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Introduction
"He graduated from high school in 1987, majoring in natural sciences, and then continued his studies at the Budapest University of Economics (BUE, now Corvinus University of Budapest), and studied philosophy, general linguistics, and Celtology at Eötvös Loránd University. During his activities in the latter field, he published an article in Scots-Celtic (Gaelic) on the modernization of Hungarian language. He earned a degree in economics and economics teacher from the Budapest University of Economics (BUE) in 1992, as well as a doctorate in 1996 and a Ph.D. in 2003 in the field of post-Keynesian theory and income distribution. He completed his Ph.D. studies partly at Heriott-Watt University in Edinburgh with a scholarship. He began his teaching activity at the University of Horticulture and Food Industry and the University of Commerce and Hospitality, and then worked at the Corvinus University of Budapest between 1997 and 2025. Here he taught and researched at the Department of History of Economic Thought, his main field was monetarism and early Hungarian economic thought, and his results were published in the form of book excerpts and studies. During this work, he made extensive use of his knowledge of Latin, German, and Ancient Greek. From 2020, he also taught courses in English on the topic of Ottoman Turkish economic thought, and his knowledge of Turkish played an important role in his research in this area. He has been teaching various economics subjects in English at the US based McDaniel College since 1997. Since 2015, he has maintained a close professional relationship with the Department of Economics at Istanbul University. He was an opponent at doctoral defenses twice. Since 2026, he has been a lecturer at the Budapest University of Economics and Business. He is married to Dr. Sinem Kutlu-Horváth, an associate professor at Istanbul University."
Subject(s) taught
- International economics
- Economics 2
- Advanced business economics
Research areas
- History of economic thought, theories of distribution, the Post-Keynesian theory of growth and distribution
- Ottoman economic thought