Curriculum
Vitae
THOMAS
EMIL WEISSKOPF
HOME ADDRESS:
OFFICE ADDRESS: Department of Economics or Residential College,
BIRTHDATE/PLACE: April 13, 1940, in
FAMILY STATUS: Married, three children
CURRENT POSITIONS: Professor of Economics and in the
Residential College,
Resident
Director, Academic Program in Aix-en-Provence, France, operated by the
Universities of Wisconsin,
PRIOR POSITIONS: Director, Residential College,
(1996-2001,
2002-05)
Associate
Professor of Economics,
Assistant
Professor of Economics,
Visiting
Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute,
Junior
Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies,
Assistant
Research Economist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Summer 1963)
Research
and Teaching Associate, Indian Statistical Institute,
OTHER EMPLOYMENT: Course Director, AAAS/NSF Chatauqua-type
Short Course
(1979-80)
Consultant
and Workshop Leader, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
(1966-68)
EDUCATION:
TEACHING FIELDS: Political Economy, Comparative Economic Systems and Institutions, Macroeconomics, Economic Policy Issues, Economic Development and Political Change
LANGUAGES: French: reading, comprehension, speaking -- excellent.
Russian: reading, comprehension, speaking -- good.
German: reading, comprehension -- good; speaking -- fair.
Spanish:
reading, comprehension -- fair; speaking -- poor.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
1. Edited
with Arthur MacEwan, Perspectives on the Economic Problem: A Book of
Readings in Political Economy, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
1st Edition 1970; 2nd Edition 1973.
2. Edited
with Hollis Chenery et al., Studies in Development Planning,
3. With Bagicha Singh Minhas et al., Scheduling the
Operations of the Bhakra System: Studies in Technical and Economic Evaluation,
The Statistical Publishing Society,
4. With Richard Edwards and Michael Reich, The Capitalist System: A
Radical Analysis of Contemporary American Society, Prentice-Hall, Inc.,
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1st edition 1972; 2nd edition 1978; 3rd edition 1986.
5. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, Beyond the Waste Land: A Democratic
Alternative to Economic Decline, Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City,
N.Y., 1983; paperback edition 1984; British edition, published by Verso Press
(London), 1985; French edition, L'Economie du Gaspillage: La Crise
Americaine et les Politiques Reaganiennes, published by Editions La
Decouverte (Paris), 1986; Japanese edition, published by Toyo Kezai Shiposha
(Tokyo), 1986; Spanish edition, published by Alianza Editorial, S,A. (Madrid),
1989.
6. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, After the Waste Land: A Democratic
Economics for the Year 2000, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, N.Y., 1991; Spanish
edition, published by Alianza Editorial, S.A. (Madrid), 1992.
7. Edited with Samuel Bowles, Economics and Social Justice:
Essays on Power, Labor and Institutional Change (a posthumous collection of
the works of David M. Gordon), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (
8. With Neva R. Goodwin, Frank Ackerman and Oleg I. Ananyin, Microeconomics
in Context (in Russian), The
9. With Neva R. Goodwin, Frank Ackerman and Julie A. Nelson, Microeconomics
in Context, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 1st edition 2003; 2nd edition 2005.
10. Affirmative Action in the United States
and India: A Comparative Perspective, Routledge,
London, 2004; South Asian edition, published by
Foundation Books (the Indian Associate of
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES
1. "Numerical
Results of a Multisectoral Programming Model," Economic and Political
Weekly (
2. "A
Programming Model for Import Substitution in
3. With
Alan S. Manne, "A Dynamic Multisectoral Model for India, 1967-1975,"
in Anne B. Carter and A. Brody (eds.), Applications of Input-Output Analysis,
North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1970.
4. "Alternative
Patterns of Import Substitution in
5. "The
Growth of Radical Economics in the
6. "Capitalism,
Underdevelopment and the Future of the Poor Countries," in Jagdish
Bhagwati (ed.), Economics and World Order, MacMillan and Co., New York,
1972; reprinted in Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1,
Spring 1972; German translation in Dieter Senghaas (ed.), Imperialismus und
Strukturelle Gewalt: Analysen uber Abhangige Reproduktion, Suhrkamp Verlag,
Frankfurt (West Germany), 1974.
