David Gordon (economist)

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David Gordon
Born	(1944-05-04)May 4, 1944 Washington, D.C.
Died	March 16, 1996(1996-03-16) (aged 51)[1]
Nationality	American
Academic career
Field	Macroeconomics, political economy, labor economics
Institution	Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
School or tradition	Neo-Marxian economics
Alma mater	Harvard University
Influences	Karl Marx, Samuel Bowles

David M. Gordon (May 4, 1944 – March 16, 1996) was an American economist and Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. He founded the Institute for Labor Education and Research in 1975 and later the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis in New York City. Gordon worked to disseminate progressive economic ideas to the general public and to contribute to the development of a left-political movement in the United States. Gordon's work dealt mainly with discrimination and labor market segmentation. He coined the term "social structure of accumulation", which gave rise to an extensive body of work on the impact of political, social and economic institutions on long-term investment and growth.