CURRICULUM VITAE
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Richard D. Wolff
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
Office tel: 413-545-6351
Office FAX: 413-545-2921
Home address: 64 W 15th St., Apt 1W,
New York, New York 10011
Home telephone: 646-336-8443
Home FAX: 646-336-7078
Email: rdwolff@worldnet.att.net
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Place and Date of Birth: Youngstown, Ohio, April 1, 1942
Marital Status: Married, two children, ages 31 and 28
Education:
B.A. magna cum laude
M.A. Economics
M.A. Economics
M.A. History
Ph.D. Economics
Harvard
Stanford
Yale
Yale
Yale
1963
1964
1966
1967
1969
Language Proficiency: Fluent in French and German
Positions Held:
Professor, Economics Univ. of Mass. since 1981
Assoc. Prof., Economics Univ. of Mass. 1973-1981
Asst.Prof., Economics City College, CUNY, 1969-1973
Instructor, Economics Yale, 1967-1969
[Visiting Professor, University of Paris I (Sorbonne),
Spring, 1994]
Published Work:
Books:
The Economics of Colonialism: Britain and Kenya,
1870-1930, New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 1974.
Rethinking Marxism: Struggles in Marxist Theory [Essays in honor of Paul M. Sweezy
and Harry Magdoff], (co-edited with Stephen A. Resnick),
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New York: Autonomedia Press, 1985. **
Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political
Economy (co-authored with Stephen A. Resnick),
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press,
1987.
Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical (co-authored with Stephen A. Resnick),
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
[Japanese edition, new introduction, translated by N. Hirai and K. Takita, published in
Tokyo: Aoki Shoten, 1991]
Bringing it all Back Home: Class and Gender in the Modern Household
(co-authored with Harriet Fraad and Stephen Resnick), London: Pluto
Press and Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
Political Economy of Capitalism. Co-edited with A. Vlachou. Athens: Athens University of
Economics and Business, 1993 (in Greek).
Class and its Others (co-edited with Katherine Gibson, Julie Graham, and
Stephen A. Resnick), Minneapolis and London: University of
Minnesota Press, 2000.
Re/Presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Political Economy (co-edited with
Katherine Gibson, Julie Graham, and Stephen A. Resnick), Chapel
Hill and London: Duke University Press, 2001.
Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR (with Stephen
Resnick). New York and London: Routledge, 2002. Translations of this book have now been
published in Portuguese, Greek, and Korean editions.
Articles:
"Economic Aspects of British Colonialism in Kenya,
1895-1930," Journal of Economic History, XXX:1
(March 1970), 273-277.
"Modern Imperialism: the View from the Metropolis,"
American Economic Review, LX:2 (May 1970),
225-230.**
"The Economic Expansion of United States Banks,"
Monthly Review, XXIII:1 (May 1971), 17-30.**
"British Imperialism and the East African Slave Trade,"
Science and Society, XXXVI:4 (Winter 1972),
443-462.
"On Marxism and Marginalism," History of Political
Economy, 7 (1975), 270-272.
"Hegemonic Powers in the Contemporary World," in I.
Wallerstein, ed., World Inequality, Montreal:
Laval University Press, 1975, 29-51.**
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"Alienation and Human Needs: A Note," Monthly Review
XXVII:9 (February 1976), 58-61.
"Marxist Theory and History: A Review Essay," Review of Radical
Political Economics, 9:4 (Winter 1977), 87-94.
"Economics, Advertising and Consumer Culture: a Review Essay,"
Monthly Review XXIX:10 (March 1978) 49-55.
"Marxian Crisis Theory: Structure and Implications,"
Review of Radical Political Economics 10:1 (Spring 1978), 47-58.
"Western Marxism-A Review Essay," Monthly Review
XXX:4 (September 1978), 55-64.
"The Theory of Transitional Conjunctures and the
Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism" (with
S. Resnick), Review of Radical Political Economics
11:3 (Autumn 1979), 3-22 and 32-36.
"Class Structures in Developing Societies" (with S.
Resnick), in W. Ladd Holist and James Rosenau,
Eds., World System Structure, Beverly Hills and
London: Sage Publications, 1981, 243-260.
"A Reformulation of Marxian Theory and Historical Analysis"
(with S. Resnick), The Journal of Economic History 42:1
(March 1982), 53-60.
"The End of Being Consistent by Hans Magnus Enzensberger," a translation from the German (with L. Wolff),
Semiotexte 4:2 (1982), 160-174.