7. "On
the Necessity of Inequality under Capitalism," in Richard Edwards et al., The Capitalist System, Prentice-Hall, Inc.,
8. "The
Problem of Surplus Absorption in a Capitalist Society," in Richard Edwards
et al., The Capitalist System,
Prentice-Hall, Inc.,
9. "
10. "An
Econometric Test of Alternative Constraints on the Growth of Underdeveloped
Countries," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 54, No. 1,
February 1972.
11. "The
Impact of Foreign Capital Inflow on Domestic Savings in Underdeveloped
Countries," The Journal of International Economics, Vol. 2, No. 1,
February 1972; reprinted in Amitava K. Dutt (ed.), The Political Economy of
Development, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham (U.K.), 2001.
12. "An
Econometric Test of Alternative Constraints on the Growth of Underdeveloped
Countries: A Reply," Review of
Economics and Statistics, Vol. 55, No. 1, February 1973.
13. "Dependence
and Imperialism in India," in Mark Selden (ed.), Remaking Asia: Essays on the American Uses of Power,
Pantheon, New York, 1973; reprinted in the Review of Radical Political
Economics, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 1973.
14. "Theories
of American Imperialism: A Critical
Evaluation," Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1974.
15. "Capitalism,
Socialism and the Sources of Imperialism," in James Kurth and Steven Rosen
(eds.), Testing Theories of Economic Imperialism,
16. "
17. "
18. Comments
on Harold M. Hochman and James D. Rogers, "The Simple Politics of
Distributional Preference," in F. Thomas Juster (ed.), The Distribution
of Economic Well-Being, National Bureau of Economic Research, New York,
1976.
19. "The
Persistence of Poverty in
20. "The
Irrationality of Capitalist Economic Growth," In Richard Edwards et al., The
Capitalist System (2nd edition), Prentice-Hall, Inc.,
21. "Sources
of Cyclical Downturns and Inflation," in Richard Edwards et al., The
Capitalist System (2nd edition), Prentice-Hall, Inc.,
22. "Imperialism
and the Economic Development of the Third World, in Richard Edwards et al., The
Capitalist System (2nd edition), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs,
N.J., 1978; reprinted in Charles K. Wilber (ed.), The Political Economy of
Development and Underdevelopment (2nd edition), Random House, Inc., New
York, New York, 1979.
23. "Marxist
Perspectives on Cyclical Crises," in the Union for Radical Political
24. "Marxian
Crisis Theory and the Rate of Profit in the Postwar
25. "Patterns
of Economic Development in
26. "The
Relevance of the Chinese Experience for
27. With
Samuel Rosenberg, "A Conflict Theory Approach to Inflation in the Postwar
28. "The
Current Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective," Socialist Review,
Vol. 11, No. 3, May/June 1981; revised version reprinted under the title
"The Latest Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective" in Jane Jenson
(ed.), The Best of Socialist Review, Verso Press, New York, 1991.
29. "Wages,
Salaries and the Profit Share: A
Rejoinder,"
30. "Radical
Economics," in Douglas Greenwald (ed.), Encyclopedia of Economics,
McGraw-Hill Book Co.,
31. "Alternative
Models of Economic Development," Economies et
Societes (
32. With Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Long Swings
and the Non-Reproductive Cycle," American Economic Review, Vol. 73,
No. 2, May 1983; reprinted in Cycles (Bulletin of the Foundation for the
Study of Cycles), 1984.
33. Commentary
on Robert Boyer, "Wage Labor, Capital Accumulation and the Crisis:
1968-1982," Tocqueville Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring-Summer 1983.
34. "Economic
Development and the Development of Economics: Some Observations from the
Left," World Development, Vol. 11, No. 10, October 1983.
35. "Reaganomics:
Is It Finally Working?," Dissent, Vol. 30,
No.4, Fall 1983.
36. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Hearts and Minds: A Social Model of
37. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "A Social Model for
38. "The
Elections and the Economy," Dissent, Vol. 31, No. 4, Fall 1984.
39. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Long-term Growth and the Cyclical
Restoration of Profitability," in R. Goodwin, M. Kruger and A. Vercelli
(eds.), Nonlinear Models of Fluctuating Growth, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
(West Germany), 1984.
40. "Use
of Hourly Earnings Proposed to Revive Spendable Earnings Series," Monthly
Labor Review, Vol. 107, No. 11, November 1984.
41. "Self-Reliance
and Development Strategy," in Ngo Manh-Lan (ed.), Unreal Growth:
Critical Studies on Asian Development, Hindustan Publishing Corporation,
Delhi (India), 1984; reprinted in Kofi Buenor Hadjor (ed.), New Perspectives
in North-South Dialogue: Essays in Honor of Olof Palme, Third World
Communications, London, 1987.
42. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "The Arithmetic of Economic
Decline," in Marguerite R. Barnett and Philip V. White(eds.), The
Politics of Retrenchment and Block Grants in Education, Greenwood Press,
Westport, Connecticut, 1985.
43. "The
Rate of Surplus-Value in the Postwar
44. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Two Views of Capitalist Stagnation:
Underconsumption and Challenges to Capitalist Control," Science and
Society,
45. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Power and Profits: The Social
Structure of Accumulation and the Profitability of the Postwar
46. "The
Effect of Unemployment on Productivity: An International Comparative
Analysis," International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 1, No.
2, July 1987.
47. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Power, Accumulation and Crisis: The
Rise and Demise of the Postwar Social Structure of Accumulation," in
Robert Cherry et al. (eds.), The Imperiled Economy, The Union for
Radical Political Economics, New York, 1987; reprinted in Samuel Bowles and
Richard Edwards (eds.), Radical Political Economy, Edward Elgar
Publishing Ltd., London, 1990, and in Victor Lippit (ed.), Radical Political
Economy: Explorations in Alternative Economic Analysis, M.E. Sharpe, Inc.,
Armonk, N.Y., 1996.
48. "After
the Party: How Can We Overcome the Legacy of Reaganomics?,"
Dissent, Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring 1988.
49. "The
Analytics of Neo-Marxian Crisis Theory: An Illustrative Model," Keizai
Kenkyu (The Economic Review, published in
50. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Social Institutions, Interests, and
the Empirical Analysis of Accumulation: A Reply to Bruce Norton," Rethinking
Marxism, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 1988.
51. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Business Ascendancy and Economic
Impasse: A Structural Retrospective on Conservative Economics, 1979-87," Journal
of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter
1989.
52. "Taking
on the Budget Deficit," Dollars and Sense, No. 147, June 1989.
53. "An
Analysis of Profitability Changes in Eight Capitalist Economies," Review
of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 21, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring &
Summer 1989.
54. With
Francis Green, The Worker Discipline Effect: A Disaggregative Analysis," The
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 72, No. 2, May 1990.
55. With Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Right-Wing
Economics Backfired," Challenge, Vol. 34, No. 1, January-February
1991.
56. "Economic
and Political Prospects in
57. Autobiographical
statement in Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (eds.), Dictionary of
Dissenting Economists, Edward Elgar Publishers, London, 1991; revised
version in ibid., 2nd edition, 2000.
58. "A
Comparative Analysis of Profitability Trends in the Advanced Capitalist
Economies," in Fred Moseley and Edward Wolff (eds.), International
Perspectives on Profitability and Accumulation, Edward Elgar Publishers,
59. "Marxian
Crisis Theory and the Contradictions of Late Twentieth Century
Capitalism," Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 1992;
reprinted in Victor Lippit (ed.), Radical Political Economy: Explorations in
Alternative Economic Analysis, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, N.Y., 1996.
60. "Challenges
to Market Socialism," Dissent, Vol. 39, No. 2, Spring
1992.
61. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "We Need Handshakes and Arm-Twisting to
Mobilize our Recovery," Challenge, Vol. 35, No. 2, March-April
1992.
