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DAVID M. KOTZ Curriculum Vitae DAVID M. KOTZ Curriculum Vitae September 2020 Position: Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Distinguished Professor, School of Economics, and Co-Director of the Department of Political Economy, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Telephone (413) 545-0739 Fax (413) 545-2921 Email Address [email protected] Personal Website http://blogs.umass.edu/dmkotz/ Education Institution Degree Year Awarded University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. in Economics 1975 Yale University M.A. in Economics 1966 Harvard College B.A. in Physics 1965 Positions Held September 1978 to Present: Faculty (Assistant, Associate, full Professor, then, as of September 1, 2016, Professor Emeritus), Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. September 2010 to present: Distinguished Professor, School of Economics, and Co-Director of the Department of Political Economy, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China. September 1994 to August 2013: Graduate Program Director, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. January to June, 1984: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA. October 1977 to September 1978: Visiting Staff Economist, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C. September 1974 to August 1978: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, American University, Washington, D.C. Memberships and Affiliations Vice-President, World Association for Political Economy. Member, Union for Radical Political Economics. Research Associate, Asian Political Economy Program of the Political Economy Research Institute, Amherst, MA Staff Economist, Center for Popular Economics, Amherst, MA. 2 Curriculum Vitae of David M. Kotz, September 2020 Books and Monographs The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. Paperback edition, 2017. Korean language edition: Narumbooks, 2018; Chinese language edition: Renmin University Press, forthcoming 2020; Arabic language edition: Roueya Publishing, forthcoming 2020. Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the Twenty-First Century, edited volume with Terrence McDonough and Michael Reich, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia, coauthored with Fred Weir, London and New York: Routledge, 2007. A revised and updated version of Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System, 1997. Turkish language edition: Kalkedon Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2012. Russian language edition: URSS Press, Moscow, 2013. Chinese language edition: Renmin University Press, Beijing, 2014; illustrated edition, 2016. Malayalam language edition: Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (Kerala Science Literary Association), Kerala, India, 2019. Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System, coauthored with Fred Weir, London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Japanese language edition: Shin-Hyoron, Tokyo, 2000. Chinese language edition: Renmin University Press, Beijing, 2002; reissued edition 2008. Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis, edited volume with coeditors Terrence McDonough and Michael Reich, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Bank Influence over the Merger Activity of Large Manufacturing Companies, Washington, D.C.: Public Interest Economics Foundation, 1982. Bank Control of Large Corporations in the United States, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Paperback edition: 1980. Japanese language edition: Bunshindo Ltd., Tokyo, 1982. Russian language edition: Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1983. Articles and Book Chapters “Social Structures of Accumulation,” with Terrence McDonough, in Handbook on Alternative Theories of Political Economy, edited by David Primrose, Frank Stilwell, and Tim Thornton, Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2021. “Stable jobs or iPhones? The Dilemma of Innovation in Socialism,” with Mihnea Tudoreanu, Review of Radical Political Economics, forthcoming 2020. “Reading Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Thomas Piketty and Political Economy,” with Terrence McDonough and Cian McMahon, Revue de la Régulation (France), forthcoming 2020. “Economic Crisis, Authoritarian Right-Wing Nationalism, and Transformation of the State,” Questions of Political Economy (Moscow), forthcoming 2020. “Stagnation and Social Structures of Accumulation,” in The Handbook of Economic Stagnation, updated version of “Stagnation and Institutional Structures” (below), by Flavia Dantas and L. Randall Wray (eds.), Elssevier, forthcoming 2020. “The Impact of State-Owned Enterprises on China’s Economic Growth,” with Hao Qi, Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 52 no. 1, spring 2020, 96-114.. “The Rate of Profit, Aggregate Demand, and the Long Economic Expansion in the United States since 2009,” Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 54 no. 4, December 2019, 525- 535. 