David Ellerman

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David Patterson Ellerman (born 14 March 1943 in Fayette, Missouri) is a philosopher and author who works in the fields of economics and political economy, social theory and philosophy, quantum mechanics, and in mathematics. He has written extensively on workplace democracy based on a modern treatment of the labor theory of property and the theory of inalienable rights as rights based on de facto inalienable capacities.

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Education

Ellerman was born 14 March 1943. [1] He received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. [1] He went on to Boston University for his graduate work, receiving an MA in philosophy of science in 1967, an MA in economics in 1968, and a doctorate in mathematics in 1972. [1] [2] His PhD thesis was titled Sheaves Of Relational Structures And Ultraproducts, and was advised by Rohit Jivanlal Parikh. [2] [3]

Career

After his PhD, Ellerman remained teaching at Boston University in the mathematics and then the economic department until 1976. [1] He then taught economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston until 1982, then at Boston College until 1987, and finally at Tufts University until 1990. [1] In 1990, he moved to Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he started a labor consulting firm. [4] From 1992 until 2003, he worked at the World Bank as an economics advisor to the Chief Economist (Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern). [1] [4] From 2003 to 2020, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Riverside and since 2020, he is an associate researcher at the University of Ljubljana. [1] [4]

Books

Ellerman's books include:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). David Ellerman.
  2. 1 2 Ellerman, David Patterson (1972). Sheaves Of Relational Structures And Ultraproducts (PhD thesis). Boston University. ProQuest   302640987.
  3. ↑ David Ellerman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 1 2 3 Ellerman, David (2020-05-15). "About the Author". The Uses of Diversity: Essays in Polycentricity. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 247. ISBN   978-1-79362-373-7.
  5. ↑ Reviews of Helping People Help Themselves:
    • Park, Susan (2009). "Review: Ask the Experts? The World Bank and International Development Lending in the Twenty-First Century". Review of International Political Economy. 16 (2): 329–349. doi:10.1080/09692290902718494. JSTOR   27756161. S2CID   153960296.
    • Nutzinger, Hans G. (2006). "Review". Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft[Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics]. 162 (3): 540–542. JSTOR   40752601.
    • Hillyard, Daniel; Hall, Joshua C. (2007). "David Ellerman: Helping People Help Themselves: From The World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance". Knowledge, Technology & Policy. 20 (3): 203–205. doi:10.1007/s12130-007-9026-4. ISSN   0897-1986. S2CID   108728608.
    • Schuh, G. Edward (December 2008). "Book review". The Journal of Socio-Economics. 37 (6): 2566–2567. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2008.05.006.
  6. ↑ Nutzinger, Hans G. (August 1996). "Review of Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life". Kyklos. 49 (3): 472–473. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6435.1996.tb01407.x.
  7. ↑ Reviews for Property and Contract in Economics:
  8. ↑ Reviews for The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm:
  9. ↑ Bell, Philip W.; Kirkland, William Alexander (1983). "Review". Accounting Review. 58 (4): 846–847. JSTOR   247085.
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