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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.
Taylan Tosun: (1) Why are the centers of international financial power so afraid of even moderate inflation? Why are almost all the…
Part one of this series can be found here. Replacing the economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable cooperation…
Robin Hahnel is Professor of Economics at Portland State University. His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy and he is co-author…
There is a difference between radicals and reformers. Radicals believe we need fundamental “system change” because as long as the system is…
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Just as the European settler economies in North America grew to eclipse the economic power of “Old” Europe during the twentieth century,…
A recent New York Times article reported that rural landowners who had signed leases with gas and oil companies exchanging drilling rights on their property for…
Michael Albert argued in a recent posting on ZNet that “we” are not really 99%. He argued that while this slogan may…