I've just heard the news that Robert Blecker passed away. I've known him since the 1990s, when I was a graduate student at the New School. His books on the US economy for EPI were particularly important for the work I did with Wynne Godley on the external accounts of the Levy macro model.
He will be remembered for his several contributions to Post Keynesian open macroeconomics. His contributions include extending Kaleckian theories to open economies, in particular the distributive implications of wage-led and profit-led regimes, advancing debates over balance-of-payments-constrained growth and Thirlwall's Law, and extensive work on exchange rates, Mexico, NAFTA and international trade policy.
ROKE devoted its the 2nd issue, this year to his work. You can read about his work in this article by Ricardo Summa, Gustavo Bhering and Nathalie Marins in the introduction to the symposium.
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