Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson is an American economist and author who has appeared in the documentaries Four Horsemen (2012) and Surviving Progress (2011). He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Chicago and master's and doctoral degrees in economics at New York University, then worked as a balance of payments specialist at Chase Manhattan Bank from 1964 to 1968. He taught at the New School for Social Research from 1969 to 1972 and later advised government and non-governmental organizations as a consultant during the 1980s and 1990s. His books include Super Imperialism (1968), Global Fracture (1973), The Bubble and Beyond (2012) and Killing the Host (2015). He has held a professorship in economics at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and a research position with the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, and he contributes to the weekly podcast The Hudson Report.