CEWS Profile: Arjo Klamer

Professor Klamer has a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University. After holding appointments at Wellesley College, University of Iowa, and George Washington University, he returned to the Netherlands to take up his current position at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.  He holds the world’s only chair in the field of cultural economics and he is the founding director of a new university in the Netherlands called Academia Vitae.  His current work focuses on the cultural dimension of economic life and the values of art. He is the author or co-author of dozens of articles on economics, art, culture, and rhetoric.  He has published fifteen books including Conversations with Economists:  New Classical Economists and Opponents Speak Out on the Current Controversy in Macroeconomics which has been translated into Japanese, French, Polish, Portuguese and several other languages.  He has also edited The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric (with Donald McCloskey and Robert Solow) and The Value of Culture: On the Relationship between Economics and Arts. Professor’s Klamer’s latest book, Speaking of Economics:  How to be in the Conversation has just been published by Routledge.