Stephen Resnick

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Stephen Alvin Resnick (* October 24, 1938 , † January 2, 2013 ) was a supporter of the so-called heterodox economy . His work, mostly written together with Richard D. Wolff , was devoted to topics of Marxist economic theory , methodology and class analysis. His approach is post-Marxist and shaped by Louis Althusser's point of view .

biography

Resnick received his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960 and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964 . His dissertation dealt with econometric analyzes of the European market. His early work at Yale University was accompanied by Stephen Hymer and related to topics of economic development and international political economy .

After a brief employment at the City College of New York (1971-1973) Resnick began in 1973 to teach economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . He worked with Richard D. Wolff . Since then, they have published a variety of articles. In doing so, they developed a nondeterministic approach to class analysis. Subject areas included foreign trade , the economy , the Soviet Union and the comparison of Marxist and non-Marxist concepts.

Resnick and Wolff took Louis Althusser's and Étienne Balibar's Reading Capital as their starting point and documented a very astute analysis of Karl Marx 's capital in their influential work Knowledge and Class .

In 1989 Resnick founded Rethinking Marxism , an academic journal devoted to the advancement of Marxist economic theory, with colleagues and students . Until 1994 he was a member of the board of directors, then a member of the advisory board . Resnick continued to teach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst after his retirement . He received several awards for university teaching.

Resnick died of leukemia on January 2, 2013.

See also

Publications (selection)

  • with Richard D. Wolff: Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1987.
  • with Richard D. Wolff: Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1987.
  • with JK Gibson-Graham, Richard D. Wolff: Class and Its Others Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis 2000.
  • with JK Gibson-Graham, Richard D. Wolff: Re / Presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Marxism Duke University Press, Durham NC. 2001.
  • with Richard D. Wolff: Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR Routledge, NY. 2002.
  • with Richard D. Wolff: New Departures in Marxian Theory (Economics as Social Theory) Routledge, NY. 2006.
  • with Richard D. Wolff: Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian The MIT Press, 2012.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeffrey Okerman: UMass economics professor Stephen Resnick dies of Leukemia at age 74 . In: The Daily Collegian , January 22, 2013. Retrieved February 6, 2013. 
  2. ↑ Ceren Ozselcuk: Post-Marxism After Althusser: A Critique of the Alternatives . In: University of Massachusetts Amherst (Ed.): Dissertation . 2009. Accessed November 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ Stephen A. Resnick: Resnick CV . Retrieved October 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ Stephen Resnick, professor of economics at UMass-Amherst, dies at age 74 . masslive.com. November 1, 2011. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Resnick, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Resnick, Stephen Alvin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1938
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2013