"Marx's - not Ricardo's - 'Transformation Problem': a Radical
Reconceptualisation" (with B. Roberts and A. Callari),
History of Political Economy 14:4 (Winter 1982), 564-582.
"Classes in Marxian Theory" (with S. Resnick), Review of
Radical Political Economics 13:4 (Winter 1982), 1-18.
"Marxist Epistemology: The Critique of Economic
Determinism" (with S. Resnick), Social Text 6 (Fall 1982), 31-72.
"A Marxist Theory of the State" (with S. Resnick), in Larry L. Wade, ed.,
Political Economy: Recent Views, Boston and the Hague:
Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1983, 122-151.
"Reply to Houston and Lindsay on Classes in Marxian Theory"
(with S. Resnick), Review of Radical Political Economics 15:1
(Spring 1983), 156-160.
"David Harvey, Marxist Economics and Geography - a Review Essay,"
Economic Geography, (Summer 1984), 81-85.
"Unsnarling the Tangle"(with B. Roberts and A. Callari), History of
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Political Economy 16:3 (Fall 1984), 431- 436.
"A Marxian Alternative to the Transformation Problem" (with B. Roberts
and A. Callari), Review of Radical Political Economy, 16:2
(Summer/Fall 1984), 115-135.
"Neoclassical Economics and Marxism," (with S. Resnick)
Monthly Review (December 1984), 29-46.**
"Class Analysis of International Relations" (with S. Resnick and J. Sinisi),
in W. Ladd Hollist and F. LaMond Tullis, eds., An International
Political Economy, Boulder: Westview Press, 1985, 87-123.
"Solutions and Problems" (with S. Resnick) in Resnick and Wolff, eds.,
Rethinking Marxism: Struggles in Marxist Theory, New York:
Autonomedia Press, 1985, ix - xxxiv.
"A Marxian Reconceptualisation of Income and its Distribution"
(with S. Resnick) in Ibid., 319-344.
"Power, Property and Class" (with S. Resnick) Socialist Review 86
(Spring 1986), 97-124.
"Marxism and Post-Marxism" (with Stephen Cullenberg) Social Text
15 (Fall 1986), 126-135.
"What are Class Analyses?" (with S. Resnick) in Paul Zarembka, ed.,
Research Annual in Political Economy, Vol. 9, Greenwich:
JAI Press, 1986, 44-67.
"Class, Power and Culture" (with J. Amariglio and S. Resnick), in
C. Nelson and L. Grossberg, eds., Marxism and the
Interpretation of Culture, Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1988, 487-502.
"Marxian Theory and the Rhetoric of Economics" (with S. Resnick)
in Robert Solow, Donald McCloskey and Arjo Klamer, editors,
The Rhetorics of Economics, Cambridge and New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1988, 47-63.
"Communism: Between Class and Classless," (with S. Resnick),
Rethinking Marxism, 1:1 (Spring, 1988), 14- 48.
"The New Marxian Economics: Building on Althusser's Legacy,"
(with Stephen Resnick), Economies et Socie tes: Histoire de la
pensee economique [Economics journal published by the
Institute of Applied Mathematical Sciences in Paris] No. 11
(March 1989), 185-200.
"Gramsci, Marxism and Philosophy," Rethinking Marxism, 2:2
(Summer 1989), 41-57.
"Radical Differences Among Radical Theories,"(with S. Resnick),
Review of Radical Political Economics, 20:2-3 (Summer
and Fall, 1988), 1-6.
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"For Every Knight in Shining Armor, There's a Kitchen Waiting to be
Cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of the Household,"
(with Harriet Fraad and S. Resnick), Rethinking Marxism
3:1 (Winter 1989), 10-69.
"China Today and Class Analysis," (with S. Resnick), Rethinking
Marxism (Spring 1990), 157-163.
"Une Nouvelle Theorie des Institutions," (with S. Resnick), Economie
Applique XLIII: No. 3 (1990), 111- 129.
"Division and Difference in the 'Discipline' of Economics," (with J.
Amariglio and S. Resnick), Critical Inquiry 17:1 (Autumn 1990),
108-137. Revised version published in Messer-Davidow, Ellen,
Shumway, David, and Sylvan, David, eds., Knowledges: Historical
and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity. Charlottesville and
London: University of Virginia Press, 1993, pp. 150-184.
"Class, Patriarchy and Power" (with H. Fraad and S. Resnick),
Rethinking Marxism 3:2 (Summer 1990), 124-144.
"The Marxist Theoretical Tradition: One View," Rethinking
Marxism 3:3-4 (Fall-Winter 1990), 329-336.
