塔尔萨大学经济学教授，也是“FREE: Forum for Real Economic Emancipation”的创始主席。（更多信息请访问 freefreeforum.org。）Clara此前曾任社会研究新学院经济学系副教授，普林斯顿高等研究院 Fellow。研究领域为资本主义分析及资本主义历史，重点探讨经济理念与技术官僚式政策制定之间的关键联系。她的第一本书Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism已被翻译成十几种语言。该书探究了第一次世界大战后紧缩政策的起源，揭示紧缩实为应对资本主义替代方案的一种工具。Clara最近出版了她的通俗著作Escape from Capitalism，该书即将被翻译成多种语言，包括法语、德语和意大利语。她目前正在撰写一个书稿，通过紧缩资本主义的视角，批判性地重新评估资本主义的黄金时代（1945-1975）及凯恩斯主义。她的文章发表于The Guardian, Jacobin, The Nation, Il Fatto Quotidiano等刊物，她定期为Il Fatto Quotidiano这家意大利全国性报纸撰稿。

Clara E. Mattei is Professor of Economics at The University of Tulsa and the Founding President of FREE: Forum for Real Economic Emancipation. Learn more @ freefreeforum.org, where she hosts the weekly FREE podcast. Clara was previously associate professor at The New School for Social Research Economics Department and has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton.  Her research contributes to the analysis and history of capitalism, exploring the critical relation between economic ideas and technocratic policy making. Her first book, Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism, has been translated into over a dozen languages. The book investigates the origins of austerity in the aftermath of the First World War, uncovering its logic as a tool of reaction deployed against alternatives to capitalism. Clara recently published her trade book Escape from Capitalism, which will soon be translated into multiple languages, including French, German, and Italian.  She is currently working on a book project which critically reassesses the Golden Age of Capitalism (1945-1975) and its Keynesianism through the lens of austerity capitalism.  Her writings have appeared, among other venues, in The Guardian, Jacobin, The Nation, and Il Fatto Quotidiano, the Italian national newspaper to which she regularly contributes.