Paul Cockshott
William Paul Cockshott (born March 16, 1952 ) is a Scottish computer scientist and professor at the University of Glasgow .
education
Cockshott received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Manchester University in 1974 , his Master of Science in Computer Science from Heriot Watt University in 1976 and his PhD in Computer Science from Edinburgh University in 1982 .
Career
He has made contributions in the areas of image compression , 3D television , parallel compilers and diagnostic imaging , but became known to a wider audience through his suggestions in the interdisciplinary field of economic accounting in socialism , especially as a co-author with the economist Allin Cottrell des Book Towards a New Socialism , in which they advocate the use of cybernetics for efficient and democratic planning of a complex socialist economy.
Political opinions
In the 1970s Cockshott was a member of the British and Irish Communist Organization , but he and other members could not accept the organization's opinion on the role of workers in the factory. Cockshott and several other members of the organization resigned and formed a new party, the Communist Organization in the British Isles . During his doctoral studies in Edinburgh in the 1980s, he was recruited by the Communist Party of Great Britain together with the computer science student Muffy Calder .
literature
- Brewster, Len. Review of Towards a New Socialism? by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin F. Cottrell. The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 7, No. 1 (Spring 2004): 65-77. (as download here: https://cdn.mises.org/qjae7_1_6.pdf%7Chttps://cdn.mises.org/qjae7_1_6.pdf ).
- Cockshott, P. (1990). Ps-Algol Implementations: Applications in Persistent Object Oriented Programming , Ellis Horwood Ltd. ISBN 978-0745808277
- Cockshott, P. (1990). A Compiler Writer's Toolbox: Interactive Compilers for PCs With Turbo Pascal , Ellis Horwood Ltd. ISBN 978-0131737907
- Cockshott, P., Cottrell, A. (1993). Towards a New Socialism , Spokesman. ISBN 978-0851245454 or as a download here: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf .
- Cockshott, P., Renfrew K. (2004). SIMD Programming Manual for Linux and Windows , Springer. ISBN 978-1852337940
- Cockshott, P. (2010). Transition to 21st Century Socialism in the European Union , Lulu. ISBN 978-1445715070
- Cockshott, P. (2011). Glasgow Pascal Compiler with vector extensions , Lulu. ISBN 978-1447761563
- Cockshott, P., Zachriah, D. (2012). Arguments for Socialism , Lulu. ISBN 978-1471658945
- Cockshott, P., Cottrell, A., Michaelson, G., Wright, I., Yakovenko, V. (2012). Classical Econophysics , Routledge. ISBN 978-0415696463
- Cockshott, P., Mackenzie, L., Michaelson, G. (2015). Computation and its Limits , Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198729129
- Cockshott, P. (2020). How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day , Monthly Review Press . ISBN 978-1-58367-777-3
Videos
- "Paul Cockshott - Towards a new Socialism (1/3)" . Video produced by Oliver Ressler about Paul Cockshott and his planning economic system. Transcription from a video by O. Ressler, recorded in Glasgow, GB, 25 min., 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ CV
- ↑ Allin Cottrell & W. Paul Cockshott, Towards a new socialism (Nottingham, England: Spokesman, 1993). Retrieved on: March 11, 2020.
- ^ A b What is the Communist Organization in the British Isles? in Proletarian , No. 1, c. 1974.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cockshott, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cockshott, William Paul (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish computer scientist, Marxist, associate professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1952 |