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Ian J. Seda-Irizarry Department of John Jay College, The City University of New York 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019 Office: 09.63.10 New Building 212-393-6425, [email protected] https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/ian-j-seda-irizarry Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AUjcNFYAAAAJ&hl=en Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ian_Seda-Irizarry

Positions held

Assistant Professor, John Jay College (CUNY), New York, NY: Fall 2013- present Visiting Assistant Professor, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA: Fall 2012-Spring 2013 Visiting Instructor, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey: Summers, 2012- 2014 Instructor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY: 2011- 2012 Teaching Assistant and Instructor UMass, Amherst, MA: Fall 2006-2011 Teaching Assistant, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR: 2003- 2005

Education

Ph.D. Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2013 M.A. Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2010 M.A. (all but thesis) Economics, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (2002-2005) B.S. School of Business, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (1997-2002)

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Dhondt, G.L., Dufour M., and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2019). Keeping Class in the Conversation in the Age of the 1%, American Review of Political Economy, 13 (1).

Dhondt, G.L., Dufour M., and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2018). Behind the Masks of Total Choice: Teaching Alienation in the Age of Inequality, International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 9 (1/2): 36-49.

1 Bhattacharya, R. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2017). La Feudalización del Capital en la Era de la Financialización,” Ámbito de Encuentros, 10 (1), 7-29.

Dufour, M. and Seda-Irizarry, I. (2017). The Use of Dichotomies in Introductory Economics, Review of Keynesian Economics, 5 (4): 519-532.

Dhondt, G.L., Dufour M., Hamilton, J. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2017). Developing Heterodox Economics Curriculum: The case of John Jay College, American Review of Political Economy, 11 (2): 126-136.

Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2015). Una Fiera de la Vida: Pablo Rieznik (1949-2015),” Hic Rhodus: Crisis capitalistas, polémica y controversia, 5 (9): 69-71.

Bhattacharya, R. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2015). Re-centering Class in Critical Theory: A Tribute to Stephen A. Resnick (1938-2013), Review of Radical Political Economics, 27 (4): 669-678.

Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2013). Revisiting Resnick and Wolff’s Reading of Overdetermination, Rethinking , 25 (3): 305-310.

Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2011). Crisis, Class, and Cooperatives: Some comments on the USW- Mondragón alliance, , 23 (3): 374-383.

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

Quiñones, A. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2019). The Current Political Economy of Puerto Rico, in Burchardt et al (eds), (Post-) colonial archipelagos –Comparing the legacies of Spanish colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, forthcoming 2019.

Bhattacharya, R. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2017). Problematizing the Global Economy: Financialization and the ‘Feudalization’ of Capital, in Burczak et al (eds), Marxism without Guarantees: Economics, Knowledge, and Class, Routledge, New York: 329-345. This is translated and shorter version of Bhattacharya, R. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2017). La Feudalización del Capital en la Era de la Financialización,” Ámbito de Encuentros, 10 (1), 7-29.

Bhattacharya, R. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2017). Primitive Accumulation”, in Brenner et al (eds), Routledge Handbook of , Routledge, New York: 144- 154.

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Orhangazi, Ö. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2010). The Role of Finance in the Latest Capitalist Crisis” in Kawano et all eds., Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and Planet. Center for Popular Economics, Massachusetts: 65-74.

Scholarly Articles Published in Non-refereed Journal

Quiñones, A. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2016). Wealth Extraction, Governmental Servitude, and Social Disintegration in Colonial Puerto Rico, New , 15 (4): 91-98.

Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2011). Kapitalizm Sonrası Düşe Bir Katkı: Katılımcı Ekonomi, Birikim, No 268-269: 45-48, August-September.

Peer Reviewed Book Reviews

Review of “The Marxism of Manuel Sacristán: From Communism to the New Social Movements,” by Renzo Llorente (editor), Capital and Class, 2016, 40 (1): 212-214.

Review of “America Beyond ”, by Gar Alperovitz, Capital and Class, 2013, 37 (2): 325-328.

Review of “Global Economic Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance” by David McNally, Ambito de Encuentros, 2013, 6 (1).

Review of “Dirigentes y Dirigidos: para leer los Cuadernos de la cárcel de Antonio Gramsci” by Manuel S. Almeida, Rethinking Marxism, March 2012, 24 (2): 324-326.

