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| Born | Richard David Wolff April 1, 1942[1] |
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| Spouse | Harriet Fraad[7] |
| Children | 2 |
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| School or tradition | Marxian economics |
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| Website | www |
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Richard David Wolff (born April 1, 1942) is an American Marxian economist known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs of the New School. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Utah, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum in New York City.
In 1988, Wolff co-founded the journal Rethinking Marxism. In 2010 he published Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It, also released on DVD. In 2012 he released three new books: Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism, with David Barsamian (San Francisco: City Lights Books), Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, with Stephen Resnick, and Democracy at Work (Chicago: Haymarket Books). In 2019 he released his book Understanding Marxism.[8]
Wolff hosts the weekly 30-minute-long program, Economic Update, which is produced by the non-profit Democracy at Work, which he co-founded. Economic Update is on YouTube, FreeSpeech TV, WBAI-FM in New York City (Pacifica Radio), CUNY TV (WNYE-DT3), and available as a podcast. Wolff is featured regularly in television, print, and internet media. The New York Times Magazine has named him "America's most prominent Marxist economist".[9] Wolff lives in Manhattan with his wife and frequent collaborator, Harriet Fraad, a practicing psychotherapist.
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CVwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Crisis and Openings: Introduction to Marxism (2012) on YouTube
- ^ Extended interview with prof. Wolff on how Marxism influences his work Archived October 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Democracy Now!, March 25, 2013
- ^ "Prof. Wolff at the Rosa Luxemburg Conference Opening Night, 08/21/15 | Professor Richard D. Wolff". Archived from the original on October 27, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
- ^ a b Wolff, Richard D. Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy Archived December 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, University of Chicago Press, July 15, 1989, ISBN 978-0226710235
- ^ "On Moyers & Company" Archived March 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine by Richard D. Wolff, February 22, 2013
- ^ "Richard Wolff – Guests". Archived from the original on April 25, 2019. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
- ^ Rampell, Ed (May 22, 2019). "Understanding "Wolff-ism": Prof. Richard Wolff's Take on Karl Marx in New Text". Hollywood Progressive. Archived from the original on June 4, 2019. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
- ^ Davidson, Adam (February 5, 2012). "It Is Safe to Resume Ignoring the Prophets of Doom ... Right?". The New York Times Magazine. Archived from the original on January 3, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.