Allin Cottrell
Allin Cottrell (born June 26, 1953 in Scotland ) is Professor of Economics at the US Wake Forest University .
Life
Cottrell made his Bachelor Accounts in Politics , Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at Merton College of Oxford University . He received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh .
In 1983 he moved to the United States and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Elon University before moving to Wake Forest University in 1989 . There Cottrell teaches economics and econometrics . His main research relates to the history of ideas in economics, especially Keynes and Marx , questions of macroeconomics and the theory of economic planning. Cottrell is married with one daughter.
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Together with the computer scientist Paul Cockshott , Cottrell presented in his work “ Alternatives from the computer. For socialist planning and direct democracy ”( Towards a new socialism ), various approaches are proposed as to how a planned economy that is superior to the market economy can be made possible through information technology.
Cottrell is the initiator and one of the main authors responsible for gretl ( Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library), an open source program package for statistical calculations.
Publications
- English original
- Social Classes in Marxist Theory and in Post-war Britain , 1984, ISBN 978-0-7100-9906-8 .
- Towards a New Socialism , 1993, ISBN 978-0-85124-544-7 (pdf; 936 kB)
- German translations
- Alternatives from the calculator. For Socialist Planning and Direct Democracy , 2006, ISBN 978-3-89438-345-9 .
Web links
- Cottrell's homepage at Wake Forest University (English)
- Paul Cockshott, Allin Cottrell: " Socialist planned economy is possible " (PDF file; 1.77 MB, archived version)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cottrell, Allin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scotland |