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Robin Hahnel
Robin Hahnel is a radical economist and political activist. He is Professor Emeritus at American University in Washington, D.C. where he taught in the Economics Department from 1976 – 2008. He is currently a visiting professor in economics at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where he resides with his family. His work in economic theory is informed by the work of Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Polanyi, Pierro Straffa, Joan Robinson, and Amartya Sen among others. He is best known as co-creator, along with Michael Albert, of a radical alternative to capitalism known as participatory economics, (or parecon for short). His more recent work is focused on economic justice and democracy, and the global financial and ecological crisis. Politically he considers himself a proud product of the New Left and is sympathetic to libertarian socialism. He has been active in many social movements and organizations over forty years, beginning with the Harvard and MIT SDS chapters and the Boston area anti-Vietnam war movement in the 1960s.
This is a reproduction of Albert & Hahnel’s 1979 essay from the book Between Labor and Capital, a collection of essays that talks about the elusive third class, mostly centered around The Professional Managerial Class by Barbara and John Ehrenreich
All of the grand neoliberal transformations of the international economy over the past three decades are about increasing international protection for intellectual property rights and making it easier for financial capital and productive facilities to relocate anywhere they choose
What kind of “next system” would support the economics of sustainable and equitable cooperation?
More than 13 million Americans voted for a candidate to be their President who labelled himself a democratic socialist and called for a political revolution
In this interview, radical economist Robin Hahnel argues that ecological sustainability is perfectly compatible with increases in economic well-being
Brexit is a blow to the powers that be in Brussels, and adds wind to the sails of progressive forces within the EU as well as reactionary forces, no matter what political strategy progressive forces opt for
‘After I wrote the first edition of The ABCs of Political Economy in 2002 came the “rush” of vindication: I warned about the dangerous…
Critics and defenders have long argued over whether or not capitalism is unfair
Denouncing cap and trade and carbon markets as “false solutions” has become ubiquitous divide in the climate justice movement