Dr. Richard Kent is a Professor of Economics at Kent State University where he has been on the faculty since 1983.  He taught at Dartmouth College for seven years before coming to Kent State.  Dr. Kent served as Program Director in Geneva during the spring semester of 1988.  Professor Kent earned his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.  

Kent has done research on the mortgage and housing markets and also in the history of economic thought.  His research on the mortgage and housing markets has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Urban Economics among others.  Recently he has been doing research in the history of economic thought about John Maynard Keynes, one of the most prominent economists of the 20th century.  Professor Kent has been studying the development of Keynes’s book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, arguably the most important book in macroeconomics written in the 20th century.  This research has been published in History of Political Economy and History of Economics Review.

For more than ten years Dr. Kent served as Chair of the Economics Department and is currently the Associate Dean in the College of Business.  In addition he was very involved with Kent State’s Master of Financial Engineering program.

His main outside interests are golf, which he claims he plays poorly, and travel.  He and his wife Ruth have traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.  After getting his undergraduate degree and before going to graduate school Dr. Kent and his wife traveled six months in Europe.