List of marxian economists
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This is an alphabetical list of notable Marxian economists, that is, experts in the social science of economics that follow and develops Karl Marx
's economic theory.
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
's economic theory.
List of Marxian economists
- Michel AgliettaMichel AgliettaMichel Aglietta is a French economist, currently Professor of Economics at the University of Paris X: Nanterre. Michel Aglietta is a scientific counsellor at CEPII, a member of the University Institute of France, and a consultant to Groupama. An alumnus of the École Polytechnique, from 1998 to...
, 1938- - Jack Amariglio
- Giovanni ArrighiGiovanni ArrighiGiovanni Arrighi was a scholar of political economy and sociology, and as of 1998 a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been translated into over fifteen languages....
, 1937-2009 - Samir AminSamir AminSamir Amin is an Egyptian economist. He currently lives in Dakar, Senegal.- Biography :Samir Amin was born in Cairo, the son of an Egyptian father and a French mother . He spent his childhood and youth in Port Said; there he attended a French High School, leaving in 1947 with a Baccalauréat...
, 1931- - Hans-Georg BackhausHans-Georg BackhausHans-Georg Backhaus is a German economist and philosopher. He is considered one of the most important theorists on the field of Marx's theory of value. He began a long-term cooperation with Helmut Reichelt already from his years of university studies.-Main Work:* Backhaus, Hans-Georg: Dialektik...
, 1929- - Paul A. BaranPaul A. BaranPaul Alexander Baran was an American economist known for his Marxist views. In 1951 Baran was promoted to full professor at Stanford University and Baran was the only tenured Marxist economist in the United States until his death in 1964...
, 1910-1964. - Ricardo Bellofiore
- Charles BettelheimCharles BettelheimCharles Bettelheim was a French economist and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization at the Sorbonne), economic advisor to the governments of several developing countries during the period of decolonization...
, 1913-2006 - Thomas BottomoreThomas BottomoreThomas Burton Bottomore , usually known as Tom Bottomore, was a British Marxist sociologist.Bottomore was Secretary of the International Sociological Association from 1953 to 1959...
, 1920-1992 - Samuel BowlesSamuel Bowles (economist)Samuel Bowles is an American economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught courses on microeconomics and the theory of institutions.- Biography :...
, 1939- - Robert Boyer
- Andras Bródy, 1924-
- Martin BronfenbrennerMartin BronfenbrennerMartin Bronfenbrenner was an internationally renowned economist who published over 250 scholarly papers and five books and served as William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University...
, 1914-1997 - Suzanne de Brunhoff, 1929-
- Henri Denis
- G. Dostaler
- Gérard Duménil
- Henry Douglas Dickinson, 1899-1968
- Maurice DobbMaurice DobbMaurice Herbert Dobb , was a British Marxist economist, and a lecturer 1924-1959 and Reader 1959-1976 at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1948-1976.-Life:...
, 1900-1976 - Jon ElsterJon ElsterJon Elster is a Norwegian social and political theorist who has authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory...
, 1940- - Arghiri EmmanuelArghiri EmmanuelArghiri Emmanuel was an economist who became known in the 1960s and 1970s for his theory of 'unequal exchange'. The theory was an attempt to explain the falling trend in the terms of trade for underdeveloped countries, while criticising the different approaches of Raúl Prebisch, Hans Singer, and...
, 1911-2001 - Duncan K. Foley, 1942-
- Andre Gunder FrankAndre Gunder FrankAndre Gunder Frank was a German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted "dependency theory" after 1970 and "World Systems Theory" after 1984...
, 1929-2005 - Herbert GintisHerbert GintisHerbert Gintis is an American behavioral scientist, educator, and author. He is notable for his foundational views on Altruism, Cooperation, Epistemic Game Theory, Gene-culture coevolution, Efficiency wages, Strong reciprocity, and Human capital theory. Gintis has also written extensively on...
, 1940- - Andrew GlynAndrew GlynAndrew John Glyn, was a United Kingdom-based economist, University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Economics in Corpus Christi College. A Marxist economist, his research interests focussed on issues of unemployment and inequality.He was Associate Editor:...
, 1943-2007 - David M. GordonDavid Gordon (economist born 1944)David M. Gordon was an American economist and Professor of Economics at the Graduate Facultyof the New School for Social Research. He founded the Institute for Labor Education and Research in 1975 and later the inNew York City...
, 1944-1996 - Donald J. Harris
- Makoto ItohMakoto Itohis a Japanese economist and is considered internationally to be one of the most important scholars of Marx's theory of value. He teaches at Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, and is professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo....
, 1936- - Leif JohansenLeif JohansenLeif Johansen was a Norwegian economist who made a substantial contribution to economic science.He was born in Eidsvoll. Throughout his academic career Johansen was employed at the University of Oslo. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters...
, 1930- - Michal KaleckiMichal KaleckiMichał Kalecki was a Polish economist who specialized in macroeconomics of a broadly-defined Keynesian sort...
, 1899-1970 - Leonid KantorovichLeonid KantorovichLeonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources...
, 1912-1986 - Shinzaburo Koshimura
- David LaibmanDavid LaibmanDavid Laibman is Professor of Economics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He received a Ph.D. in Economics in 1973 at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York...
- Oskar LangeOskar LangeOskar Ryszard Lange was a Polish economist and diplomat...
, 1904-1965 - Dominique Lévy
- Alain LipietzAlain LipietzAlain Lipietz is a French engineer, economist and politician, a Member of the European Parliament, and a member of the French Green Party.-Education:...
, 1947- - Adolph LoweAdolph LoweAdolph Lowe born Adolf Löwe was a German sociologist and economist.- Major publications of Adolph Lowe :*Arbeitslosigkeit und Kriminalität, 1914....
