Degrees: PHD, 1979, Thames Polytechnic; MA, 1974, Univ Wisc Madison; BA, 1972, Univ Vienna (Wein)

Bio:

Specialization: Money and Banking, International Trade and Finance, European Economic Integration, History of Economic Thought.

Robert Guttmann, Professor of Economics and currently also chair of the Department of Economics at Hofstra University, studied in Vienna (Austria) and the University of Wisconsin before obtaining his Ph.D. in London in 1979. He won "Distinguished Teacher of the Year" awards at Hofstra in 1989 and 2004. He teaches International Economics, Monetary Economics, Economic Integration in the European Union, and Public Finance. Widely published in monetary theory as well as money and banking, his latest book is "Cybercash: The Coming Era of Electronic Money" (Palgrave, 2003).He is currently working on a book about the financial crisis of 2008.