"Class Beyond the Nation State" (with David Ruccio and S. Resnick),
in a special joint issue on Global Perspectives on Capitalism
of Capital and Class and The Review of Radical Political Economics,
22:1 (Spring 1990), 14-27.
"Althusser's Contribution" (with S. Resnick), Rethinking Marxism 4:1
(Spring 1991), 13-16.
"Criticizing Social Criticism," Boundary 2, 18:2 (Summer 1991), 207-226.
"Radical Economics: A Tradition of Theoretical Differences,"
(with S. Resnick), in B. Roberts and Feiner, eds., Radical
Economics, Boston/The Hague: Kluwer Nijhoff, 1992, pp. 15-43.
"On Overdetermination: Reply to Richard Peet" (with S. Resnick).
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 24:2 (April, 1992), 131-140.
"Alternative Theories in the Teaching of Economics" (with F. Moseley).
In D. Colander and R. Brenner, eds. Educating Economists, Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992, 243-248.
"Everythingism, or Better Still, Overdetermination." (With S. Resnick).
New Left Review 195 (September/October 1992), 124-127.
"The Specter of Surplus in Economics." Review of Radical Political
Economics 24:3-4 (Fall & Winter 1992), 209-217.
"Althusser's Liberation of Marxian Theory." (With S. Resnick). In
Kaplan, E. Ann and Sprinker, Michael, eds., The Althusserian
Legacy. London and New York: Verso, 1993, pp. 59-72.
"State Capitalism in the USSR: A High-Stakes Debate." (With S. Resnick).
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Rethinking Marxism 6:2 (Summer, 1993), 46-68.
"The Spectre Still Haunts." (With S. Resnick). Polygraph
6/7 (Summer, 1993), 119-125.
"Rethinking Complexity in Economic Theory: the Challenge of
Overdetermination" (with S. Resnick). In Richard W. England, Ed.
Evolutionary Concepts in Contemporary Economics,
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994, pp. 39-60.
"Capitalisms, Socialisms, Communisms: A Marxist View." (With S. Resnick).
In Agger, Ben, ed., Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 14.
Greenwich, CT. and London: JAI Press, 1994, pp. 135-150.
"Between State and Private Capitalism: What Was Soviet "Socialism"?
(with S. Resnick), Rethinking Marxism 7:1 (Spring 1994), 9-30.
**"Lessons from the USSR: Taking Marxian Theory the Next Step."
(With S. Resnick). In Magnus, B. and Cullenberg, S., eds.,
Whither Marxism? London and New York: Routledge, 1994,
pp. 207-234. This article was translated by Akio Kano and
published in the Japanese academic journal Hokuriku Hogaku
[Journal of Law and Political Science, Hokuriku University]
Vol. III, No. 4 (March 1996), 105-146.
"Markets do not a Class Structure Make." In A. Callari, S. Cullenberg,
and C. Biewener, Eds. Marxism in the Postmodern Age. New York:
Guilford Publications, 1994, pp. 390-399.
"The End of the USSR" (with S. Resnick). In. A. Callari, S. Cullenberg, and
C. Biewener, Eds. Marxism in the Postmodern Age. New York:
Guilford Publications, 1994, pp. 321-330.
"Modern Ancients: Self-employed Truckers" (With Gabriel Fried).
Rethinking Marxism 7:4 (Winter 1994), 103-115.
"Magritte: A Painter Brushes with Overdetermination." Rethinking Marxism
8:1 (Spring 1995), 27-47.
"Review of Louis Althusser's The Future Lasts Forever." In Rethinking
Marxism 8:2 (Summer 1995), 123-134.
“Introduction” to T. Benton, R. Grundmann, and A. Vlachou, Editors.
Nature and Society: A Debate over Ecology, Marxism, and
Knowledge. Athens: Delfini Publishers, 1995 (in Greek).
"Althusser and Hegel: Making Marxist Explanations Antiessentialist and
Dialectical." In A. Callari and D.F. Ruccio, Eds. Postmodern
Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory. Hanover and
London: Wesleyan University Press, 1996, 150-163.
"The New Marxian Political Economy and the Contribution of Althusser"
(with S. Resnick). In Callari and Ruccio, Ibid., 167-192.
"Markets, Private Property, Socialism and Communism" (with S. Resnick).
In C. Polychroniou and H.R. Targ, Eds., Marxism Today: Essays
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on Capitalism, Socialism and Strategies for Social Change. Westport
and London: Praeger, 1996, 119-142.
