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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.
It is not uncommon for geniuses to suffer from lack of recognition during their lives only to be canonized as intellectual giants…
>>”Nancy Folbre … said their vision of life was as one long student council meeting.” (Doug Henwood) If Nancy has said…
Recently I was asked to answer some questions about tactical choices facing the movement against corporate sponsored globalization. Unfortunately, people and groups…
Robin Hahnel Just in case anyone thought the IMF and the World Bank had gotten the message in Seattle, Washington, DC and…
First in December in Seattle and then in April in Washington, DC the movement against corporate sponsored globalization spoke truth to power.…
For almost 20 years an accelerating process many of us now call corporate sponsored globalization has been changing the way the…
Robin Hahnel After declining to sign a "better deal" last April, the Clinton administration signed off on conditions for permitting China to…
Almost every day since I bought my plane ticket to Seattle to protest the November 29 through December 3 meetings of the…
Robin Hahnel When real world outcomes differ from the efficient ones predicted by mainstream models in text books, the memories of pro-capitalists…