Eric A. Schutz

Professor, Economics Department
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL 32789
Phone 407-646-2509
Fax 646-2485)

SCHUTZ@ROLLINS.EDU

Ph. D. in Economics: UNC - Chapel Hill, N.C. - 1981.

Concentrations: Industrial Organization & Economic Theory.

Dissertation: "Uncertainty & the R&D Project".

Teaching experience:

Visiting Assistant Professor - Economics Dept., UNC - Greensboro, NC (1978-1979).

Visiting Assis. Prof. - Economics Dept., Bucknell Univ. - Lewisburg, PA (1979-1983).

Assis. Prof. (tenured, 1987) & Chair (1986-87) - Economics & Politics Dept., Keene State Coll. - Keene, NH (1983-1987).

Assoc. Prof. (tenured, 1991) & Chair (1994-97) - Economics Dept., Rollins Coll. - Winter Park, FL (1989-present).

Prof. & Chair (2003-2006) - Economics Dept., Rollins Coll. - Winter Park, FL (1998-present).

Professional Affiliationss:

Union for Radical Political Economics (national association of mostly academic left-wing economists);

Association for Institutional Thought (national association of 'traditional' institutionalist economists).

Courses taught recently include:

Distribution of Income & Wealth ; Comparative Economic Systems ; Economics & Democracy; Limits to Growth; Labor Economics ; Radical Political Economy; Media & Political Economy; Markets & Power;

... also regularly taught:

Principles and Intermediate Micro' & Macroeconomics ; History of Economic Thought ; Econometrics ; Statistics; Mathematical Economics; Industrial Organization.

Academic publications & presentations:

Inequality & Power: The Economics of Class. Routledge. N.Y. 2011.

" The Language of Distributive Justice and Power Theories of Inequality" presented at the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) Annual Conference, 2007; earlier version presented at the Association for Institutionalist Thought (AFIT) Annual Conference, 2007.

"What has Neoclassical Economics Contributed to Understanding Social Power?" presented at the Association of Heterodox Economists Annual Conference 2005.

"Microeconomics, Political Economy and the Real World" presented at the International Conference of Associations for Pluralism in Economics Conference 2003.

"Power, Class & Economic Inequality in Neoclassical Terms" presented at the Association for Institutionalist Thought Annual Conference 2005.

"Toward a Class Perspective on Economic Inequality: Fifteen Good Things about Class Analysis" co-authored with Prof. Edward Royce (Sociology, Rollins College) & co-presented at the Association for Institutionalist Thought Annual Conference 2003.

Markets & Power: The 21st Century Command Economy. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. Armonk, NY. 2001.

Articles in Encyclopedia of Political Economy (PhillipAnthony O'Hara, ed.) Routledge, NY, 1999: "Alienation"; "Capitalism"; "Economic Power"; "Exploitation"; and "Surplus Value as Rent, Interest and Profit".

Review of T. Takata's Power Theory of Economics for the Journal of Economic Issues, Dec. 1996.

"Markets & Power", Journal of Economic Issues, December, 1995.

Review of R. Bartlett's Economics & Power for the Review of Radical Political Economics, Spring, 1995.

"Social Power in Neo-Marxist Analyses", Review of Radical Political Economics, 26#3, 1994.

"Non-Produced Inputs, Differential Profit-Rates and the Okishio Theorem", Review of Radical Political Economics, 19#2, 1987.

"Monopoly and Competitive Firm Relations and Regional Development in Global Capitalism", Economic Geography, 59#2, 1983 (co-authored with Paul Susman).

Recent work:

A Living Wage for Orange County, A New Direction for Central Florida -- Arguments and Research.


Political affiliations:

Greens Party;

Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice (state progressive group).

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