ethics by Amitava Krishna Dutt

Dutt, Amitava Krishna, Coeditor, New Directions in Development Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010)

Coeditor. New Directions in Development Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010)

Happiness, Economics and Politics (Edward Elgar, 2009)

Coeditors. International Handbook of Development Economics. (Edward Elgar, 2008)

Coeditors, Development Economics and Structuralist Macroeconomics: Essays in Honor of Lance Taylor (Edward Elgar, 2003)

Coeditors. The State, Markets and Development: Beyond the Neoclasical Dichotomy. (Edward Elgar, 1994)

Growth, Distribution and Uneven Development (Cambridge University Press, 1990)

Book Chapters

“Could more flexibility of labor markets help to resume growth? Lessons of an Amended Kaleckian Model” (coauthored), in L. Mamica and P. Tridico, eds., Economic Policy and Financial Crisis (Routledge, 2014)

“Endogenous Technological Change in Classical-Marxian Models of Growth and Distribution,” in T. Michl, A. Rezai and L. Taylor, eds., Social Fairness and Economics: Economic Essays in the Spirit of Duncan Foley (Routledge, 2013).

“Post-Keynesianism and the Role of Aggregate Demand in Development Economics,” in Geoff C. Harcourt and Peter Kreisler, eds., Oxford Handbook of Post-Keynesian Economics (Oxford University Press, 2013).

“Growth, Distribution and Crises” in Hansjörg Herr, Torsten Niechoj, Claus Thomasberger, Achim Truger, and Till van Treeck, eds., From crisis to growth? The Challenge of Imbalances and Debt (Metropolis Verlag, 2012)

“Alternative Models of Growth and Distribution with a Simple Formulation of Endogenous Technological Change” in Christian Gehrke and Neri Salvadori, eds., Keynes, Sraffa, And The Criticism Of Neoclassical Theory: Essays In Honor Of Heinz Kurz (Routledge, 2011)

“Growth and Income Distribution: A Post-Keynesian Perspective,” in E. Hein And E. Stockhammer, eds., A Modern Guide to Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Policies (Edward Elgar, 2011)

“Economic Growth and Income Distribution: Kalecki, the Kaleckians, and their Critics,” in P. Arestis, ed., Macroeconomics And Economic Policy (Macmillan Palgrave, 2011)

“Reconciling the Growth of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply,” in Mark Setterfield, ed., Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Growth (Edward Elgar, 2010)

“Keynesian Growth Theory in The 21st Century,” in Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer, eds., Twenty-First Century Keynesian Economics (Macmillan Palgrave, 2010)

Coauthor, “A Decade of Reforms: The Indian Economy in the 1990s,” in Lance Taylor, ed., External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe and Brazil (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Working Papers

"The NICs, Global Accumulation and Uneven Development: Implications of a Simple Three-Region Model"
Working Paper Number: 180
Published: August 1992

Other Accomplishments & Recognitions

Kellogg Institute's Undergraduate Mentoring Award - 2018-19

2014 Well-Being, Economic Performance and Inequality—2014-15 Working Groups

Kellogg Faculty Fellows Promoted, Awarded Honors

May 27, 2023

Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliates Embark on NSF Fellowships

Feb 16, 2017