Brief Biography
Dutch economist Arjo Klamer is Dean of the
Academia Vitae University College in Deventer and Professor of the Economics of Art and Culture at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Klamer spent the early years of his academic career in the U.S. After completing his PhD at Duke University he taught at Wellesley College, George Washington University, and the University of Iowa. He returned to the Netherlands in the mid-1990s to assume the world's only Chair in Economics and Culture at Erasmus University.
His books on the rhetoric and culture of economics include
Conversations with Economists (1984) and
Speaking of Economics (Routledge, 2007).
Klamer is a Catholic layman active in policy debate and community organisations in the Netherlands.
Published work and lectures are available at
www.klamer.nl.
