15 Facts About Stephanie Kelton

Stephanie A Kelton is an American heterodox economist and academic, and a leading proponent of modern monetary theory.

Stephanie Kelton served as an advisor to Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign and worked for the Senate Budget Committee under his chairmanship.

Stephanie Kelton is the author of The Deficit Myth, a New York Times bestseller, on the subject of modern monetary theory.

Stephanie Kelton is founder and editor-in-chief of the blog New Economic Perspectives.

Stephanie Kelton was named one of Politico's 50 "thinkers, doers, and visionaries transforming American politics in 2016".

Stephanie Kelton is married to Paul Kelton, and they have two children.

Stephanie Kelton received a Rotary scholarship to study economics at the University of Cambridge, receiving her Master's degree in 1997.

Stephanie Kelton was a research scholar at the UMKC Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and the Levy Economics Institute in upstate New York.

On December 26,2014, Stephanie 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 Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign.

In 2019, Stephanie Kelton was invited to be the Geoff Harcourt Visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide.

Stephanie Kelton 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.

Stephanie Kelton publishes formally as well as in the popular press and appears on mass media.

Stephanie Kelton has been a frequent guest on television and radio, including MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes and NPR's On Point.

Stephanie Kelton has had opinion pieces published in The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

Stephanie Kelton wrote the article "Congress can give every American a pony ", which appeared in The Los Angeles Times.