3 Curriculum Vitae of David M. Kotz, September 2020 “Stagnation and Institutional Structures,” coauthored with Deepankar Basu, Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 51 no. 1, 2019, 5-30. “End of the Neoliberal Era? Crisis and Restructuring in American Capitalism,” New Left Review, No. 113, September-October 2018, 29-55. “Socialist Future in Light of Socialist Past and Capitalist Present,” in The Future of (Post)Socialism: Eastern European Perspectives, by John Frederick Bailyn, Dijana Jelaca, and Daniejela Lugaric (eds.), State University of New York Press, 2018, 51-70. “Neoliberalism, Inequality, and Capital Accumulation,” in The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism, by Damien Cahill, Melinda Cooper, Marijn Konings, and David Primrose (eds.), SAGE Publications Ltd., 2018, 427-445. “Social Structure of Accumulation Theory, Marxist Theory, and System Transformation,” Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 49 no. 4, Winter 2017, 534-542; and in Problems in Political Economy (in Russian), 2018 No. 2, 55-65. “One Hundred Years after the Russian Revolution: Looking Back and Looking Forward,” International Critical Thought vol. 7 No. 3, 2017, 289-296. “The Specter of a Right-Wing Nationalist Regime in the United States,” Jacobin, May 30, 2017, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/donald-trump-neoliberalism-right-wing- nationalism “Economic Crisis, Reindustrialization, and the Economic Role of the State,” in Economic Crisis and Industrial Policies: Policy Options for a Return to Growth in Russia, by Rudolf Traub-Merz(ed.), Moscow: Rosspen, 2016, 126-134. “Roots of the Current Economic Crisis: Capitalism, Forms of Capitalism, Policies, and Contingent Events,” in The Great Financial Meltdown of 2008: Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy-created?, by Turan Subasat (ed), Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA USA: Edward Elgar, 2016, 18-34. “An Assessment of the Mixed Ownership Form of Enterprise,” Studies on Marxism (in Chinese), No. 2, 2015, 138-142. “Capitalism and Forms of Capitalism: Levels of Abstraction in Economic Crisis Theory,” Review of Radical Political Economics vol. 47 no. 4, winter 2015, 541-549. “Russia and the Global Capitalist Crisis,” in The Global Capitalist Crisis and its Aftermath, by Berch Bergeroglu (ed.), Ashgate, 2014, 191-209. “Can China’s Rise Continue?,” China Policy Review (in Chinese), November 2013, 101-103. “The Current Economic Crisis in the U.S.: A Crisis of Over-Investment,” Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 45 no. 3, Summer 2013, 284-294. "Why Did Transition Happen?," in Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition, by Paul Hare and Gerard Turley (eds), Routledge, 2013, 108-115. "Social Structures of Accumulation, the Rate of Profit, and Economic Crises," in Capitalism on Trial: Explorations in the Tradition of Thomas E. Weisskopf, by Robert Pollin and Jeannette Wicks-Lim (eds), Edward Elgar, 2013, 335-349. "Changes in the Postwar Global Economy and the Roots of the Financial Crisis," in The Handbook of the Political Economy of Financial Crises, by Gerald Epstein and Martin H. Wolfson (eds), Oxford University Press, 2013, 395-410. "The Current Financial and Economic Crisis and the Prospects for the Socialist Movement," International Critical Thought, vol. 1 no. 3, September 2011, 257-266. Published in Chinese in Hongqi Wengao, volume 4, 2013. "The Demise of the Soviet Union and the International Socialist Movement Today," in Historical Reflection after 20 Years following the Soviet Union's Collapse, by Li Shenming (ed.), Beijing: Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2011, 538-546. "Over-Investment and the Economic Crisis of 2008," World Review of Political Economy, vol. 2 no. 1, spring 2011, 5-25. 4 Curriculum Vitae of David M. Kotz, September 2020 "The Dependence of China's Economic Growth on Exports and Investment," with Andong Zhu, Review of Radical Political Economics Special Issue on "China and Global Capital Accumulation," vol. 43 no. 1, winter 2011, 9-32. "Financialization and Neoliberalism," in Relations of Global Power: Neoliberal Order and Disorder, by Gary Teeple and Stephen McBride (eds), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, 1-18. Published in Hungarian in Fordulat, Winter 2008/Spring 2009, 65-81; and in Chinese in Foreign Theoretical Trends, No. 11, 2011, 5-14. "The Final Conflict: What Can Cause a System-Threatening Crisis of Capitalism?," Science and Society, vol. 74 no. 3, July 2010, 362-279. Published in Russian in Alternatives No. 3, Summer 2010; in Portuguese on website http://resistir.info,
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