62. "The
Case for Market Socialism," Keizai Kenkyu (The Economic Review,
published in
63. "Toward
a Socialism for the Future, in the Wake of the Demise of the Socialism of the
Past," Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 24, Nos. 3-4,
Winter 1992; reprinted in David L. Prychitko (ed.), Why Economists Disagree:
An Introduction to Contemporary Schools of Thought, State University of New
York Press, New York, 1996, and in Victor Lippit (ed.), Radical Political
Ecomomy: Explorations in Alternative Economic Analysis, M.E. Sharpe, Inc.,
Armonk, N.Y., 1996.
64. "Incentives
and Equity Problems in Confronting the International Debt Crisis," The
Indian Economic Review, Special Number in Honor of Sukhamoy Chakravarty
(1992).
65. "Russia
in Transition: The Perils of the Fast Track to Capitalism," Challenge,
Vol. 35, No. 6, November-December 1992, pp. 29-38; Russian translation in Trudovye
Otnosheniya (Labor Relations, published in Moscow), No. 1, 1992, pp. 61-78.
66. "The
Case for a Universal Basic Income Grant," in Bunyan Bryant (ed.), The
Future: Images for the 21th Century, University of Michigan Office of
Minority Affairs, Ann Arbor, MI, 1993, pp. 21-36.
67. With
Alexander Bim and Derek Jones, "Hybrid Forms of
68. "Is
There Really
69. "Democratic
Self-Management: An Alternative Approach to Economic Transformation in the
Former Soviet Union," in Bertram Silverman,
70. "Alternative
Social Structure of Accumulation Approaches to the Analysis of Capitalist Booms
and Crises," in David Kotz, Terrence McDonough and Michael Reich (eds.), Social
Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis,
71. "A
Democratic-Enterprise-Based Market Socialism," in Pranab Bardhan and John
Roemer (eds.), Market Socialism: The Current Debate,
72. "Yeltsin's
73. With
Alexander Bim and Derek Jones, "Privatization in the Former Soviet Union
and the New Russia," in Saul Estrin (ed.), Privatisation in Central and
Eastern Europe, Longmans, London, 1994, pp. 252-278.
74. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Right-Wing Economics in the U.S.: The
Anatomy of Failure," in M.A. Bernstein and D. Adler (eds.), Understanding
American Economic Decline, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK),
1994, pp. 243-275.
75. "Myths
and Realities of Privatization in
76. "Economic
Perspectives on Privatization" (translated into Polish), in the volume of
selected papers from the October 1993 international conference, Privatization
and Socioeconomic Policy in Central and Eastern Europe, Krakow Regional
Development Agency (Poland), 1994, pp. 79-94.
77. "Market
Socialism in the East," Dissent, Vol. 42, No. 1, Winter
1995, pp. 82-88.
78. With
Peter Dorman, Nancy Folbre and Donald McCloskey, "Debating Markets," Feminist
Economics, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 69-85.
79. With
Derek Jones, "Employee Ownership and Control: Evidence from
80. "The
Prospects for Democratic Market Socialism in the East," in Erik O. Wright
(ed.), Equal Shares: Making Market Socialism Work, Verso Books,
81. With
Frank Ackerman, Oleg Ananyin and
82. "Economics
Without History: The Effort To Westernize The East," in Nahid Aslanbeigui
and Young Back Choi (eds.), Borderlands of Economics: Essays in Honor of
Daniel R. Fusfeld,
83. With
Samuel Bowles, "David M. Gordon: Economist and Public Intellectual
(1944-1996)," Economic Journal, Vol. 108, No. 1, January 1998, pp.
153-164.
84. With
Nancy Folbre, "Did Father Know Best?
Families, Markets, and the Supply of Caring Labor," in Avner
Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman (eds.), Economics, Values and Organization,
Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 171-205.
85. "Economic
Perspectives on Privatization in Russia, 1990-1994" in June Gary Hopps and
Demetrius S. Iatridis (eds.), Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe:
Perspectives and Approaches, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998, pp. 104-121.
86. With Samuel Bowles, Introduction to Samuel Bowles and Thomas
E. Weisskopf (eds.), Economics and Social Justice: Essays on Power, Labor
and Institutional Change, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (
87. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Power, Profits and Investment: An
Institutionalist Explanation of the Stagnation of
88. With
Samuel Bowles, "David M. Gordon: Radical Political Economist and Activist
(1944-1996)," Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 31, No.