Review of “Un resumen completo de El Capital de Marx” by Diego Guerrero, Cuadernos de Economía, 2011, 30: 275-280.

Review of “Reclaiming Marx’s Capital” by Andrew Kliman, Critique of Political Economy, 2011, 1 (1): 249-253.

Review of “Capitalism Hits the Fan” by Richard D. Wolff , Cuadernos de Economía, 2010 Vol. 29, 1st semester, No 52, 237-243.

Review of “New Departures in Marxian Theory” by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, Review of Radical Political Economics, December 2009, 41 (4): 581-585.

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Translations

“El Redescubrimiento de Marx en la Crisis Capitalista,” De Regreso a Marx: Nuevas Lecturas y Vigencia en el Mundo Actual, Buenos Aires: Octubre 2015. Originally published as Wolff, R. 2013. In Capitalist Crisis, Rediscovering Marx, Marx for Today, edited by M. Musto, 145-161, Routledge.

Other Papers

Quiñones, A. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2016). A Junta for Puerto Rico, Working Paper Series 2016. http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/contentgroups/economics/SedaAJu ntaforPuertoRico.pdf

Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2012). Piracy and exploitation in the Music Recording Industry: A political economy approach.

Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2011). The Handyman Economist: How Economists Save the World (and capitalism).

Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2007). Un Vistazo Histórico y Metodológico al Problema de la Transformación de Valores a Precios de Producción, Serie Notas de Clase, Unidad de Investigaciones Económicas; April. http://economia.uprrp.edu/notas%20de%20clase%2012.pdf

Work in Progress

Quiñones, A. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. (2019). The Self-Inflicted Dimensions of Puerto Rico’s Crisis, submitted, Latin American Perspectives. https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/contentgroups/economics/02- Ian_1.pdf

Seda-Irizarry, I.J. Music in the Marxist Tradition: A Critical Survey, submitted, Rethinking Marxism.

Quiñones, A. and Seda-Irizarry, I.J. Beyond Colonialism: Rent-Seeking and the State in Puerto Rico, manuscript being prepared for the Review of Radical Political Economics.

Seda-Irizarry, I.J. 150 years of Das Kapital: Fetichism, Autonomization, and Feudalization

4 in the Age of Financialization, manuscripts being prepared for Cambridge Journal of Economics.

Seda-Irizarry, I.J. Discourses of theft: Piracy and Exploitation in the Music Recording Industry.

Articles in Non-scholarly Print/Popular Articles

2019 “Heterodox Economics at John Jay College,” www.rdwolff.com, June 6.

2017 “Puerto Rico’s not so natural disaster” (with Heriberto Martínez), Jacobin, October 24. https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/puerto-rico-natural-disaster- hurricane-maria

2017 “150 años de El Capital y la economía de Puerto Rico,” Revista Puertorriqueña de Economía Política, September, 1. https://economiapoliticapr.org

2016 “Urge revisar incentivos económicos,” Revista Puertorriqueña de Economía Política, December 13. Available at https://economiapoliticapr.org

2016 “Politics, Primaries, and Crisis in Puerto Rico” (with Argeo Quiñones) teleSUR, June 3. Available at: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Politics-Primaries-and- Crisis-in-Puerto-Rico-20160602-0035.html

2016 “Clave el Modelo Cooperativo,” El Nuevo Día, p.52, May 19,. https://www.elnuevodia.com/opinion/columnas/claveelmodelocooperativo- columna-2200388/

2016 “Sobre la Libertad y la Economía,” Revista Puertorriqueña Economía Política March 14. https://economiapoliticapr.org/2016/03/14/sobre-la-libertad-y-la-economia/

2016 “Reforma Contributiva: ¿para qué y para quién?” (with Ricardo Fuentes- Ramírez), Claridad, March 10-16.

