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Jan Toporowski (born July 4, 1950) is a British economist and Professor of Economics and Finance at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Early life and education

Jan was in born in Oxford in 1950 to Polish émigré parents. He obtained a BSocSc in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Birmingham I n 1972, MSc in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 1977, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Birmingham in 1983.

Career

On completion of his undergraduate studies, Jan Toporowski went to work for the Church Commissioners for England (the pension fund of the Church of England). This experience was the foundation of his interest in financial economics. After doctoral studies, he returned to finance, as a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank, where he made himself notorious for his criticism of international banking and its part in the international debt crisis of the 1980s. He has been a researcher in 1980 at the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw, in 2003-2004 at the University of Cambridge, in 2004-2005 at the Centre for Research on the History and Methodology of Economics, and in 2005 at the Bank of Finland. During the 1990s, Jan Toporowski taught at London South Bank University and, since 2004 he has been at the School of Oriental Studies and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London, where he chaired the Department of Economics. He has widely published on financial and monetary economics and the economics of Michal Kalecki. In 2013 his book ‘Why the World Economy Needs a Financial Crash’ and Other Critical Essays on Finance and Financial Economics (London: Anthem Press 2010) won the Unicus Prize for the Best Book Promoting the Understanding of Economics at the Warsaw Book Fair in 2013. Jan Toporowski’s most recent books are Michał Kalecki An Intellectual Biography Volume 1 Rendezvous in Cambridge 1899-1939 (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2013) and Michał Kalecki An Intellectual Biography Volume 2 By Intellect Alone 1939-1970 (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2018).

Authored Books

Co-author Dictionary of Economics London: Charles Letts 1983. pp. 199.

The Economics of Financial Markets and the 1987 Crash Aldershot: Edward Elgar 1993. pp. 162 + ix.

The End of Finance: The Theory of Capital Market Inflation, Financial Derivatives and Pension Fund Capitalism London: Routledge 2000. pp. 160 + xvi.

Theories of Financial Disturbance Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2005.

‘Why the World Economy needs a Financial Crash’ and other critical essays on Finance and Financial Economics London: Anthem Press 2010

Michał Kalecki An Intellectual Biography Volume I Rendezvous in Cambridge 1899-1939 Basingstoke: Palgrave 2013.

Crédito y Crisis de Marx a Minsky Mexico City: Facultad de Economía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México & Miguel Ángel Porrúa 2016. Polish edition Kredyt i Kryzys od Marksa do Minsky’ego Warszawa: Książka i Prasa 2017.

Michał Kalecki An Intellectual Biography Volume II By Intellect Alone 1939 – 1970 Basingstoke: Palgrave 2018.

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