Harry Cleaver

Harry Cleaver Jr.
Cleaver lecturing at the University of Texas at Austin
Born (1944-01-21) January 21, 1944 (age 82)
OccupationProfessor emeritus
Children3
Academic background
EducationPhD
Alma materStanford University
ThesisThe Origins of the Green Revolution (1975)
John G. Gurley
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Sub-discipline
Marxian economics, Autonomist Marxism
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas, Austin, The New School
Notable works
Reading Capital Politically

Harry Cleaver Jr. (born 21 January 1944) is an American scholar, Marxist theoretician, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known as the author of Reading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx's Capital. Cleaver is currently active in the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico.

Education

Cleaver began his undergraduate studies at Antioch College in 1962, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1967. At Antioch, Cleaver became involved in the American Civil Rights Movement and began his lifelong engagement with political activism. From 1964 to 1965, Cleaver studied abroad at the University of Montpellier where he engaged with the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France. In 1967, Cleaver enrolled at Stanford University to begin a PhD in economics. While at Stanford, Cleaver was active in the Anti-war Movement. As a student activist opposed to the Vietnam War, Cleaver protested the Stanford Research Institute's connection to the United States Department of Defense, which became the impetus for his dissertation research into the connections between the Green Revolution and social engineering. Cleaver's frustrations with mainstream economic theory during this period in his studies led him to embrace Marxism.

Career

Teaching

In 1971, Cleaver was hired as an assistant professor at the Université de Sherbrooke in Montreal, Quebec where he taught for three years, finished his dissertation, and studied Québécois nationalism. From 1974 to 1976, Cleaver was a visiting assistant professor at the New School for Social Research in the department of economics. In 1976, Cleaver was hired by the economics department of the University of Texas at Austin to teach Marxism. By his own account, the appointment came about in response to some three years of campaigning by graduate students in the departments of economics and government. He remained at the university for 36 years, retiring in 2012. For more than twenty years he taught an annual graduate course (Eco 387L) on Marxist theory based on the three volumes of Marx's Capital.

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Articles

References

  1. ↑ Cleaver, Harry (May 2009). "Curriculum Vitae for Harry Cleaver". Harry Cleaver Homepage. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Faculty Bio - Harry Cleaver Jr". The University of Texas at Austin - College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Cleaver, Harry. "Policy Activism". Harry Cleaver Homepage. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ Cleaver, Harry McBeath Jr. (1975). The Origins of the Green Revolution (Dissertation). ProQuest 302779342.
  5. ↑ Cleaver, Harry. "Research". Harry Cleaver Homepage. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ Cleaver, Harry (March 1, 1972). "The Contradictions of the Green Revolution". The American Economic Review. 62 (1/2): 177–186. JSTOR 1821541.
  7. ↑ Cleaver, Harry. "Teaching". Harry Cleaver Homepage. Retrieved June 8, 2016.

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