David Laibman (born December 25, 1942) is an American economist. He is a professor emeritus of economics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the editor emeritus of Science & Society, a quarterly Marxist journal founded in 1936.
Biography
Laibman attended high school in Cleveland, Ohio, matriculating at
Antioch College and attending
Ruskin College.
He received a Ph.D. in economics in 1973 at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York.
His dissertation,
The Invariance Condition for Value-Price Transformation in a Linear, Non-Decomposable Two-Sector Model, dealt with problems in Marxist value theory.
Laibman teaches
economic theory, political economy, and mathematical economics, at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels at CUNY.
He is also a fingerstyle guitarist, especially its application to the ragtime music of the early twentieth century. With Eric Schoenberg, Laibman recorded The New Ragtime Guitar for Folkways Records in 1970. His solo album, Classical Ragtime Guitar, was released by Rounder Records in 1980.
He issued a DVD, Guitar Artistry of David Laibman.
Published works
Laibman is the author of five books:
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Value, Technical Change and Crisis: Explorations in Marxist Economic Theory (1992)
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Capitalist Macrodynamics: A Systematic Introduction (1997)
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Deep History: A Study in Social Evolution and Human Potential (2007)
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Political Economy After Economics: Scientific Method and Radical Imagination (2012)
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Passion and Patience: Society, History, and Revolutionary Vision (2015)
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