Dirk Bezemer (born 1971) is a Dutch economist who is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He studied at Wageningen University (M.Sc. in Economics (1995)) and University of Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute (Ph.D. in Economics (2001)). His topics of expertise include the financial sector, credit creation, credit cycles, monetary policy, and the cause of economic crises.Policy Failures and the Irish Economic CrisisGreen Barons, Force-of-Circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors; Rural Change in the Early Years of Post-Socialist Capitalist DemocracyThe Century of the Emerging World; Development with a Vengeance Bezemer provides commentary at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and De Groene Amsterdammer. In a September 2009 opinion piece in the Financial Times he wrote that a dozen economists whom he listed had predicted the 2008 financial crisis but were ignored.Finance at the Threshold; Rethinking the Real and Financial EconomiesInside the Crystal Ball; How to Make and Use ForecastsDebunking Economics; The Naked Emperor Dethroned?When the Bubble Bursts; Surviving the Canadian Real Estate Crash"Opinion Global Economy: Why some economists could see the crisis coming" by Dirk Bezemer (Financial Times, 7 September 2009)
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