1, Winter 1999, pp. 1-15.
89. "Left
Perspectives on Long-Term Trends in Capitalism," in Robert Pollin (ed.), Capitalism,
Socialism and Radical Political Economy: Essays in Honor of Howard J. Sherman,
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (
90. Review
of Jim Stanford, Lance Taylor & Ellen Houston, eds., Power, Employment
and Accumulation: Social Structures in Economic Theory and Practice,
91. “The Consequences of Affirmative Action in
92. "Globalization
and Affirmative Action," Economic
and Political Weekly
(Bombay, India), Vol. 38, No. 27, July 5, 2003, pp. 2818-2819; reprinted in
Sukhadeo Thorat et al., “Reservation and Private Sector, Indian
Institute of Dalit Studies & Rawat Publications, New Delhi (India), 2005,
pp. 263-266.
93. "The Impact of Reservation on Admissions
to Higher Education in India," Economic
and Political Weekly
(Bombay, India), Vol. 39, No. 39, Sept. 25, 2004, pp. 4339-49; reprinted as “Some Aspects of
Reservation in Higher Education” in
Sukhadeo Thorat et al., “Reservation and Private Sector, Indian
Institute of Dalit Studies & Rawat Publications, New Delhi (India), 2005,
pp. 389-402.
94. "Is Positive Discrimination a
95. “With Reservations,” The Little Magazine
(
96. “Affirmative
Action in Higher Education,” Seminar (
97. “Equal and Efficient Globalization” – a
review of Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles & Michael Wallerstein, eds., Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution (New York: Oxford University Press,
2006) – in Economic and Political
Weekly (Bombay, India), Vol.
42, No. 15, April 14, 2007, pp. 1346-1347.
98. "Affirmative Action," entry in William A. Darity, Jr., ed., The
International
Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences,
2nd edition, MacMillan Reference USA, published by Thomson Gale, Detroit, 2008,
pp. 30-32.
99. "Quota Systems," entry in William A. Darity, Jr., ed., The
International
Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences,
2nd edition, MacMillan Reference USA, published by Thomson Gale, Detroit, 2008,
pp. 668-670.
100. "A experiência da Índia com ação
afirmativa na seleção para o ensino superior" ("India's Experience
with Affirmative Action in Admissions to Higher Educational
Institutions"), in Jonas Zoninsein and Joao Feres Jr. (eds.), Ação afirmativa no Ensino Superior
Brasileiro, Editora UFMG, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), 2008, pp. 35-60.
101. "On Spreading the Wealth" (a memo
to President Barack Obama), Tikkun, Vol. 24, No. 1, January-February
2009, pp. 87-88.
102. Review
of Robert J. Ross, Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New
Sweatshops, Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2004, in the Review of Radical Political
Economics, forthcoming, 2009
OTHER PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND
DOCUMENTS:
1. "A
Social Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Panagua Project," paper prepared for
the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, August 1966.
2. "Commercial
Profitability and National Economic Profitability," paper prepared for the
United Nations Industrial Development Organization, March 1968.
3. "On
the Measurement of Benefits and Costs," paper prepared for the United
Nations Industrial Development Organization, May 1968.
4. "Collective
Notes of the First Friendship Delegation of American Radical Political
Economists to the People's Republic of China," volume coordinated and
assembled for circulation by the
5. "An
Evaluation of the Role of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation,"
statement presented at the hearings of the Sub-Committee on Foreign Economic
Policy of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congress of the United States, 93rd
Congress, 1st Session, May 22, 1973.
6. "American
Economic Interests in Foreign Countries:
An Empirical Survey," paper prepared for presentation at a
conference on internal and external policies of the United States at the
University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, April 8-12, 1974; available as Discussion
Paper No. 35 of the Center for Research on Economic Development, The University
of Michigan, April 1974.
7. "Dependence
as an Explanation of Underdevelopment: A
Critique," Paper presented to the Sixth National Meeting of the Latin
American Studies Association, in Atlanta, March 1976; available as Discussion
Paper No. 66 of the Center for Research on Economic Development, The University
of Michigan, February 1977.
