Biography

John T. Dalton is an associate professor of economics at Wake Forest University in Winston-​Salem, North Carolina. His areas of expertise include international trade, growth and development, macroeconomics, economic history, and the life and economics of Joseph Schumpeter. He has been published in leading peer-​reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Southern Economic Journal, the Journal of Economic Education, and others. Dalton has been a visiting scholar at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He has presented his work at seminars and conferences and in public talks around the world.

He first encountered Schumpeter as a teenage reader of Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy and has been wrestling with the ideas ever since. You can find more about Professor Dalton’s research and teaching here.

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