Joseph Kalt
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
Department of Urban Planning and Design
Joseph P. Kalt is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy. His research focuses on exploring the economic implications and political origins of the government regulation of markets. He also heads the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and is Faculty Chair of the Harvard University Native American Program, an interfaculty initiative. Kalt has published widely in the area of natural resources economics and policy. He is the author of The Economics and Politics of Oil Price Regulation; Federal Policy in the Post-Embargo Era, Drawing the Line on Natural Gas Regulation (with F.C. Schuller); and What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development (with Steven Cornell). Kalt received his BA from Stanford University and his MA and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.