2026 L. Randall Wray: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	40	2253	2034	1289	1133	464	9948

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Economics and Finance

2253

2034

1289

1133

464

9948

Overview

L. Randall Wray is affiliated with the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College in the United States. The scientist's research primarily focuses on the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a total of 45 publications in this main field. This work covers a range of subfields including General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Accounting, and Sociology and Political Science.

The principal research themes include Economic Theory and Policy, Economic theories and models, Economic Theory and Institutions, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Political Economy and Marxism, and Fiscal Policies and Political Economy.

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by L. Randall Wray include:

Can we afford the Green New Deal?, 2020, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
What's Causing Accelerating Inflation: Pandemic or Policy Response?, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
Does the national debt matter?, 2020, The Japanese Political Economy
Sovereign Currency and Non-Sovereign Budgets: The Modern Money Theory Approach, 2020, Public Budgeting & Finance
Revisiting MMT, Sovereign Currencies and the Eurozone: A Reply to Marc Lavoie, 2024, Review of Political Economy

Frequent publication venues for the scientist's work include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Economic Issues
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
The Japanese Political Economy
Review of Political Economy

Frequent collaborators in research projects include Yeva Nersisyan, Flavia Dantas, Edward Lane, Éric Tymoigne, and Peter Skøtt.

Best Publications

Understanding modern money

L. Randall Wray

1593
Citations
Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems

L. Randall Wray

919
Citations
Understanding modern money : the key to full employment and price stability

L. Randall Wray

581
Citations
The rise and fall of money manager capitalism: a Minskian approach

L. Randall Wray

418
Citations
Lessons from the Subprime Meltdown

L. Randall Wray

347
Citations
Money and credit in capitalist economies : the endogenous money approach

L. Randall Wray

278
Citations
Credit and state theories of money : the contributions of A. Mitchell Innes

L. Randall Wray;A. Mitchell Innes

259
Citations
Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist

L. Randall Wray

246
Citations
A Post-Keynesian View of Central Bank Independence, Policy Targets, and the Rules-versus-Discretion Debate

L. Randall Wray

239
Citations
Financial markets meltdown: What can we learn from Minsky?

L. Randall Wray

196
Citations
Commercial Banks, the Central Bank, and Endogenous Money

L. Randall Wray

195
Citations
From the State Theory of Money to Modern Money Theory: An Alternative to Economic Orthodoxy

L. Randall Wray

172
Citations
Minsky's Money Manager Capitalism and the Global Financial Crisis

L. Randall Wray

171
Citations
The economic contributions of Hyman Minsky: Varieties of capitalism and institutional reform

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou;L. Randall Wray;L. Randall Wray

168
Citations
The Global Financial Crisis and the Shift to Shadow Banking

Yeva Nersisyan;L. Randall Wray

155
Citations
Modern Money Theory

L. Randall Wray

151
Citations
In Defense of Employer of Last Resort: A Response to Malcolm Sawyer

William Mitchell;L. Randall Wray

146
Citations
Modern Money Theory

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143
Citations
The commodities market bubble: Money manager capitalism and the financialization of commodities

L. Randall Wray

142
Citations
A Post-Keynesian View of Central Bank Independence, Policy Targets, and the Rules-versus-Discretion Debate

L. Randall Wray

141
Citations
Alternative theories of the rate of interest

L. Randall Wray

128
Citations
Horizontalists and Verticalists: The Macroeconomics of Credit Money

Christopher J. Niggle;L. Randall Wray

77
Citations
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

L. Randall Wray

44
Citations
Money and inflation

L. Randall Wray;L. Randall Wray

10
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mariana Mazzucato University College London

Richard Startz University of California, Santa Barbara

Jan Kregel Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

External Links

Personal website of L. Randall Wray

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