Joseph Kalt

Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
Co-Director
Harvard Proj. on American Indian Econ. Development
(On Leave)
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Office Address
Taubman-464
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 104
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-4966
Fax: 617-496-3900
Email: joe_kalt@Harvard.Edu
Joseph Kalt

Profile

Joseph P. Kalt is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy. His research focuses on exploring the economic implications and political origins of the government regulation of markets. He also heads the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Kalt has published widely in the area of natural resources economics and policy. He is the author of The Economics and Politics of Oil Price Regulation; Federal Policy in the Post-Embargo Era, Drawing the Line on Natural Gas Regulation (with F.C. Schuller); What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development (with Steven Cornell); and The State of the Native Nations (with the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development). Kalt received his BA from Stanford University and his MA and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

Courses

Fall

  • API-105-A Markets and Market Failure with Cases

January

  • PED-501M Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation Building I

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