5 2015 “The Origins of the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis” (with Heriberto Martínez-Otero), Jacobin (online version), August 11. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/puerto-rico-debt-crisis-imf/

2015 “Puerto Rico’s Debt: A Conjunctural Overview” (with Heriberto Martínez-Otero), New Politics (online version), July 20. http://newpol.org/content/puerto- rico%E2%80%99s-debt-conjunctural-overview

2015 “La deuda de Puerto Rico: una mirada coyuntural” (with Heriberto Martínez- Otero), El Salmón Contracorriente, July 14, 2015. http://www.elsalmoncontracorriente.es/?La-deuda-de-Puerto-Rico-una-mirada

2015 “Riesgo, Política y Poder,” 80grados.net, July 3. https://www.80grados.net/riesgo-politica-y-poder/

2015 “Pablo Iglesias y Podemos en Nueva York,” Claridad, March.

2014 “La distribución del ingreso,” El Nuevo Día, June 14. https://www.elnuevodia.com/opinion/columnas/ladistribuciondelingreso- columna-1800114/

2014 “La ceguera económica sí está bien distribuida,” Claridad, May 29-June 4.

2013 “Cooperativismo y Ley Marcora para Puerto Rico” (with Heriberto Martínez- Otero) http://www.80grados.net/cooperativismo-y-la-ley-marcora-para-puerto- rico/. Republished in Claridad, August 1-7, 2013.

2012 “El Minotauro Global: Estados Unidos como centro de la crisis mundial,” Claridad, June 21-27.

2012 “Microcrédito y Pobreza,” Claridad, June 14-20.

2011 “A diez años del 11 de septiembre: Los ejercicios imperiales y la crisis del sistema,” Claridad, September 8-14, 2011.

2011 “40 años del Cheetah: Un vistazo general del antes y después del golpe de gracia salsero,” Claridad, August 25-31. Republished in two parts in Melómanos Documentos, No 55-56, 2012.

6 2011 “Kapitalizm Sonrası Düşe Bir Katkı: Katılımcı Ekonomi,” Birikim, No 268-269, pp. 45-48, August-September.

2011 “Oscilaciones ideológicas en debate 'intervención vs liberalización',” Diálogo Digital, August 15.

2011 “La ideología de los literatos de la economía,” Revista Amauta, August 14.

2011 “Sociedad, Desarrollo y Conocimiento,” Claridad, July 21-27.

2011 “Hay economistas y hay economistas,” El Nuevo Día, versión cibernética, June15.

2011 “Keynes y el grito de histeria capitalista,” Claridad, April 28- May 4.

2011 “Adam Smith no está muerto,” El Nuevo Día, versión cibernética, April 21.

2011 “La mujer y la crisis en el mercado laboral,” Claridad, April 14-20.

2011 “A Contribution to the Post-Capitalist Imaginary” (in Turkish), Siyaset Kahvesi, January 8th, 2011. http://www.siyasetkahvesi.com/sayfa.php?ole=yazi&yzid=982

2010 “¿Marx dónde estás?¿Entre rugidos o maullidos?” (with Manuel Marqués), Claridad, December 16-22.

2010 “El capitalismo depredador a tres años de su crisis,” Claridad, August 2-8.

2010 “Entrevista a Richard Wolff: Estados Unidos y la Crisis Capitalista,” Claridad, July 29- August 4. Republished in the journal Trabajadores of the Universidad Obrera de México, Vol. 78, pp 12-16, May-June, 2010.

2010 “Paul Samuelson: Obituario tardío de un cómplice,” Claridad, March 18-24.

2009 “La anarquía capitalista y el sufrimiento de las mayorías,” Claridad, December 10-16.

2009 “¿La ilusión de la recuperación?,” Claridad, August 13-19.

2009 “Capitalismo Neoliberal y Capitalismo Regulado: Dos caras de la misma moneda,” Claridad, July 23-29, 2009.

2009 “El Plan Obama y las Representaciones de la Crisis Capitalista,” Claridad, March 4-11.

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2008 “Keynes, Smith y el Síntoma de la Crisis Financiera,” Claridad, October 23-29.

2007 “El Problemático Discurso de la Eficiencia Económica,” Claridad, December.

2006 “Sobre Economistas, sus Modelos y el Futuro de Puerto Rico,” Claridad, October.

Seminars and Presentations

Invited Lectures 2018 “The Latin American Diaspora Experience: A conversation and concert presentation concerning the causes, contributions, and current conditions of the Latin American Diaspora” (with Edward Paulino), City College, NYC, March 27.

2017 “Crisis in Puerto Rico: Who is to blame? What can be done?” presented at Holyrood Church, NYC, September 24.

