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   Fikret Adaman                        The relationship between capitalistic globalization and democracy is contradictory, Samir Amin asserts                           

 Professor of Economics Bogazici University Istanbul 
Country of Origin: Turkey
Focus Areas: alternative economics, ecological economics, economic calculation debate
Major Works: Economy and Society: Money, Capitalism and Transition w/ Pat Devine (2001)
Associations:  Pat Devine
Adaman's Recent Reseach

 Socialist Renewal: Lessons from the “Calculation” Debate w/ Pat Devine

Economy and Society ( a book about the nature of money)

       The Economics-Environment Relationship (w/ Begum Ozkaynak)



 The relationship between capitalistic globalization and democracy is contradictory, Samir Amin asserts                               Michael Albert                                     

 Founder and Co-Editor of Z Magazine, ZNET and ZMedia
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas: Visionary economics, market critique, visionary social theory
Major Works: Political Economy of Participatory Economics w. Robin Hahnel (1991), Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003)
Associations: ZNET, ZMagazine, ZMedia, Robin Hahnel

Neoclassical Micro and Macro Economics: Science or Silliness

Interview: Exploring Parecon


  

                              Samir Amin                                      

Professor of Economics University of Cairo
Country of Origin: Egypt
Focus Areas: Globalization, Imperialism, International Trade
Major Works: Spectres of Capitalism (1998), Re-Reading the Postwar Period (1994), Empire of Chaos (1992), and Eurocentrism (1989)
Associations: Immanuel Wallerstein, Monthly Review, World Social Forum
 

      Profile and bibliography

       U.S. Imperialism, Europe and the Middle East 

       The First Babu Memorial Lecture (on the theme of colonialism)

       Imperialism and Globalisation

       Interview with People's Democracy


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                      Dean Baker                                 

Co-director, Center for Economic Policy Research
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas: U.S. economy, globalization
Major Works: Social Security: The Phony Crisis. (with Mark Weisbrot)(1999), Getting Prices Right: The Battle Over the Consumer Price Index (1997)
Affiliations: Center for Economic Policy Research, Marc Weisbrot
Dean Baker's page at CEPR

The Conservative Nanny-State

The Social Security Shortfall and the National Defence Shortfall

Baker's weekly Economic Reporting Review

Frame the Issue (Alternet)




 The relationship between capitalistic globalization and democracy is contradictory, Samir Amin asserts                             Walden Bello                                

Professor of Sociology, University of Manilla
Country of Origin: Phillipines
Focus Areas: Globalization, International Trade
Major Works: Dilemnas of Domination (2004),  Deglobalization: Ideas for a  New World Economy (2002),  Dark Victory: The United States and World Poverty w/ Shea Cunnigham and Bill Rau (1999)
Associations: Focus on the Global South, World Social Forum, CEPR

Collection of Texts by Walden Bello

The World Bank and the IMF

Coming? A Rerun of the 1930's?

Bello Reviews Robert Brenner

 

     Robert Brenner                                 

 Professor of History, University of California Berkely
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas: World economy, US economy, economic history
Major Works: The Economics of Global Turbulence (2005),The Boom and the Bubble. The US in the World Economy (2002)
Associations:  Against the Current, New Left Review, Ellin Meiksins Wood
UCLA homepage with bibliography

    Towards the Precipice,  On the crisis in the U.S. Economy

        review of the Boom and the Bubble in Left Turn Magazine


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              Allin Cottrell                  The relationship between capitalistic globalization and democracy is contradictory, Samir Amin asserts                                

 Professor of Economics Wake Forest University
Country of Origin: Scotland
Focus Areas: Visionary economics, economic calculation, labour theory of value
Major Works: Towards a New Socialism w/ Paul Cockshott (1993)
Associations: Paul Cockshott, OPE mailing list
Allin Cottrell's homepage

Towards a New Socialism (book w/ Paul Cockshott)

Monetary Endogeneity and the Quantity Theory: The Case of Commodity Money

The Scientific Status of the Labour Theory of Value

 


    Paul Cockshott                          The relationship between capitalistic globalization and democracy is contradictory, Samir Amin asserts                                     

 Professor of Computer Science, University of Glasgow
Country of Origin: Scotland
Focus Areas: Visionary economics, economic calculation, labour theory of value
Major Works: Towards a New Socialism w/ Allin Cottrell (1993),  Information and Economics:  A critique of Hayek w/Cotrell  (1994)
Associations: Allin Cottrell, OPE mailing list
Paul Cockshott's webpage

The Scientific Status of the Labour Theory of Value

Index to Reality, Poltical Economy Page hosted by Cockshott

Information and Economics: A  Critique of Hayek (w/Cottrell)

