education:
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1975
M.A., Economics, Yale University, 1966
A.B., Physics, Harvard College, 1965
professional experience
September 1978 to present: Faculty (Assistant, Associate, then full
Professor), Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
January to June, 1984: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics,
University of California, Berkeley, CA.
October 1977 to September 1978: Visiting Staff Economist, Bureau of Economics,
Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.
September 1974 to August 1978: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,
American University, Washington, D.C.
research interests
Russian economy
Social structure of accumulation theory
Institutional and policy regime change in capitalist systems
Economic crisis theory
Socialist economies
affiliations
Vice-President, World Association for Political Economy.
Member, Union for Radical Political Economics.
Member, Massachusetts Society of Professors.
Staff Economist, Center for Popular Economics, Amherst, MA.
presentations
Selected Recent Presentations:
"Marxist Crisis Theory and the Severity of the Current Economic Crisis," at a
session sponsored by the Union for Radical Political Economics at the Allied
Social Sciences Associations Convention in Atlanta, January 4, 2010.
"The Sixtieth Anniversary of the People's Republic of China: Accomplishments
and Problems," sponsored by the Chinese Students' Association, University of
Massachusetts Amherst, October 2, 2009.
"A Reinterpretation of Social Structure of Accumulation Theory," Academy of
Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, May 19, 2009.
"The Current Financial and Economic Crisis," five serial lectures, Shanghai
University of Finance and Economics, May 11-15, 2009.
"Reform vs. Radical Transformation in the Context of Today's Economic
Crisis," Left Forum, New York City, April 19, 2009.
"What Can We Learn from Marx's Capital Volume I?," Economics
Department, Hyderabad University, India, April 3, 2009.
"The Current Financial and Economic Crisis: A Systemic Crisis of Neoliberal
Capitalism," University Distinguished Lecture, Hyderabad University, India,
March 31, 2009; at Fudan University, Shanghai, May 13, 2009; at Shanghai
Finance University, May 14, 2009; at Shanghai University of Finance and
Economics, May 15, 2009; at conference on Neoliberalism and the Global
Financial Crisis at Shandong University, Jinan, China, May 18, 2009; at
Tsinghua University, Beijing, May 20, 2009; at Central Compilation and
Translation Bureau, Beijing, May 22, 2009; at Peking University, May 22,
2009; at Utopia Bookstore, Beijing, May 23, 2009; at the Fourth Forum of the
World Association for Political Economy, Paris, May 28, 2009; and at a
conference on the Financial Crisis sponsored by the Union for Radical
Political Economics at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, October 24, 2009.
"The Financial and Economic Crisis of 2008: A Systemic Crisis of Neoliberal
Capitalism," at a session sponsored by the Union for Radical Political
Economics at the Allied Social Sciences Associations Convention in San
Francisco, January 4, 2009; and at the Left Forum, New York City, April 19,
2009.
"The Political Economy of the Putin Era: Has Russia Moved toward State
Capitalism?," Ministry of Education, Beijing, May 29, 2008.
"The Emerging Financial Crisis in the U.S. Economy: Causes and Effects,"
Ministry of Education, Beijing, May 29, 2008; and at Tsinghua University,
Beijing, May 31, 2008.
"Marxist Political Economy for the Contemporary World," at Academy of
Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, May 26, 2008; and at
the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, Beijing, May 27, 2008.
"What Economic Structure for Socialism?" International Conference on "Karl
Marx and the Challenges of the XXI Century," Havana, May 6, 2008; and at
conference on "Marxism and sustainable Development," sponsored by the World
Association for Political Economy, Langfang City, China, May 24, 2008.
"Liberal and Regulated Forms of Capitalism: Explaining the Evolution of
Capitalist Institutional Structures," at the Political Economy Program at
the National Autonomous University of Mexico, May 22, 2007.
"The Origins and Effects of Neoliberalism," keynote speech at annual conference
of the Chinese Foreign Economics Research Society, Beijing, October 14, 2006.
"The Iraq War and the New US Imperialism," Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
Beijing, October 17, 2006.
Selected publications
Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure
of Accumulation Theory for the Twenty First Century, edited volume with
Terrence McDonough and Michael Reich, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2010.
Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and
the New Russia, coauthored with Fred Weir, London and New York: Routledge,
2007. A revised and updated version of Revolution from Above: The Demise of
the Soviet System, 1997.
Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System, coauthored with Fred
Weir, London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Japanese language edition: Shin-Hyoron,
Tokyo, 2000. Chinese language edition: Renmin University Press, Beijing,
2002; reissued edition 2008.
Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and
Crisis, edited volume with coeditors Terrence McDonough and Michael Reich,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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"The Final Crisis: What Can Cause a System-Threatening Crisis of
Capitalism," Science and Society, forthcoming 2010.
"Financialization and Neoliberalism," in Relations of Global Power:
Neoliberal Order and Disorder," by Gary Steeple and Stephen McBride (eds),
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2010. Published in
Hungarian in Fordulat, Winter 2008/Spring 2009, 65-81.
"Global Neoliberalism and the Contemporary Social Structure of
Accumulation," with Terrence McDonough, in Terrence McDonough, Michael
Reich, and David M. Kotz (eds), Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises:
Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the Twenty First Century,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010.
"A Re conceptualization of Social Structure of Accumulation Theory," with
Martin Wolfson, in Terrence McDonough, Michael Reich, and David M. Kotz (eds),
Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation
Theory for the Twenty First Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
forthcoming 2010.
"The Financial and Economic Crisis of 2008: A Systemic Crisis of Neoliberal
Capitalism," Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 41 no. 3, Summer
2009, 305-17. Also in Russian translation in Alternatives no. 4, 2009,
130-51.
"Economic Crises and Institutional Structures: A Comparison of Regulated and
Neoliberal Capitalism in the U.S.," in Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes,
Marx and Globalization, by Jonathan Goldstein and Michael Hillard (eds),
London and New York: Routledge, 2009, 176-88.
"What Economic Structure for Socialism?" in Chinese in
Chinese Social Sciences Press Journal 10:4, 2008, 105-11.
"Contradictions of Economic Growth in the Neoliberal Era: Accumulation and
Crisis in the Contemporary U.S. Economy," Review of Radical Political
Economics, vol. 40 no. 2, Spring 2008, 174-188; also an earlier version in
Chinese translation in Review of History of Economic Thought, June, 2006,
138-159, and in Foreign Theoretical Trends, v. 12, 2007, 6-11. Abbreviated
version published in Chinese Social Science Digest, v. 3, 2008, 25-26.
"The Erosion of Non-Capitalist Institutions and the Reproduction of
Capitalism," in Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st Century,
Present and Future, by Robert Albritton, Bob Jessop, and Richard Westra (eds),
London and New York: Anthem Press, 2007, 160-76.
"The Role of the State in Economic Transformation: Comparing the Transition
Experiences of Russia and China," in Chinese in Foreign Theoretical Trends
(Beijing), January 2005, 7-12, and February 2005, 32-36; and in Chinese in
Issues of Contemporary World Socialism, No. 3, September 2005, 3-14.
Published in Russian translation as "Gosudarstvo i ekonomicheckaya
transformatsiia: rossiiskii i kitaiskii opyt perekhoda k pynku," in Vestnik
Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta (Bulletin of St. Petersburg University),
vol. 5 no. 2, 2005, 1-16. |
