James L. Payne

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James L. Payne
Born	(1939-06-17) June 17, 1939 (age 85)
Nationality	American
Academic career
Field	political science, political philosophy, political economy
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley, Oberlin College

James L. Payne (born 1939) is an American social scientist writing on political science, economics, social science methodology, foreign policy, and political philosophy. After teaching political science at the university level for 20 years, he left academia to conduct research and writing as an independent scholar.^[1]