2017 “Notes of Hope: The Current Puerto Rican Experience,” panel with Carlos Torre, Johnny Colón, and Andrés Torres, presented at Lehman College, April 28.

2017 “Island Promesas: A Conversation on the Economic Crisis in Puerto Rico,” panel with Ed Morales and Miguel Luciano, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY, February 8.

2016 “The self-inflicted crisis and the Junta in Puerto Rico” presented at UMass/Amherst, for the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, October 21.

2016 “The self-inflicted crisis and the Junta in Puerto Rico” presented at Holyoke Public Library, Massachusetts, October 22.

2016 “La Junta Fiscal: Austerity, Wealth Extraction and Crisis in Puerto Rico,” presented at the monthly Democracy At Work Meetings, Brooklyn, New York, September 21.

8 2015 “Crisis Económica en Puerto Rico,” panel with Héctor Cordero, presented at the Centro de Acción Pastoral Latino, Bronx, NYC, September 14.

2013 “Crisis Economics: How The Big Shots Gamble With Your Well Being,” presented at the annual John Jay College of Criminal Justice Open House, New York, November, 10.

2012 “Democracy at the Workplace: Are Coops a Solution to the Capitalist Crisis?,” presentation as part of the Economic Justice Speakers Series held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, March 19.

2009 “Wage Stagnation and the Current Financial Crisis: A Historical View,” talk presented for the Northampton Living Wage Coalition in Northampton, MA, February 19.

2008 “Salsa y Kontrol: A Class Analysis of Latin Music in NY,” Association for Economic and Social Analysis Workshop, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, May 7.

Scholarly Conferences 2018 “The Solidarity Economy and Puerto Rico” in panel “Puerto Rico: The Sun still Rises” presented at Left Forum, John Jay College, NYC, June 2.

2018 “Heterodox Economics at John Jay College” (with S. Bernardo, G. Dhondt, and J. Rebello), panel presented at Left Forum, John Jay College, NYC, June 2.

2017 “The rentier state in Puerto Rico” presented at the Urban Studies Conference at La Guardia Community College, NYC, November 7.

2017 “The Self-inflicted Dimensions of Puerto Rico’s Crisis” presented at the 4th Biennial International Conference of the Network for the Critical Study of Global Capitalism, La Havana, Cuba, November 1st.

2017 “The Self-inflicted Dimensions of Puerto Rico’s Crisis” presented at the Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rico Symposium, organized by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies of Hunter College, at the Silberman School of Social Work, NYC, October 28.

2017 "Puerto Rico, and the Junta: A tale of colonial and neocolonial dispossession," panel with Ed Morales, Sarah Molinari, and David Galarza, presented at Left Forum, John Jay College, NYC, June 4, 2017.

9 2017 “Millennial Marxism: Does the Revolution Need a Revolution?,” panel with Antonio Callari, Sumitra Rajkumar, Sujani Reddy, and Nicholas Powers, presented at Left Forum, John Jay College, NYC, June 4, 2017.

2016 "Austerity, Wealth Extraction, and Crisis: The Case of Puerto Rico," presented at the International Post-Keynesian Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, September 15.

2015 “Fiscal Crisis and Opportunities: What Route for Puerto Rico” presented at the Puerto Rico and Massachusetts: Current Crisis and a Vision for the Future Conference, at Roxbury Community College, Boston, November 12.

2014 “Financialization: Autonomization or Feudalization of Capital?” (with Rajesh Bhattacharya) presented at the Eastern Economic Association’s annual meeting at Boston, March 9.

2014 “History, Common Sense, and Method: Radical Political Economy and the Critique of Mainstream Economics,” presented at the Eastern Economic Associations annual meeting at Boston, March 7.

2013 “Worker Cooperatives: Key Ingredients for Viability,” panel with Erik Olsen, Virginie Pérotin, Christopher Gunn, Al Campbell, and Robin Hahnel, presented at the Allied Social Science Association Annual Conference in San Diego, California, January 4-6.

2012 “Dándole sentido a la financialización: El Neoliberalismo y la Feudalización del Capital,” presented at the IV Encuentro Internacional de la Economía Política y Derechos Humanos, at the Universidad Popular Madres Plaza de Mayo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 4-6.

