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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.
For the First Socialist Economics Forum, Carora Venezuela, September 4, 2008 Where is socialism being reinvented at the dawn of the…
Robin Hahnel spoke at UT-Austin to scholars, students, and activists. He discusses alternatives to corporate capitalism, different economic visions, and Venezuela’s social…
In the case of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution, the mainstream media and politicians in the United States have elevated…
This interview was conducted via email in May 2006 by Marla Renn of the Vancouver Participatory Economics Collective. Robin Hahnel has taught…
1. Can you tell Znet, please, what your book, Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation (Routledge 2005) is about? What…
For the Political Economy Seminar at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on March 8, 2005 Social Democracy: Giving Credit Where Credit…
For the National Conference on Organized Resistance, held in Washington DC, February 4-6, 2005, by Robin Hahnel, American University and Southern Maryland…
(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, The ABCs of Political Economy, is about? What is it trying to…
According to Samuel Bowles, A Future for Socialism by John Roemer is “measured, highly accessible, and most of all compelling.” Spurred by…