Mathew Forstater is Associate Professor of Economics and Black Studies, and Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Department of Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Previously a visiting scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College he has taught at Bard and Gettysburg College and remains a research associate with the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. He has been published widely on political economy and the history of academic thought in a range of academic journals.