, 1893-1995 - Harry MagdoffHarry MagdoffHenry Samuel Magdoff , was a prominent American socialist commentator. He held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later became co-editor of the Marxist publication, Monthly Review.-Early years:A child of poor Russian-Jewish immigrants,...
, 1913-2006 - Ernest MandelErnest MandelErnest Ezra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter , was a revolutionary Marxist theorist.-Life:...
, 1923-1995 - Steven Marglin
- Alfredo Medio
- Ronald L. MeekRonald L. MeekRonald Lindley Meek was a Marxian economist and social scientist known especially for his scholarly studies of classical political economy and the labour theory of value....
, 1917-1978. - Michio MorishimaMichio Morishimawas a Japanese economist, mathematician and econometrician, who was a faculty member at the London School of Economics from 1970-88 as the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics...
, 1923-2004 - Claudio Napoleoni 1924-1988
- Domenico Mario Nuti, 1937-
- Viktor Novozhilov
- Nobuo OkishioNobuo Okishiowas a Japanese Marxian economist and emeritus professor of Kobe University. In 1979, He was elected President of Japan Association of Economics and Econometrics, which is now Japanese Economic Association....
, 1927-2003 - Prabhat PatnaikPrabhat PatnaikPrabhat Patnaik is an Indian Marxist economist and political commentator, who has achieved international acclaim with his incisive analysis of economics and politics. He was teaching at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in...
, 1945- - Michael Piore, 1940-
- Karl PolanyiKarl PolanyiKarl Paul Polanyi was a Hungarian philosopher, political economist and economic anthropologist known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and his book The Great Transformation...
, 1886-1964 - Raúl PrebischRaúl PrebischRaúl Prebisch was an Argentine economist known for his contribution to structuralist economics, in particular the Singer–Prebisch thesis that formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He is sometimes considered to be a neo-Marxist though this label is misleading...
, 1901-1985 - Helmut ReicheltHelmut ReicheltHelmut Reichelt is a German economist and philosopher of the Frankfurt School. Reichelt is one of the main authors of the “Neue Marx-Lektüre” and considered to be one of the most important theorists in the field of Marx's theory of value.He studied economics, sociology and philosophy in Frankfurt...
, 1939- - Stephen ResnickStephen ResnickStephen A. Resnick is a North American heterodox economist. He is well-known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis.- Biography :...
, 1938- - John RoemerJohn RoemerJohn E. Roemer is an American economist and political scientist. He is currently the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was on the economics faculty at the University of California, Davis, and before entering...
- Isaak Illich RubinIsaak Illich RubinIsaak Illich Rubin was a Russian economist and is considered to be the most important theorist of his time on the field of Marx's theory of value. His main work Essays on Marx's Theory of Value was published in 1924. During the course of the Great Purge he was executed in 1937.-Main Works:* Rubin,...
, 1886-1937 - David Ruccio
- Alfredo Saad-FilhoAlfredo Saad-FilhoProfessor Alfredo Saad-Filho BSc, MSc PhD has degrees in Economics from Universidade de Brasília and the University of London , and has taught and researched in universities in Brazil and Mozambique as well as the UK...
, 1964- - Thomas T. SekineThomas T. SekineThomas T. Sekine is a Japanese economist and is considered to be one of the most important theorists on the field of Marx's theory of value. His main work The Dialectic of Capital was published in 1986. He is a scholar of Kozo Uno.-Main Work:...
, 1933- - Francis Seton, 1920-
- Anwar Shaikh (economist)Anwar Shaikh (economist)Anwar M. Shaikh is an American economist, and currently Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty of The New School in New York City. His work in political economy has focused on the economic theory and empirical patterns of developed capitalism. He has written on international trade,...
, 1945- - Piero SraffaPiero SraffaPiero Sraffa was an influential Italian economist whose book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the Neo-Ricardian school of Economics.- Early life :...
, 1898-1983 - Josef SteindlJosef Steindl-Career:He was at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research . But moved to the UK in 1938 to lecture at Oxford University. There he worked with a group of other European exiles from Fascism perhaps most notably Michal Kalecki...
, 1912-1993 - Stanislav Strumilin, 1877-1974
- Paul SweezyPaul SweezyPaul Marlor Sweezy was a Marxist economist, political activist, publisher, and founding editor of the long-running magazine Monthly Review...
, 1910-2004 - Shigeto Tsuru, 1912-
- Kozo UnoKozo Unowas a Japanese economist and is considered to be one of the most important theorists on the field of Marx's theory of value. His main work Principles of Political Economy was published in 1964. Among his scholars are Thomas T. Sekine and Makoto Itoh.-Thought:...
, 1897-1977 - Immanuel WallersteinImmanuel WallersteinImmanuel Maurice Wallerstein is a US sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst...
, 1930- - Thomas Weisskopf
- Richard D. WolffRichard D. WolffRichard D. Wolff is an American economist, well-known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis.- Early and personal life :...
, 1942- - Andrew KlimanAndrew KlimanAndrew Kliman is a professor of economics at Pace University and author of several publications on Marxian economics, including the book Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital”, which defends the Temporal Single System Interpretation of Marx's labor theory against various claims of its inconsistency from...
See also
- Karl MarxKarl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
- Marxian economicsMarxian economicsMarxian economics refers to economic theories on the functioning of capitalism based on the works of Karl Marx. Adherents of Marxian economics, particularly in academia, distinguish it from Marxism as a political ideology and sociological theory, arguing that Marx's approach to understanding the...
- Socialist economicsSocialist economicsSocialist economics are the economic theories and practices of hypothetical and existing socialist economic systems.A socialist economy is based on public ownership or independent cooperative ownership of the means of production, wherein production is carried out to directly produce use-value,...
- CommunismCommunismCommunism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
- SocialismSocialismSocialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...