[1] He is also Affiliate Faculty of the American University School of International Service and Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute and Political Economy Research Institute.
[1][2][3] His research has made contributions to the fields of post-Keynesian and neo-Kaleckian macroeconomics, open economy macroeconomics, international trade theory and policy, global imbalances and the U.S. trade deficit, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the economy of Mexico, export-led growth, and the theory of balance-of-payments constrained growth (also known as Thirlwall's Law).
He also took courses in the Master's program in economics at El Colegio de México in 1978-79 under a Fulbright scholarship.
[4] Blecker is perhaps best known for his work on the theory of demand-led growth in open economies, starting with his article in the Cambridge Journal of Economics in 1989.
[8] This article showed the possibility of both wage-led and profit-led demand regimes based on a country's exposure to international competition, parallel to a similar analysis for closed economies published around the same time by Amit Bhaduri and Stephen Marglin.