2012 “After the Crisis, Is a New Deal Possible? Do We Want One?,” a roundtable discussion with Geert Dhondt, Mathieu Dufour, Josh Mason and Eric Pineault presented at the Left Forum at Pace University, New York, March 17.

2012 “Making Sense of Financialization: Neoliberalism and the Feudalization of Capital” (with Rajesh Bhattacharya), presented at the Eastern Economic Associations annual meeting at Boston, March 11.

2011 “Politics and Ideology in Economics Pedagogy,” panel presented at 3rd International Conference of the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) presented at UMass/Amherst, Nov 11-13.

10 2011 “The handyman economist: how economists save the world (and capitalism),” presented at the 2nd annual International Conference in Political Economy, Istanbul University, Beyazit, May 20-22.

2010 “Is the cooperative model a solution to capitalism's crisis?,” presented at the 7th Historical Materialism Conference, London, Nov. 11-14.

2010 “Cooperatives, Class, and Value Theory”, panel at Left Forum with David Ruccio, Bruce Roberts, David Kristjanson and Stephen Healy. Pace University, NYC, March 20.

2009 “The Discourse of Development during Crisis in Puerto Rico,” presented at the 7th Rethinking Marxism Conference, UMass/Amherst, Nov. 5-8.

2009 “The Effect of the Crisis on Economic Thought,” a roundtable discussion with J. Mohan Rao, A. Razmi and J.P. de Souza presented at the 2nd annual Faculty and Graduate Student Conference at the Political Economy Research Institute in Amherst, Massachusetts, May 2.

2009 “Exploring Root Causes and Solutions to the Financial Meltdown and Economic Crisis” (with Özgür Orhangazi), presented at the First National Forum on the Solidarity Economy, UMass/ Amherst , March 19-22.

Referee Services (journals + book publishers)

Ambito de Encuentros Antipode Cambridge Journal of Economics Journal of Globalization and Development Journal of Post Keynesian Economics Pensamiento al Margen Research in Political Economy Rethinking Marxism Review of Radical Political Economics Revista Cuadernos de Economía Routledge Studies in Political Economy

Teaching Experience, Courses Taught

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Undergraduate Level Eco 101: Introduction to Economics and Global Capitalism Eco 105: Understanding U.S. Economic Data Eco 213: Political Economy Eco 283: Special Topics: Political Economy of Development in the Caribbean Eco 283: Special Topics: Political Economy of Puerto Rico Eco 310: Economics in Historical Perspectives Eco 405: Seminar on Austerity and the Euro Crisis Eco 405: Capstone Seminar

Graduate Level Eco 713: Political Economy

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Department of Economics

Undergraduate Level Political Economy of Development in Latin America Economic Principles and Problems History of Economic Thought

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey Department of Economics

International Political Economy Introduction to Political Economy

Department of

History of the Marxist Tradition

University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Economics

Main Instructor Intermediate Microeconomics International Economy Marxist Economics

12 Teaching Assistant Introduction to Microeconomics Introduction to Macroeconomics Introduction to Political Economy Marxian Economics Writing in Economics

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Department of Economics

Teaching Assistant Introduction to Economics Introduction to Statistics Math for Economists I Math for Economists II

Guest Lectures

Lecture on “Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Crisis” at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, in a course on Latino Communities in the U.S., taught by Ed Morales (Spring, 2019).

Lecture on “Puerto Rico’s Economic Development” at John Jay College, in a course on Global Economic Development, taught by Dr. Joan Hoffman (Spring, 2014).

Lecture on “Capitalism and Urban Development” at John Jay College, in a course on Urban Sociology, taught by Prof. Ilgin Erdem (Fall, 2013).

Lecture on “Centralized and Decentralized Economic Planning Models” at Boğaziçi University, Turkey, in a course on Contemporary World Economy, taught by Prof. Cem Oyvat (Summer, 2011).

Intensive Seminar on the History of Economic Thought, at the Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC) Department at UMass/Amherst, taught by Prof. Katherine Mallory (Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010).

Independent Studies Supervised

Race, Class and Education (Spring 2019) State and Money Theories (Spring 2018) Understanding Economics and Global Capitalism (Fall 2016)

13 Special Topics in Economics (Spring 2015) The Political Economy of Development in Latin America (Fall 2014) The Marxist Dialectical Method (Spring 2010)

Professional Associations (current and past)

Union of Radical Political Economics American Society for Hispanic Economists Eastern Economic Association World Association for Political Economy Association for Economic and Social Analysis Asociación Puertorriqueña de Economía Política International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy Professional Staff Congress, PSC-CUNY Graduate Employee Organization, UAW Local 2322

Service

Economics Department, John Jay College

Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Standards Committee, 2015-2017 General Education Subcommittee, 2015-2017 Faculty Senate, 2014-2015 Graduate Program Director, Fall 2019-present Interim Graduate Program Director, Spring 2019 Deputy Chair, Spring 2018 Appeals Committee, 2014, 2017 Hiring Committee, 2013, 2016, 2019 Economics Department Newsletter, Co-editor, Fall 2013-Spring 2015; Fall 2016 Economic Justice Speaker Series, Coordinator, Fall 2013-Spring 2015

Economics Graduate Student Organization, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Co-Chair, 2006-2007 Graduate Student Representative- Hiring Committee, 2009-2010 Student Representative- Graduate Studies Committee, Fall 2009

Awards/Fellowships

2015 Distinguished Teaching Award, John Jay College (with Mathieu Dufour, Michelle Holder and Geert Dhondt) 2011 Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) Dissertation

14 Fellowship 2005 Diversity Fellowship, University of Massachusetts

Media Interviews

WBAI 99.5 FM, Living in Spanglish, interview on Wall Street and the failure of Neoclassical economics, April 18, 2018.

WBAI 99.5 FM for the program Economic Update (retransmitted by over 70 radio stations around the U.S., 1.3 million listeners). Interview on “Heterodox Economics” and the Economics MA program at John Jay College, February, 2018.

WBAI 99.5 FM, Living in Spanglish, on fiscal plan of the govt. of Puerto Rico, February 8, 2018.

WLTH 1370AM, interview on Puerto Rico post-hurricane María, December 7, 2017.

WBAI 99.5 FM Living in Spanglish, on the imposition of a fiscal control board in Puerto Rico, aired on September 8, 2016.

WBAI 99.5 FM for the program Economic Update (retransmitted by over 70 radio stations around the U.S., 1.3 million listeners). Interview on the crisis and the imposition of a fiscal control board in Puerto Rico, aired on September 2nd, 2016.

WKVM 810 AM for the program Fuego Cruzado. Interview on coup d’etat attempt in Turkey, July 15, 2016.

Manhattan Neighborhood Network, for the program The Radical Imagination. “Universal Debt: The particular cases of Greece and Puerto Rico,” aired on November 22, 2015.

Telemundo (Boston) and Univisión TV newscast, November 12, 2015.

WBAI 99.5 FM for the program Economic Update. Interview on socio-economic crisis of Puerto Rico, August 25, 2015.

MintPress News for article “Rich Investors Flock to Puerto Rico as Debt Crisis Pushes Poor to Mainland,” August 18, 2015. Available at: http://www.mintpressnews.com/rich-

15 investors-flock-to-puerto-rico-as-the-debt-crisis-pushes-to-the-poor-to-the- mainland/208707/ teleSUR for a documentary on “Alan Greenspan, Neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus,” May 22, 2014.

WMUA 91.1 FM for the program Cancion Urgente. Interview on “Salsa in Jazz and Jazz in Salsa,” April 25, 2012.

KPFA 94.1 FM for the program Against the Grain. Interview about “Cooperatives under Capitalism,” December 21, 2011. Available at: http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/510/id/511950/wed-12-21-11-co-ops-under- capitalism

WMUA 91.1 FM for the program Cancion Urgente, Interview on “Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz: Kings of Salsa,” November, 2009.

WMUA 91.1 FM for the program Cancion Urgente. Interview about “The Development of Latin Music in NYC,” February 9th, 2009.

References

Professor Emeritus Richard D. Wolff Department of Economics University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 01003 (646) 336-8443 [email protected]

Professor Argeo Quiñones Pérez Department of Economics University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras, PR 00931 (787)-640-1474 [email protected]

Professor Agustín Laó-Montes

16 Department of Sociology University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 01003 (413) 219-6043 [email protected]

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