Tracy Mott

Tracy Land Mott (November 4, 1946 — November 4, 2021) was an American economist in the field of post-Keynesian economics and a scholar of the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, Michael Kalecki, and Josef Steindl. He was particularly interested in the determinants of investment (macroeconomics).

Mott studied at Princeton University and then attended Union Theological Seminary to earn his Master’s Degree in Divinity. He earned his PhD in Economics from Stanford University where he studied with Duncan Foley, among others, and wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Don Harris. His first academic appointment was at the University of Colorado Boulder, but Mott spent the majority of his career at the University of Denver.

Early articles by Mott include "Towards a Post-Keynesian Formulation of Liquidity Preference" and "The Investment Theories of Kalecki and Keynes" (his most cited work co-authored with Steven Fazzari). Both were published in the Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics (JPKE). He also co-authored "A Cointegration Analysis of the US Money Supply Process" with Hamid Baghestani in the Journal of Macroeconomics.

He published his first book in 2004, which is an edited volume on the contributions of Josef Steindl co-authored with Nina Shapiro. His second book was published in 2009 and summarized much of his thinking about Kalecki and investment. His last publications were chapters in edited volumes with a former student from his CU Boulder days and with a long-time colleague at the University of Denver.

Mott died on his 75th birthday in Denver, CO.