8. "Conflict
and Power on the Campus: Studies in the
Political Economy of the University of Michigan," report prepared with
Andy Brown, Harley Frazis, Jim Robb, Mike Taylor and Eitan Yanich, as members
of the Student/Faculty Research Community of the Social Science Program,
Residential College, The Univerity of Michigan, June 1978.
9. With
Samuel Rosenberg, "A Conflict Model of Inflation Applied to the Postwar
10. "Worker
Security and Capitalist Prosperity: An International Comparative
Analysis," working paper reporting on research carried out under a
Research Fellowship awarded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States,
March, 1985.
11. "Toward
a New Approach to the Analysis of the Current Capitalist Crisis," working
paper presented at the meeting of the Macroeconomic Working Group on Wages,
Prices and Productivity at the
12. "Labor
Productivity and Capital Intensity in a Putty-Clay Vintage-Capital
Framework," working paper presented at the meeting of the Macroeconomic
Working Group on Wages, Prices and Productivity at the
13. "Class
Conflict or Class Harmony?: A Study of the Effect of Worker Security on
Productivity Growth in Eight Advanced Capitalist Economies," working paper
presented at the Seminar in Alternative Economic Theory, Harvard University,
November 1985.
14. "Sources
of Profit Rate Decline in the Advanced Capitalist Economies: An Empirical Test
of the High-Employment Profit Squeeze Theory," working paper presented at
the Winter meetings of the Union for Radical Political Economics in New York
City, December 1985.
15. "Neo-Marxian
and Neo-Kaleckian Approaches to the Determination of Capitalist
Profitability," working paper presented at the Summer
meetings of the Union for Radical Political Economics in
16. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "A Conflict Model of Investment: The
Determinants of U.S. Capital Accumulation in a Global Context," working
paper presented at the regional meetings of the Union for Radical Political
Economics in Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 1986.
17. "Distribution and Profitability in a Closed Economy: Toward a Reconciliation of Neo-Marxian and Neo-Kaleckian Theories," working paper presented at the meeting of the Macroeconomic Working Group on Wages, Prices and Productivity at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, January 1987.
18. "Sources
of Political Activism in Southeastern Michigan," report prepared with
David Burton, Catherine Cohen, Ed Feil, Ted Gerber, Lori Lewis, Scott Lipsitz,
Jolie Spring, and Arlin Wasserman, as members of the Student/Faculty Research
Community of the Social Science Program, Residential College, The University of
Michigan, June 1987.
19. "International
Competition and the Distribution of Income: A Neo-Kaleckian Model of an Open
World Economy," working paper presented at the meeting of the
Macroeconomic Working Group on Wages, Prices and Productivity, at Harvard
University, December 1987.
20. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "The Economic Crisis in the United
States: A Social Structure of Accumulation Approach," paper presented at
the International Conference on the Theory of Regulation at the Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, June 1988.
21. "Incentive
and Equity Problems in Confronting the International Debt Crisis," paper
presented to the 57th Symposium of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World
Affairs, on "Foreign Debts and International Stability," held in
22. "Reflections
on a Trip to
23. With Samuel Bowles and David Gordon, "Power, Profits,
and Investment: An Institutionalist Explanation of the Stagnation of
24. With
Samuel Bowles and David M. Gordon, "Handshakes, Fairness and Arm-Twisting:
Analytical Foundations of a Progressive Macroeconomic Strategy," paper
presented at the annual Winter meetings of the American Economic Association
and the Union for Radical Political Economics in New Orleans, January 1992.
25. "The
Drive Toward Capitalism in East Central Europe: Is There No Other Way?,"
working paper presented at the annual Winter meetings of the Union for Radical
Political Economics in New Orleans, January 1992.
26. With Alexander Bim and Derek Jones, "The Growth of
Private Enterprise and Institutional Change in the Former
27. "What
Happened in
28. "Proposals
for Broadening the Introductory Economics Curriculum," paper presented at
the International Conference on "The Present and the Future of Economic
Education in
29. "Markets
and Society" and "Problems and Policies," two sets of four
chapters each, prepared for the introductory economics textbook Microeconomics
in Context but deemed too advanced to be included in the published editions
(see #8 and #9 on the list of books above).
