David Ellerman

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David Patterson Ellerman (born 14 March 1943) is a philosopher and author who works in the fields of economics and political economy, social theory and philosophy, and in mathematics. He has written extensively on workplace democracy based on a modern treatment of the labor theory of property and the theory of inalienable rights as rights based on de facto inalienable capacities.

Education[]

Ellerman was born 14 March 1943.[1] He received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965.[1] He went on to Boston University for his graduate work, receiving an MA in philosophy of science in 1967, an MA in economics in 1968, and a doctorate in mathematics in 1972.[1][2] His PhD thesis was titled Sheaves Of Relational Structures And Ultraproducts, and was advised by Rohit Jivanlal Parikh.[2][3]

Career[]

After his PhD, Ellerman remained teaching at Boston University in the mathematics and then the economic department until 1976.[1] He then taught economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston until 1982, then at Boston College until 1987, and finally at Tufts University until 1990.[1] In 1990, he moved to Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he started a labor consulting firm.[4] From 1992 until 2003, he worked at the World Bank as an economics advisor to the Chief Economist (Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern).[1][4] From 2003 to 2020, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Riverside and since 2020, he is an associate researcher at the University of Ljubljana.[1][4]

Books[]

Ellerman's books include:

  • Putting Jurisprudence Back into Economics: What is Really Wrong in Today's Neoclassical Theory. SpringerNature, 2021. ISBN 9783030760960.
  • Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy. SpringerNature, 2021. ISBN 9783030626761.
  • The Uses of Diversity: Essays in Polycentricity. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. ISBN 1793623732.
  • Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance. University of Michigan Press, 2005. ISBN 0472021761.[5]
  • Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life: Essays in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995. ISBN 0847679322.[6]
  • Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy. Cambridge MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992. ISBN 1557863091.[7]
  • The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm. London: Unwin Hyman Limited (HarperCollins Academic), 1990. ISBN 9780044457435; 2016 reprint ISBN 1138892653.[8]
  • Economics, Accounting, and Property Theory. Lexington MA: Lexington Books, 1982. ISBN 0669055522.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). David Ellerman.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Ellerman, David Patterson (1972). Sheaves Of Relational Structures And Ultraproducts (PhD thesis). Boston University. ProQuest 302640987.
  3. ^ David Ellerman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Ellerman, David (2020-05-15). "About the Author". The Uses of Diversity: Essays in Polycentricity. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-79362-373-7.
  5. ^ Reviews of Helping People Help Themselves:
    • Park, Susan (2009). "Review: Ask the Experts? The World Bank and International Development Lending in the Twenty-First Century". Review of International Political Economy. 16 (2): 329–349. doi:10.1080/09692290902718494. JSTOR 27756161. S2CID 153960296.
    • Nutzinger, Hans G. (2006). "Review". Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft [Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics]. 162 (3): 540–542. JSTOR 40752601.
    • Hillyard, Daniel; Hall, Joshua C. (2007). "David Ellerman: Helping People Help Themselves: From The World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance". Knowledge, Technology & Policy. 20 (3): 203–205. doi:10.1007/s12130-007-9026-4. ISSN 0897-1986. S2CID 108728608.
    • Schuh, G. Edward (December 2008). "Book review". The Journal of Socio-Economics. 37 (6): 2566–2567. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2008.05.006.
  6. ^ Nutzinger, Hans G. (August 1996). "Review of Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life". Kyklos. 49 (3): 472–473. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6435.1996.tb01407.x.
  7. ^ Reviews for Property and Contract in Economics:
    • Lawson, Colin (1993). "Review". The Slavonic and East European Review. 71 (4): 792–793. JSTOR 4211433.
    • Devine, Pat (1993). "Review". Economic Journal. 103 (421): 1560–1561. doi:10.2307/2234490. JSTOR 2234490.
    • Bartlett, Will (May 1994). "Reviews". Economic and Industrial Democracy. 15 (2): 296–298. doi:10.1177/0143831x94152010. S2CID 220850066.
    • Smith, Stephen C. (December 1994). "Property and Contract in Economics". Journal of Comparative Economics. 19 (3): 463–466. doi:10.1006/jcec.1994.1115.
    • Lutz, Mark A. (1995). "Book Reviews". Review of Social Economy. 53 (1): 141–147. doi:10.1080/00346769500000007. JSTOR 29769762.
    • Woltjer, Geert (March 1996). "Book review". European Journal of Law and Economics. 3 (1): 109–112. doi:10.1007/bf00149085. S2CID 195243866.
  8. ^ Reviews for The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm:
  9. ^ Bell, Philip W.; Kirkland, William Alexander (1983). "Review". Accounting Review. 58 (4): 846–847. JSTOR 247085.

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