Servaas Storm

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Servaas Storm is a Dutch economist and author who works on macroeconomics, technological progress, income distribution & economic growth, finance, development and structural change, and climate change.

He is a Senior Lecturer at Delft University of Technology. He obtained a PhD in Economics (in 1992) from Erasmus University Rotterdam. His work has appeared in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Development and Change, Eastern Economic Review, Industrial Relations, International Review of Applied Economics, International Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal of Development Economics and Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

His latest book, co-authored by C.W.M. Naastepad, is Macroeconomics Beyond the NAIRU (Harvard University Press, 2012) and winner of the 2013 Myrdal Prize of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Servaas Storm is one of the editors of Development and Change and a member of the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Working Group on the Political Economy of Distribution.


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Myth and Reality in the Great Inflation Debate: Supply Shocks and Wealth Effects in a Multipolar World Economy

Paper Working Paper | | Jan 2023

A critical reappraisal of the case in favor of monetary tightening pressed by inflation hawks is overdue.

Collateral Damage From Higher Interest Rates

Article | Nov 5, 2022

Why to Be Wary of Another Volcker-Type Monetary Tightening

Inflation in the Time of Corona and War: The Plight of the Developing Economies

Paper Working Paper | | Nov 2022

Fears of ‘stagflation’ have come back to haunt macroeconomic policy makers all over the globe

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA): A Brief Assessment

Article | Sep 15, 2022

Servaas Storm’s commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act

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Storm’s INET funded research is discussed in Naked Capitalism

News Jan 25, 2021

“One of the main reasons Italy’s economy is in such dire straits is its strict adherence to the EMU’s macroeconomic rule book — in particular the rules on fiscal austerity and structural reforms — as Dutch economist Servaas Storm painstakingly details in his article ‘Italy: How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades’” — Nick Corbishley, Naked Capitalism

Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?

Article | Jun 24, 2019

By promoting unrealisitc models, economists have become part of problem rather than the solution

Vox Features INET Climate Research

News Dec 31, 2018

Vox features INET’s package of climate research

The Intercept Features INET Climate Research

News Dec 5, 2018

The Intercept highlights INET research from Enno Schröder and Servaas Storm and Gregor Semieniuk, Lance Taylor, and Armon Rezai

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