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  CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME:
  Albritton, Robert Rapp
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DEGREES
  1973: Ph.D., U.C.L.A., Political Science
  l967: M.A., U.C.L.A., Political Science
  l963: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Political Science
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PRESENT POSITION:
  Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, York University
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PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
  2001-2005: Professor, York University
  1972-2001: Associate Professor, York University
  l969-l972: Lecturer, Political Science, York University
  1966-1969: Teaching Assistant, UCLA
  l963-1965: Teacher, U.S. Peace Corps, Ethiopia

 

PUBLICATIONS:

AUTHORED BOOKS:

A Japanese Reconstruction of Marxist Theory, London: Macmillan, l986.

A Japanese Approach to Stages of Capitalist Development, London: Macmillan, 1991. (translated into Japanese and Farsi).

Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy, London: Macmillan, 1999. (translated into Farsi and Chinese)

Economics Transformed: Discovering the Brilliance of Marx, London: Pluto, 2007 (translated into Chinese).

Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity, Pluto Press: London, 2009. (translated into Chinese, Korean, and Turkish)

 

EDITED BOOKS:

A Japanese Approach to Political Economy: Unoist Variations, edited with T. Sekine, London: Macmillan, 1995.

Phases of Capitalist Development, edited with M. Itoh, R. Westra, and A. Zuege, London: Palgrave, 2001. (To be translated into Chinese by New Science Press, Beijing.)

New Dialectics and Political Economy, edited with John Simoulidis, London: Palgrave, 2003.
(To be translated into Turkish.)

New Socialisms: Futures Beyond Globalization edited with John Bell, Shannon Bell, Richard Westra, London: Routledge, 2004.

The Political Economy of the Present and Possible Global Future, edited with Bob Jessop and Richard Westra, London: Anthem Press, 2007.

The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity, edited with Richard Westra and Dennis Badeen. Frontiers of Political Economy Series. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2014.

 

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

"Language and Political Theory: T.D. Weldon's Vocabulary of Politics Revisited", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, #5, l975, pp. 17-31.

"Hobbes on Political Science and Political Order", Canadian Journal of Political Science, IX, #3, Sept. 1976, pp. 464-472.

"The Politics of Locke's Philosophy", Political Studies, Vol. XXIV, No.3, Sept. 1976, pp. 253-267.

"The Dialectic of Capital: A Japanese Contribution", Capital and Class, Spring 1984, pp. 157-176.

"Stages of Capitalist Development", Studies in Political Economy, #19, Spring, 1986.

"Marxian Historical Materialism: An Anti-Critique", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 17, No.2, June '87, pp.239-248.

"Levels of Analysis in Marxian Political Economy: An Unoist Approach", Radical Philosophy #60, Spring, 1992.

"Marxian Political Economy for an Age of Postmodern Excess",  Rethinking Marxism Vol.6, No.1, Spring 1993.

"Did Agrarian Capitalism Exist?" The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.20, No.3, April 1993.

"The Unique Ontology of Capital", Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, "Marx's Theories Today", ed.by R. Panasiuk and L. Nowak.

"Agrarian Capitalism: A Response to Michael Zmolek" in Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 28 No. 1, Oct. 2000.

"Theory and History in Thinking the Transition to Capitalism: A Reply to Zmolek", The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, Jan. 2002.

"A Response to Chris Arthur", Historical Materialism Vol. 10, No. 2.

"Theorising Capital's Deep Structure and the Transformation of Capitalism", Historical Materialism, Vol. 12, No. 3.

“Clarifying the Root Differences: Considerations on the Debate with Zmolek”, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2 Jan. 20, 2004.

“Returning to Marx’s Capital: A Critique of Lebowitz’s Beyond Capital, History of Economic Ideas, Vol. XI, No. 3.

“Subjectivity in Capitalist Culture”, The Journal of Critical Realism, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004.

“How Dialectics Runs Aground: The Antinomies of Arthur’s Dialectic of Capital”, Historical Materialism, 13.2, 2005.

“Marx’s Value Theory and Class Struggle: A Rejoinder to Lebowitz”, History of Economic Ideas, XII, 2, 2004.

“Between Obesity and Hunger: The Capitalist Food Industry” in Panitch and Leys eds. Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism, Socialist Register 2010, Wales: Merlin Press,2009. (translated into Finnish).

“Marxist Political Economy and Global Warming”, International Journal of Pluralism in Economics Education, on-line (December 2013).

ARTICLES IN BOOKS:

"Introduction" with John Bell in Albritton and Sekine (London: Macmillan Press, 1995).

"Theorizing the Realm of Consumption in Marxian Political Economy" in Albritton and Sekine (1995).

"Regulation Theory: A Critique" in Albritton and Sekine (1995).

"Capitalism in the Future Perfect Tense" in Albritton, Itoh, Westra, and Zuege (2001).

"Superseding Lukacs" in Albritton and Simoulidis ed. (2003)

"Introduction" in Albritton and Simoulidis ed. (2003)

“Socialism and Individual Freedom” in Albritton, Bell, Bell, Westra (2004)

“Introduction” with Richard Westra in Albritton, Bell, Bell, Westra (2004)

"Marx’s Value Theory and Subjectivity" in Westra and Zuege eds., Value and The World Economy Today: Production, Finance and Globalization, Palgrave (2004)

“Eating the Future” in Albritton, Jessop, Westra eds., The Political Economy of the Present and Possible Global Future, Anthem Press (2007)

“Marxian Crisis Theory and Causality” in Ruth Groff ed., Revitalizing Causality: Realism About Causality in Philosophy and Social Science, Routledge (2008).

“Objectivity and Marxian Political Economy” in Jon Frauley and Frank Pearce eds., Critical Realism and the Social Sciences: Heterodox Elaborations, University of Toronto Press (2007).

“A Practical Utopia for the Twenty-First Century”, in Vieira and Marder eds. Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought. London: Continuum Press, 2012

“Commodification and commodity fetishism” in Fine and Saad-Filho eds. The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics, Edward Elgar, 2012.

“Two Great Food Revolutions: The Domestication of Nature and the Transgression of Nature’s Limits” in Koc, Winson, Sumner eds. Critical Perspectives in Food Studies, Toronto: OUP, 2013.

 “A Phase of Transition Away From Capitalism”, in  The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity, eds. Albritton, Richard Westra and Dennis Badeen. Frontiers of Political Economy Series. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2014.

 

NON-REFEREED ARTICLES:

"The Game Analogy and Bourgeois Ideology", Social Praxis, Vol.3, #3-4, pp. 231-242.

"Une Nouvelle Approche Pour Concevoir La Politique de L'Epoque Capitaliste", Critiques Socialistes, No. 3, Fall '87

"The Extension of Uno's Stage Theory: Consumerism as the Fourth Stage" (translated into Japanese), The Keizai Hyoron, January, 1991

"Is The Stage of Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism?" (translated into Japanese), The Journal of Economics: Hokkai-Gakuen University, Vol.39, No.1, Sept. 1991.

"The De(con)struction of Marx's Capital", Transformation #1, 1995.

 
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