"Nondeterminist Marxism: The Birth of a Postmodern Tradition in
Economics," (with J. Amariglio, A. Callari, S. Resnick, and D.
Ruccio), in Fred E. Foldvary, Ed., Beyond Neoclassical Economics:
Heterodox Approaches to Economic Theory. Cheltenham, UK and
Brookfield, US: Edward Elgar, 1996, 134-147.
"Reply to Aronson." Rethinking Marxism Vol 9. No 3 (Fall 1996-1997), 76-79.
"Why Provoke this Strike? Yale and the U.S. Economy." Short version
published in Social Text 49 (Winter 1996), 21-24. Longer version
published in Cary Nelson, Ed., Will Teach for Food: Academic
Labor in Crisis, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
“The Transformation Trinity: Value, Value Form, and Price.” (With A. Callari,
B. Roberts). In Ricardo Bellofiore, Ed., Marxian Economics: A
Reappraisal, vol. 2. London: Macmillan, 1998, and New York: St.
Martins Press, 1998, pp. 43-56.
"The New Right's Economics: A Diagnosis and Counterattack," in Amy Ansell,
Ed., Divided We Fall: The Agenda of the Conservative Movement,
Boulder Colorado and Oxford: Westview Press, 1998, pp. 211-227.
Philip O’Hara, Ed. Encyclopedia of Political Economy. London and
New York: Routledge, 1999. I was a member of the Editorial Team that
compiled this encyclopedia (p. vii) and also authored 8 substantial entries.
“Althusser’s Importance Today.” Rethinking Marxism 10:3 (Fall 1998), 90-93.
“Marxian Theory as Critique of Democracy.” In John Milios, Louka Katseli, and
Theodore Pelagidis, Eds. Rethinking Democracy and the Welfare State.
Athens: Ellinika Grammata, 1999, 17-27. Reprinted in Pelagidis, Katseli,
and Milios, Eds. Welfare State and Demcoracy in Crisis. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2001, 51-60.
“Marxism, Class Analysis, and the USSR: A Y2K Perspective.” Published in the
online magazine Bad Subjects, Berkeley, CA., October, 1999,
http://eserver.org/bs/45
“Marxism and Democracy.” Rethinking Marxism 12:1 (Spring 2000), 112-122.
“Class and Monopoly” (co-authored with Stephen Resnick” In Robert Pollin, Ed.,
Capitalism, Socialism, and Radical Political Economy: Essays in Honor
of Howard J. Sherman. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward
Elgar, 2000, pages 154-176.
“Die US-Wirtschaft im Jahr 2000 – eine marxistische Analyse.” Arbeiterstimme:
Zeitschrift for marxistische Theorie und Praxis Nr. 130,29 Jahrgang
(Nurnberg: Dezember 2000), 24-28.
“The US Economy in 2000.” [Chinese translation] Dangdai Jingji Yanjiu [Contemporary
Economic Research] Vol. 65, No. 1 (January, 2001), 7-12.
“Struggles in the USSR: Communisms Attempted and Undone.” (co-authored with
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Stephen A. Resnick). In Gibson, Graham, Resnick, and Wolff, Editors.,
Re/Presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Political Economy, op.cit., 2001.
Chapter 12, 264-290.
“Louis Althusser.” In Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli, Editors. Postmodernism: The
Key Figures, London and New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, 7-12.
“Economic Crisis in the USA” Translated as “Az Egyesult Allamok gazdasagi valsaga”
in Eszmelet, No. 51 (Budapest, 2001), 4-20.
“The U.S. Economic Crisis: A Marxian Analysis.” Theoria: A Journal of Social and
Political Theory. (Journal published in South Africa by the University of Natal)
No. 97 (June 2001), 82-98.
“Capitalist Economy and Terrorism” Translated as “Kapitalist ekonomi ve terorizm” in
Birikim (Istanbul) 150 (Ekim 2001), 76-78.
Another version of this article published in Italian as “Gli USA e lo sviluppo
Diseguale. Economia capitalista e terrorismo” in Proteo: rivista a carattere di analisi
delle dinamiche economico-produttive e di politiche del lavoro No. 1 (2002), 44-47.
“Empire and Class Analysis” (with S. Resnick). Rethinking Marxism 13:3/4 (Fall/Winter 2001),
61-69.
“Capitalist Hegemony and Contesting Concepts of Class” Socialism and Democracy,
16:2 (Summer-Fall 2002), 153-162.
“The U.S. Economic Crisis: A Marxian Analysis.” Rethinking Marxism, 14:1 (Spring 2002), 118-131.
