Fred Magdoff

Fred Magdoff is an American soil scientist. He is Emeritus Professor of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont and an adjunct professor of crop and soil science at Cornell University. ^[1]

He received a BA in history from Oberlin College in 1963 and both an MA in 1965 and Phd in 1969 from Cornell University in soil science. ^[2]

He is the son of socialist commentator Harry Magdoff. ^[3]

He is a regular contributor to Monthly Review . ^{[4] [5]}

Books

• with John Bellamy Foster The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (Monthly Review Press, 2009) ^[6]
• with Michael Yates The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know (Monthly Review Press, 2009) ^[7]
• with Brian Tokar Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal (Monthly Review Press, 2010) ^[8]
• with John Bellamy Foster What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism: A Citizen’s Guide to Capitalism and the Environment (Monthly Review Press, 2011) ^{[9] [10]}
• with Chris Williams Creating an Ecologial Society (Monthly Review Press, 2017) ^{[11] [12]}
• with Harold Van Es Building Soils for Better Crops: Ecological Management for Healthy Soils

References

1. Chowdhury, Farooque (25 November 2011). "The People's Democratic Struggle and the Struggle for the Environment: An Interview with Fred Magdoff | MR Online". MR Online.
2. "Putting Crops to the Test Thwarts Pollution".
3. "Harry Magdoff, Economist, Dies at 92 (Published 2006)". The New York Times . 9 January 2006.
4. "Interview: Fred Magdoff on What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism". 24 August 2011.
5. "Fred Magdoff Discusses Capitalist Agriculture| Countercurrents". 3 July 2021.
6. Vidal, Matt (2010). "The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences" . Review of Political Economy. 22: 177–180. doi:10.1080/09538250903392143.
7. Gallagher, Adam E. (2012). "Book review: The abcs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know, by Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates" . Capital & Class. 36: 180–182. doi:10.1177/0309816811432878e.
8. Kremer, Kathy S. (2012). "Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal – Edited by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar" . Rural Sociology. 77 (3): 488–490. doi:10.1111/j.1549-0831.2012.00087_3.x.
9. Neale, Kate; Magdoff, Fred; Foster, John Bellamy (2012). "Reviewed work: What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism: A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment, MagdoffFred, FosterJohn Bellamy" . Australian Journal of Environmental Education. 28 (1): 59–61. doi:10.1017/aee.2012.7. JSTOR   26420536.
10. Szerszynski, Bronislaw (2013). "Book Review: What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism: A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment, by Magdoff, F. And Foster, J. B." . Organization & Environment. 26 (3): 355–357. Bibcode:2013OrgEn..26..355S. doi:10.1177/1086026612461258.
11. https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17175_creating-an-ecological-society-toward-a-revolutionary-transformation-by-fred-magdoff-and-chris-williams-reviewed-by-justin-bzovy/.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
12. Krithi, S. (2017). "Book Review: Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams (2017), Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation" . Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. 6 (3): 406–409. Bibcode:2017AgrS....6..406K. doi:10.1177/2277976017745196.

External links

• Fred Magdoff at Monthly Review