Reflections on Economic Democracy (w/ Cottrell)


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 The relationship between capitalistic globalization and democracy is contradictory, Samir Amin asserts                              Herman Daly                                

Professor of Economics University of Maryland
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas:  Ecological economics, development economics, community economics
Major Works:  Steady State Economics (1991), For the Common Good (w/ John Cobb Jr.) (1989)
Associations: Focus on the Global South, World Social Forum


 Towards a New Economics: Questioning Growth

The Irrationality of Homo Economicus: Interview with Herman Daly

Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics (book excerpt)

Daly's World Bank Farewell Speech

          Jim Devine                                      

 Professor of Economics Loyola Marymount University
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas: Labour theory of value, exploitation, economic history
Major Works: Roemer's Theory of Capitalist Exploitation: The Contradictions of Walrasian Marxism,” w/ Gary Dymski , Review of Radical Political Economics, 21; Over-Investment, Underconsumption, and the Origins of the Great Depression,” Review of Radical Political Economics, 15(2), Summer 1983
Associations: Pen-l mailing list
 Jim Devine's website at Loyola


      Taxation without Representation: A Reconstruction of Marx's Theory of Exploitation

       Devine book review of "After Capitalism" by David Schweickart



       Pat Devine                                 

 Senior Lecturer in Economics, Manchester University 
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Focus Areas:  Visionary economics, ecological economics, economic calculation
Major Works:  Democracy and Economic Planning (1988), Economy and Society: Money, Capitalism and Transition w/ Pat Devine (2001)
Associations:  Fikret Adaman, Alex Callinocos
Pat's homepage with some papers


Socialist Renewal: Lessons from the “Calculation” Debate

Industrial Strategy: Process or Content, Insights from the Austrians

Introduction to Economy and Society (w/ Fikret Adaman)



            Doug Dowd                                                           

 Professor of Economics at John Hopkins University
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas: International economics, Institutional economics, critical analysis of capitalism
Major Works:  Capitalism and its Economics: A Critical History (2000),  U.S. Capitalist Development in the United States Since 1776:  Of, By, and For Which People (1993)
Associations:  ZMagazine, Monthly Review
A brilliant website dedicated to Douglas Dowd

Against the Conventional Wisdom (on-line book)

Tighten Your Seatbelts, The Worst is on its Way

      The Free Market;  and All That Jazz


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          Nancy Folbre                                                    

 Professor of Economics at  University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas: feminist economics, U.S. economy
Major Works:  The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values. (2001),  The New Field Guide to the U.S. Economy (1995)
Associations:  Network on the Family and the Economy
Nancy's homepage

Non-market Work and the Production of Human Capabilities
Demanding Quality:Worker/Consumer Coalitions and “High Road” Strategies in the Care Sector
Marriage, Poverty and Public Policy


            John Bellamy Foster                                                           

 Professor of Sociology , University of Oregon
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas: Ecological economics, Monopoly capitalism, imperialism
Major Works:  Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature (2000), The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy (1986).
Associations:   Monthly Review (co-editor), Ellin Meiksins Wood, Harry Magdoff
John Foster's university homepage

 Interview with John Bellamy Foster
Marx's Ecology in Historical Perspective


The End of Rational Capitalism
Global Ecology and the Common Good


            Takis Fotopoulos                                                           

 Professor of Economics , University of  North London, editor of Democracy and Nature
Country of Origin: Greece
Focus Areas:  Visionary economics, visionary politics, ecological economics
Major Works:  Toward an Inclusive Democracy: The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Emergence of a New Liberatory Project (1997).
Associations:   Democracy and Nature, Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Cornelius Castoriadis
archive of Takis Fotopoulos

What is Inclusive Democracy?

The Economic Foundations of an Ecological Society


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            Robin Hahnel                                                           

 Professor of Economics, American University
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas:  Visionary economics, critical analysis of capitalism, globalization, critique of markets
Major Works:  A Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics w/ Michael Abert (1991), Panic Rules! (2001), The ABC's of Political Economy (2003), Economic Justice and Democracy (2005)
Associations:   Michael Albert, ZMagazine, Douglas Dowd,  Green Party USA
Hahnel's American University homepage (includes bibliography

Winnowing Wheat from Chaff: Social Democracy and Libertarian Socialism in the Twentieth Century

Globalization: Beyond Reaction, Thinking Ahead


            Doug Henwood                                                           

 editor and main writer of Left Business Observer
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas:  Stock market and financial institutions, critical analysis of capitalism, US economy
Major Works:  Wall Street: How it Works and for Whom (1997), After the New Economy (2003)
Associations:   Pen-l mailing list, LBO mailing list, The Nation
Left Business Observer (newsletter edited by Henwood)

The New Economy and After

Monthly Review interview with Henwood about the "New Economy"

2001 Interview in the Socialist Register



                                   Geoffrey Hodgson                                     

 Professor of Economics at the University of Hertfordshire
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Focus Areas:  Critical institutionalism, evolutionary economics

Major Works:  How Economics Forgot History (2001)
Associations:  Journal of Institutional Economics, Post-Autistic Economic Review
Geoffrey's personal website

synopsis of Hodgson's major work:  "How Economics Forgot History"

How Did Economics Get into Such a State?


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       Michael Keaney                                 

 Professor of Economics, Mercuria Business School, Vantaa, Finland
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Focus Areas:Critical analysis of capitalism,  critical institutionalism  

Major Works:  Economist with a Public Purpose: Essays in Honour of John Kenneth Galbraith (2001, editor, contributor)
Associations:  Post-Autistic Economic Review, A-List

The Radical Political Economics of Douglas F. Dowd

Keaney reviews a book by liberal philosopher Isaiah Berlin



                           David C. Korten                                              

Co-founder of People-Centered Development Forum
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas: Globalization, alternative economics, economic history
Major Works: When Corporations Rule the World(1995), The Great Turning (2006)
Affiliations: People-Centered Development Forum, International Forum on Globalization
home page for David C. Korten

The Betrayal of Adam Smith (excerpt from When Corporations Rule the World)

Economies for Life (fall 2002 issue of Yes! magazine)


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         Michael A. Lebowitz                                                             

 Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University
Country of Origin: Canada
Focus Areas: Critical analysis of capitalism, Marxist theory, crisis theory 
Major Works:  Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class (1992)
Associations:   Pen-l mailing list,  Monthly Review

 

Ideology and Economic Development

 What Keeps Capitalism Going?

Karl Marx: The Needs of Capital vs. The Needs of Human Beings


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       Michael Perelman                                                                       

 Professor of Economics, University of Caifornia Berkely
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas: Critical analysis of capitalism, economic history, agricultural economics
Major Works:  The Perverse Economy : The Impact of Markets on People and the Environment (2003)
Associations:   Pen-l mailing list (moderator),  Monthly Review
Perelman's University of California Berkely homepage

 

The Political Economy of Intellectual Property

Interview: Michael Perelman Deconstructs Market Solutions

Economic Orthodoxy and the Information Commons (interview)


 

            Robert Pollin                                                                       

 Professor of Economics, Umass, Amherst
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas: US economy, critical analysis of capitalism
Major Works:  Contours of Descent:  U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of the Global Austerity, (2002)
Associations:   Political Economy Research Institue, Counterpunch, CEPR

 The Natural Rate of Unemployment

Be Utopian, Demand the Realistic

Evaluating Living Wage Laws in the
United States: Good Intentions and
Economic Reality in Conflict?


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          Hilary Wainwright                                           

 Senior Research Fellow, Center for Labour Studies, University of Manchester
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Focus Areas: globalization, participatory democracy
Major Works:  Arguments for a New Left(1993), Reclaim the State, Adventures in Popular Democracy (2003)
Associations:   Red Pepper
Hilary Wainwright page at the Transnational Institute

People Power (participatory democracy in London and Brazil)

WSF on Trial



       Immanuel Wallerstein                                                                   

 Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas: World economy, geopolitical analysis, ecological implications
Major Works:  The Modern World-System Vol 1-3 (1974, 1980, 1989)
Associations:   Review of World Systems Reseach

Ecology and the Costs of Capitalist Production: No Exit

After Developmentalism and Globalization,
What?

The Ecology and the Economy: What is Rational?

Globalization or the Age of Transition?




            Marc Weisbrot                                                                   

 Research Director, Center for Econimc and Policy Reseach
Country of Origin: United States
Focus Areas:Globalization, US economy
Major Works: Social Security: The Phony Crisis (2000)
Associations:   Center for Economic and Policy Research
Bio and Bibliography at The Center for Economic and Policy Research

 
Why Globalisation Fails to Deliver

World Bank Can't Seem to "Think Different"


 

       Ellin Meiksins Wood                                 

 Professor of Political Science,  York University
Country of Residence: Canada

Focus Areas: Economic history, Marxist economics

Major Works:  Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy (1988), Empire of Capital (2003)
Associations: Monthly Review, Socialist Register, Against the Current

Back to Marx

The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism

Labor, The State and Class Struggle

Worker's Liberty review of Wood's works


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