Stephen Resnick

Stephen Resnick, UMass Amherst economics professor emeritus served as the Helen Sheridan Memorial Scholar from fall 2011 until his death in January 2013.

Professor Resnick was focusing on two research projects. The first aimed to theorize the connection between Marx's value of labor power for workers and their benefits received, focusing on three kinds of benefits: social security, private pensions, and medical insurance. While relatively unimportant in Marx's day, these have become far more important to workers today. The second project aimed to extend value and surplus value analytics to international trade and capital flows, a project intended, but never completed, by Marx.