Stephanie A Kelton (née Bell) is an American heterodox economist and academic, and a leading proponent of Modern Monetary Theory. She served as an advisor to Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign and worked for the Senate Budget Committee under his chairmanship. She is also the author of The Deficit Myth, a New York Times bestseller, on the subject of Modern Monetary Theory.
On May 25, 2017, Stony Brook University announced that Kelton would join the university "This fall as a professor in the forthcoming Center for the Study of Inequality and Social Justice." She joined Stony Brook at the same time as her husband, Paul, who was appointed the first Robert David Lion Gardiner Chair in American history, at the College of Arts and Sciences.
In 2019, Kelton was invited to be the Geoff Harcourt Visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide.