“Long Term Global War” (with S. Resnick). Rethinking Marxism 14:2 (Summer 2002), 128-132.
“’Efficiency’: Whose Efficiency?” in post-autistic economics review, no. 16 (October 17, 2002) an
electronic journal at www.paecon.net
“Marxism’s Renewal Means Marxism’s Debate.” (with S. Resnick) Radical Society 29:3 (October
2002), 108-110.
“World Bank/Class Blindness” in Amitava Kumar, Editor. World Bank Literature. Minneapolis and
London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, pp. 172-183.
“Colonialism in Africa and Reparations: A Class Analysis.” In Rethinking Marxism 15:1 (January
2003), pp. 141-150.
“A Reply to Perino on the Absurdity of ‘Efficiency’” in post-autistic economics review. No 18
(February 5, 2003) an electronic journal at www.paecon.net
“Class and Monopoly” (with S. Resnick) in International Journal of Applied Economics and
Econometrics. 11:1 (January-March), pp. 59-86.
“The Empire’s War on Iraq” (with Max Fraad-Wolff) in Bad Subjects. Issue # 63 (April 2003) an
electronic journal at www.eserver.org/bs/63/
“The Empire Strikes Iraq” (with Max Fraad-Wolff). Guest Column in Foreign Policy Forum (April 19,
2003) an electronic forum at www.foreignpolicyforum.com.
“The Diversity of Class Analyses: A Critique of Erik Olin Wright and Beyond.” (With Stephen
Resnick). Critical Sociology 29:1 (April 2003), 7-28.
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“Marksizm ve Demokrasi” (Translated into Turkish by Cem Kamozut). In Praksis 10 (2003) pp. 123134.
“The Critique of Economic Policy.” In post-autistic economics review. No. 22 (November 24, 2003) an
electronic journal at www.paecon.net.
“Exploitation, Consumption, and the Uniqueness of U.S. Capitalism.” (With Stephen Resnick)
Historical Materialism 11:4 (2003), pp. 209-226.
“The ‘Efficiency’ Illusion” in Edward Fulbrook, Editor, Student’s Guide to What’s Wrong With
Economics, London and New York: Anthem Press, 2004, pp. 169-175.
“Marxism, Class Analysis, and the USSR: a Y2K Perspective,” in M.S. Prelinger and J. Schalit, Editors.
Collective Action: A Bad Subjects Anthology. London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2004, pp.
49-54.
“ideologische Staatsapparate/repressiver Staatsapparat” in Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Editor. HistorischKritisches Worterbuch des Marxismus, Volume 6/1. Hamburg: Argument Verlag,
2004, pp. 761-772.
“Boom or Bust in Washington: Red, White and Broke” (With Max Fraad-Wolff). Red Pepper (London),
No. 125 (November 2004), pp. 24-25.
“Dialectics and Class in Marxian Economics: David Harvey and Beyond” (With S. Resnick). New
School Economic Review (an electronic journal at www.newschool.edu/gf/nser), 1:1 (Fall
2004), pp. 91-114.
“The Issue in Iraq is Imperialism.” Review of Political Economy No. 3 (2004), pp. 95-103. [This is a
Chinese theoretical journal; the translator of this article was Ning Guang Jie]
“East and West: Why Focus on Class?” Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences No. 2 (January
2005), pp. 221-240. Published in Calcutta, India.
“Economia e fondamenatalismo nelle elezioni statunitensi.” Critica Marxista 2005: No. 1 (JanuaryFebruary), pp. 20-26 (translated by Roberto Ciccarelli).
“Ideological State Apparatuses, Consumerism, and U.S. Capitalism: Lessons for the Left.” Rethinking
Marxism 17:2 (April 2005), pp. 223-236.
“The Categories of Class Analysis and the Soviet Experience” (with S. Resnick). Rethinking Marxism
17:4 (October 2005), pp. 559- 566.
“Okonomisches Fundament und fundamentalistische Religion.” Das Argument: Zeitschrift fur
Philosophie and Sozialwissenschaften (Berlin) Volume 262 (Issue Number 4, 2005), pp. 461468.
“Anti-Slavery and Anti-Capitalism.” In Logos: a Journal of Modern Society and Culture (Winter,
2006), an online journal at http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_5.1/wolff.htm.
“Class and Economics.” Dollars and Sense (May/June 2006)
“Response to Julian Markels.” Rethinking Marxism 18:3 (July 2006), 449-452.
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[Spring, 2006]
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