30. “The
Role of Privatization in the Transformation of Soviet-Style Socialist
Economies,” paper presented at the International Conference on Privatization in
Balkan and Black Sea Countries,”
31. “The
Benefits and Costs of Affirmative Action: An Analysis of Arguments For and
Against Affirmative Action in Admissions to Higher Educational Institutions,”
working paper, February 2002.
32. “The
Consequences of Affirmative Action in Admissions to Higher Educational
Institutions: Empirical Evidence from the
33. “
34. “Reflections
on Globalization, Discrimination and Affirmative Action,” paper presented to a
conference on “Global Studies of Discrimination,” sponsored by the Princeton
Institute for International and Regional Studies, at
35. "Rethinking Affirmative
Action in Admissions to Higher Educational Institutions," paper presented
to a conference on “Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India, the United
States and South Africa” organized by the Programme for the Study of
Discrimination and Exclusion, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, and the Centre for Comparative Constitutionalism, University of
Chicago, in New Delhi, March 19-21, 2008.
DOCTORAL
DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED (as committee chair):
1.
2. Brett
A. Smith, "Forms of Workers' Participation in Management and Their Impact
on
3. Bruce
E. Steinberg, "Social Class Background as a Determinant of Labor
Earnings," The
4. Lee
A. Reynis, "The Proliferation of U.S. Firm Third World Offshore Sourcing
in the Mid-to-late 1960's: A Historical and Empirical Study of Factors which
Occasioned the Location of Production for the U.S. Market Abroad," The
University of Michigan, August 1976.
5. Linda
Y.C. Lim, "Multinational Firms and Manufacturing for Export in Less
Developed Countries: The Case of the
Electronics Industry in
6. Mark
E. Browning, "An Econometric Investigation of the Relationship Between Population Growth and Income Growth in Developing
Countries," The
7. Abdolhamid
Mohtadi, "Internal Migration and Urban Inequality: An Econometric Analysis of the Case of
Iranian Development, 1966-76," The
8. Shahrukh
Rafi Khan, "Profit and Loss Sharing:
An Economic Analysis of an Islamic Financial System," The
9. Gilbert
Skillman, "Microfoundations of the Conflict Theory of the Firm," The
10. Denis
A. O'Hearn, "Export-Led Industrialization in
11. Eban
S. Goodstein, "Two Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization: Tests of
Industry Structure and Accounting for Changes in Industry Profitability,"
The
12. Christophre
Georges, "Three Essays in the Macroeconomics of Labor Market
Dynamics," The
13. Mark
Greer, "Expectations, Uncertainty, and the New Deal," The
14. David
Andrews, "The Relationship Between Sraffa and
Keynes: Toward A Reconciliation," The
15. Mark
Weisbrot, "Ideology and Method in the History of Development
Economics," The
16. Hoseon
Hwang, "The Postwar Long-Wave and
17.
Frank Thompson, "Essays on Socialism, Technology and Growth,"
The
18. Adam
Lutzker, "Toward a Non-Formalist Economics," The
UNIVERSITY
SERVICE:
1. College
Referee (for student grievances),
2. Coordinator
of the Social Science Program, Residential College, University of
3.
4. Member,
Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Grievance Procedure, College of Literature, Science
and the Arts, University of Michigan (1983-84).
5. Member,
Executive Committee of the Residential College, University of
6. Faculty
7. Coordinator
of the Social Science Program, Residential College, University of
8. Member,
Faculty Advisory Committee for the Comprehensive Studies Program, University of
9. Member,
Educational Policies Committee, Residential College, University of
10. Member,
Committee for the Pre-Concentration Years,
11. Member,
Evaluations Committee, Residential College,
12. Member,
Executive Committee, Residential College, University of
13. Member,
Rackham Grant Award Committee, University of
14. Member,
LS&A/RC Liaison Committee, University of
15. Member,
RC Advisory Committee (1995-2001).
16. Member,
LS&A/RC Liaison Committee, University of
17. Member ex
officio, LS&A Curriculum Committee,
18. Member,
Academic Services Board,
19. Member,
Planning Committee for the Winter 1999 Theme Semester
on "Diversity: Theories and Practices,"
20. Member,
Provost's Working Group on Undergraduate Teaching and Learning, University of
21. Member
ex officio, LS&A/RC Liaison
Committee for Long-Term Planning,
22. Member
ex officio, Provost’s Committee on
23. Chair,
Search Committee for the Vice-President for Student Affairs, University of
24. Member,
International Institute Graduate Board,
25. Member,
LS&A Admissions Advisory Committee,
26. Member,
Admissions and Fellowship Committee, Center for South Asian Studies, University
of
27. Member,
University Shared Governance Task Force,
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE:
1. Associate
Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics (1968-72).
2. Associate
Editor, International Economic Review (1972-75).
3. Associate
Editor, Review of Radical Political Economics (1973-75).
4. Associate
Editor, Journal of Development Economics (1973-76).
5. Member,
Committee on Political Discrimination, American Economic Association (1975-78).
6. Associate
Editor, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (1977-81).
7. Referee,
8. Associate
Editor, Review of Radical Political Economics (1982-84).
9. Editor
of a special double-issue of the Review of Radical Political Economics,
Vol. XVIII, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring & Summer 1986, on "Empirical Work
on Marxian Crisis Theory."
10. Associate
Editor, International Review of Applied Economics, (1986- ).
GRANTS,
FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS
1. Twentieth
Century Fund, Research Grant award (to carry out research on "Capitalism
and Underdevelopment in
2. University
of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, Faculty Development
Fund award (to prepare and team-teach a new
undergraduate course on "Alternative Approaches to Economic
Development," with Frederick Cooper), 1983.
3. German
Marshall Fund of the United States, Research Fellowship award (to carry out
research on "Worker Security and Capitalist Prosperity: An International
Comparative Analysis"), 1984-85.
4. U.S. National Science Foundation, Research Grant award (to carry
out research on "Worker Security in Western Economies"), 1985-88.
5. University
of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, Faculty Development
Fund award (to prepare a new undergraduate course in the Residential College on
"Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences," with Erna-Lynne
Bogue), 1990.
6. University of Michigan, Committee on International Studies,
Faculty Enhancement Fund award (to travel to
7. International
Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Developmental Fellowship award to support
Russian language training and Soviet area studies in preparation for research
on "New Patterns of Enterprise Ownership and Control in the Contemporary
Soviet Economic Reform Process," 1991-1992.
8. University of Michigan, School of Business Administration, Center
for International Business Education, Faculty Research Grant (for travel to
9. University
of Michigan, University Council on International Academic Affairs, grant of
$3000 to cover expenses associated with research and consultation in
10. University
of Michigan, International Institute, Faculty International Travel Grant (for
travel to Prague, Krakow, and Moscow to undertake research, attend a
conference, and explore academic exchanges with the Russian State University
for the Humanities), 1993.
11. University
of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, Faculty Development
Fund award (to prepare and team-teach a new
undergraduate course in the
12. Entry
in Simon Jones and Mark Blaug (ed.), Who's Who in Economics, 1700-1995
(MIT Press, 1996) and Who's Who in Economics, 1700-1998 (Edward Elgar,
1999)
13. University
of Michigan, Office of the Vice-President for Research, Horace Rackham Graduate
School, and International Institute, grants totaling $4100 to cover expenses
associated with travel to and research in India (on "Affirmative Action in
India: the Long-Run Impact of Reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes in Higher Education"), 2000.
OTHER
ACTIVITIES
1. Visiting
Lecturer at Lviv State University (Ukraine), under an academic exchange program
financed by a grant from the USIA to the UM Center for Russian and East
European Studies, to deliver lectures on macroeconomics, May 1992.
2. Visiting
Lecturer at the
3. Visiting
Lecturer at the
4. Collaborator
on and consultant to the project on "Developing Economics Curricula for
New Market Economies," initiated by Dr. Neva Goodwin of the Global
Development and Environmental Institute (Tufts University) under a grant from
the Eurasia Foundation, with the objective of preparing an introductory
economics textbook for use in Russia, starting in 1994.
5. Expert witness on the effects of a “living
wage” in the case: