Keith Jakee – Keith Jakee

Dr. Keith Jakee

Professor of Economics, Florida Atlantic University

Biography

Proudly born and raised in the City of Detroit, I am a professor of economics at the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University where I’ve been since 2005. I have been a visiting Research Fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University (2021-22), a Fulbright Scholar at Uppsala University in Sweden, a Research Associate at the Centre for Policy Studies at University College Cork (Ireland), a Visiting Scholar at the Max-Planck-Institute for Research into Economic Systems (Jena Germany), and a postdoctoral research scholar at City University of Stockholm (Sweden). I’ve also held full-time, tenured appointments at Monash University and in the Business School of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), both in Melbourne, Australia; I also spent two years in the economics department at University College Cork (Ireland). I studied at Université de Lyon II, taught at the Université Catholique de Lyon (both in Lyon, France), and I taught at the Singapore Institute of Management as part of a joint degree program with RMIT. More recently, I served as a visiting professor of economics at John Cabot University in the heart of the Eternal City.

My research generally falls in one of three sub-fields in economics—political economy, entrepreneurship, and industrial organization—although I have been working considerably less in industrial organization lately and moving increasingly into the emerging subdiscipline of “politics, philosophy, and economics” (PPE). You click here to go to my research page.

I received my PhD and MA at George Mason University, where my dissertation research was supervised by Tyler Cowen, Richard Wagner, Tom R. Burns and the Nobel Laureate, James Buchanan. I also completed an MAE degree at the University of Michigan and my BS at Northern Michigan University, in Marquette, MI.

In addition to my research and teaching, I’ve had considerable experience in administration and program development. I served as the founding Director of FAU’s Honors Summer Institute, a science-oriented program established in collaboration with the renowned Scripps Research Institute. Previous to that, I was the inaugural Director of RMIT’s new Honors Degree program in Economics and Finance, a highly intensive one-year stand-alone degree program. I have also done business and policy consulting and worked in property development and management.