MARC LAVOIE is Professor in the Department of Economics at the Univeristy of Ottawa, Canada. He has been Visiting Professor at Curtin University, Australia, and at the univeristies of Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lille, Limoges, Nice, Rennes, Paris-1 and Paris-13. His main research areas are in post-Keynesian and monetary economics. He has written over 130 journal articles or book chapters as well as authoring Foundations of Post-Keynesian Economics. He is also co-editor of Central Banking in the Modern World.