John Roemer

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John Ernest Roemer (born February 1, 1945 in Washington, DC ) is an American economist and political scientist.

Live and act

John Roemer was born as the son of Milton I and Ruth J. Roemer, b. Rosenbaum was born and graduated in mathematics at Harvard University in 1966 with the AB summa cum laude from. After teaching mathematics at Lowell High School and Pelton Jr High School in San Francisco from 1969 to 1974 , he received his Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley. PhD in economics . He was then Assistant Professor from 1974 to 1978, Associate Professor from 1978 to 1981 and Full Professor of Economics from 1981 to 2000 at the University of California, Davis . Since 2000 he has been Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University . Visiting professorships took him to Yale University (1979–1980), University of California, Los Angeles (1987), Harvard University (1994), Cergy-Pontoise University (1995), New York University (1999), École polytechnique (2004), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2005) and University of Paris I (2006).

Roemer's research is in the field of political economy , in particular on distributive justice and political philosophy , economic philosophy , equal opportunities , socialism theory and Marxist economic theory as well as collective property and competitive socialism . Along with Gerald A. Cohen and Jon Elster, he is one of the 'founding fathers' of Analytical Marxism , which existed primarily in the 1980s and 1990s. In this context, Roemer's concern was to reconstruct Marx's economic theory in the vocabulary of neoclassical economic theory.

In 1968 he married Carla Natasha Muldavin, with whom he has two children.

Awards

Memberships

Works

In addition to many articles in scientific journals, Roemer published:

Books
  • US-Japanese Competition in International Markets. A Study of the Trade-Investment Cycle in Modern Capitalism (= Research series. Institute of International Studies. University of California, Berkeley, Volume 22). Institute of International Studies, Berkeley 1975, ISBN 0-87725-122-3 , also dissertation, University of California, Berkeley 1974.
  • Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u. a.] 1981, ISBN 0-521-23047-0 .
  • A General Theory of Exploitation and Class. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 1982, ISBN 0-674-34440-5 .
  • Value, Exploitation, and Class (= Fundamentals of pure and applied economics, Volume 4). Harwood Academic Publishers, Chur [u. a.] 1986, ISBN 3-7186-0278-4 .
  • Free to Lose. An Introduction to Marxist Economic Philosophy. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1988, ISBN 0-674-31875-7 .
  • Egalitarian Perspectives. Essays in Philosophical Economics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u. a.] 1994, ISBN 0-521-45066-7 .
  • A Future for Socialism. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1994, ISBN 0-674-33945-2 .
  • Theories of Distributive Justice. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 1996, ISBN 0-674-87919-8 .
  • Equality of Opportunity. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 1998, ISBN 0-674-25991-2 .
  • Political Competition. Theory and Applications. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 2001, ISBN 0-674-00488-4 .
  • Democracy, Education and Equality (= Econometric Society monographs, Volume 40). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u. a.] 2006, ISBN 0-521-84665-X .
  • with Woojin Lee and Karine van der Straeten: Racism, xenophobia, and distribution. Multi-issue politics in advanced democracies. Russell Sage Foundation [u. a.], New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-674-02495-3 .
Editing
  • Analytical Marxism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u. a.] 1986, ISBN 0-521-30025-8 .
  • with Jon Elster : Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u. a.] 1991, ISBN 0-521-39274-8 .
  • with David Copp and Jean Hampton: The Idea of ​​Democracy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u. a.] 1993, ISBN 0-521-43254-5 .
  • with Pranab K. Bardhan: Market Socialism: The Current Debate. Oxford University Press, New York [u. a.] 1993, ISBN 0-19-508049-1 .
  • Foundations of Analytical Marxism (= The international library of critical writings in economics, Volume 36). 2 volumes, Edward Elgar Publishers, Aldershot, Hants [u. a.] 1994, ISBN 1-85278-784-8 .
  • with Erik O. Wright : Equal Shares. Making Market Socialism Work (= The real Utopias project, Volume 2). Verso, London 1996, ISBN 1-85984-933-4 .
  • Property relations, incentives, and welfare (= IEA conference volume, volume 115). Macmillan [u. a.], Basingstoke, Hampshire [u. a.] 1997, ISBN 0-333-62307-X .
  • with Kotaro Suzumura: Intergenerational equity and sustainability (= IEA conference volume, Volume 143). Palgrave, Basingstoke, Hampshire [u. a.] 2007, ISBN 0-230-00786-4 .
Article (selection)
  • Origins of Exploitation and Class: Value Theory of Pre-Capitalist Economy. In: Econometrica. Volume 50, No. 1, January 1982, pp. 163-192.
  • Exploitation, Alternatives and Socialism. In: Economic Journal. Volume 92, No. 365, March 1982, pp. 87-107.
  • Rationalizing Revolutionary Ideology. In: Econometrica. Volume 53, No. 1, January 1985, pp. 85-108.
  • Axiomatic bargaining theory on economic environments. In: Journal of Economic Theory. Volume 45, No. 1, June 1988, pp. 1-31.
  • with Herve Moulin: Public Ownership of the External World and Private Ownership of Self. In: Journal of Political Economy. Volume 97, No. 2, April 1989, pp. 347-367.
  • A Pragmatic Theory of Responsibility for the Egalitarian Planner. In: Philosophy and Public Affairs. Volume 22, 1993, pp. 146-166.
  • with Joaquim Silvestre: The Proportional Solution for Economies with Both Private and Public Ownership. In: Journal of Economic Theory. Vol. 59, No. 2, April, 1993, pp. 426-444.
  • On the relationship between economic development and political democracy. In: Review of Economic Design. Volume 1, No. 1, December 1994, pp. 15-39.
  • The Strategic Role of Party Ideology When Voters are Uncertain About How the Economy Works Export. In: The American Political Science Review. Volume 88, No. 2, 1994, pp. 327-335.
  • The Democratic Political Economy of Progressive Income Taxation. In: Econometrica. Volume 67, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 1-20.

literature

  • Who's Who in America 2008. Volume 2, New Providence 2007, ISSN  0083-9396 , p. 3962
  • Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics . 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , p. 946
  • The International Who's Who 1997-98. 61st edition, Europa Publications Limited, London 1997, ISBN 1-85743-022-0 , p. 1281

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marco Iorio: Analytical Marxism, in: Michael Quante / David P. Schweikard (ed.): Marx Handbook. Life - Works - Work, Stuttgart 2016, p. 349f.
personal data
SURNAME Roemer, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roemer, John Ernest (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC