QC Economics

Economics Faculty

William Tabb, Professor Emeritus
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Schools Attended:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968
BA, Earlham College, 1962

Research Interests: Political Economy, History of Economic Thought, Globalization  

Publications
 

Books Written:

 

Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization (NY: Columbia University Press, 2004).

Unequal Partners: A Primer on Globalization (New York: The New Press, 2002).

The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and Capitalist Development in the Early 21 st Century (Monthly Review Press, 2001) Available in Korean, Farsi, Italian, Indonesian,  Turkish and an Indian edition.

Reconstructing Political Economy: The Great Divide in Economic Thought (Routledge, 1999)

The Postwar Japanese System: Cultural Economy and Economic Transformation (Oxford University Press,1995)

The Long Default:  New York and the Urban Fiscal Crisis   (New York:  Monthly Review Press, 1982)  Japanese edition, 1984.

The Political Economy of the Black Ghetto (W.W. Norton, 1970).

BOOKS EDITED

Instability and Change in the World Economy (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1989).  With Arthur MacEwan.

Churches in Struggle:  Liberation Theologies and Social Change .  (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1986).

Sunbelt-Snowbelt:  Urban Growth and Regional Restructuring (Oxford University Press, 1983). With Larry Sawers.

Marxism and the Metropolis , (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979; Second Edition, 1983). With Larry Sawers.

Journal Articles:

 

He has published over 100 articles, essays, and book chapters His work has been translated into a dozen languages. He has given papers to the American Economics Association, the American Political Science Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Sociological Association, the International Sociological Association, the Econometric Society, the International Econometric Society and other national and international conferences (see vitae).

Over his career Professor Tabb has taught courses in labor, urban, money and banking, industrial organization, American economic history, Latin American and Asian development and the history of economic thought as well as in graduate programs in Economics, Political Science, Theology and Sociology.

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Dr. Tabb's More Recent Publications include:

Finance and the Contemporary Social Structure of Accumulation, in Terrence McDonough, Michael Reich, and David M. Kotz eds. Capitalism: Social Structures of Accumulation Theory for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Paper first presented at the "Growth and Crisis, Social Structures of Accumulation Theory and Analysis" conference J.E. Cairnes Graduate School of Business & Public Policy, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

Transnationalization, Class and the State, Samir Dasgupta and Jan Nederveen Pieterse eda., Politics of Globalization (Sage, 2010).

Three Ways to Understand the Current Crisis, Science & Society Volume 73, No. 4, October, 2010.

Globalisation Today: At the Borders of Class and State Theory, Science and Society, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2009). Reprinted in (2009) Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Special Issue "The Nation in the Global Era: Conflict and Transformation," Volume 8, No. 2-3.

The Global Food Crisis, International Development Economists Association @ http://www.networkideas.org/feathm/may2008/ft22_Global_Food_Crisis_Index.htm also version in Z Magazine, September 2008

Crises of the World Capitalist System, Monthly Review October 2008 (presented at the Amandla! Conference Continuity and Discontinuity of Capitalism in the Post-apartheid South Africa, CapeTown, 4 - 6 April 2008)

"The Uncertain Prospects for U.S. Leadership," in Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer eds., What Is Globalization? Critical Perspectives from North and South Palgrave Macmillan 2006

"The Power of the Rich," Monthly Review, July-August 2006

"Mr. Bush and Neoliberalism," in Richard Robison ed., The Neo-Liberal Revolution: Forging the Market Economy Palgrave, 2006 (Paper first presented at the Globalization and Governance Conference, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)

"The Centrality of Finance," Review of World-Systems Theory, Vol. XIII, No, 1, 2007

Evaluation of UNDP Contribution to South-South Cooperation, United Nations Development Programme Evaluation Office, Principal Investigator, 2007

"Resource Wars," Monthly Review, January 2007

"Transnationalization, Class and the State," in Samir Dasgupta ed., Politics of Globalization Sage, 2007

"Financial Crisis and Financialization's Appropriations," Z Magazine, June 2008

IBSA and the BRICs: State Logic versus Capital Logic Approaches to Projecting 21st Century Globalisation. This paper was presented as a keynote address to the Global Studies Association, New York City, June 8, 2008

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