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December 2005
David F. Ruccio
Department of Economics & Policy StudiesTel: 574.631.6434
University of Notre DameFax: 574.631.8809
Notre Dame, IN 46556Email:
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1984)
Universidad Nacional del Centro, Huancayo, Peru (1975-76)
B.A., Political Economy, summa cum laude, Bowdoin College (1976)
RESEARCH
Economic Methodology, Political Economy, Latin America
POSITIONS
Professor, University of Notre Dame (2005-present)
Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame (1990-2005)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1989)
Director of Latin American Area Studies, University of Notre Dame (1984-91)
Area Studies Coordinator, University of Notre Dame (1984-91)
Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame (1984-90)
Instructor, University of Notre Dame (1982-84)
Instructor, University of New Hampshire (1981-82)
Visiting Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute (1977-78, 1988)
AFFILIATIONS
Member, Higgins Center for Labor Research Studies (1999-present)
Faculty, Gender Studies Program (1999-present)
Faculty Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (2004-present)
Faculty Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies (1993-94)
Faculty Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, (1982-99)
RECENT GRANTS AND AWARDS
Academic Freedom Award, Indiana Conference, AAUP (2003)
University of California Humanities Research Institute (2002)
Center for Ideas and Society, University of California-Riverside (2002)
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Team Residency (2001)
Kaneb Teaching Award, University of Notre Dame (2000)
TEACHING
Undergraduate
Principles of Microeconomics, Introduction to Economics, International Political Economy, Introduction to Political Economy, Economic Development, Postmodernism and Economics, Marxian Economic Theory, Beyond Economic Man, Keynes and the Bloomsbury Group, Special Studies, Senior Honors Essay
Graduate
Mathematical Methods for Economists, Economics for Noneconomists, Political Economy, Economic Development, Seminar in Political Economy, Economics and Difference, Dissertation Workshop, Marxian Economic Theory, Optimal Planning Models, Teaching Practicum
Special Topics and Directed Readings
Agriculture and the Peasantry, Women and Development, Socialist Economics, Debt and Development, History of the World Economy, Political Economy and Christian Social Teaching, Labor and the Marxian Theory of Value, Reading Capital, Political Economy of the Metropolis, Commodity Chains and the Garment Industry, Popper and Modern Economic Methodology, The Evolution of Feminist Economics
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics, with J. Amariglio (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003) | 349 pp.
Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge, coedited with S. Cullenberg and J. Amariglio (New York: Routledge, 2001) | 495 pp.
“Rereading Althusser,” coedited with A. Callari—special issue of Rethinking Marxism 10 (Fall 1998) | 128 pp.
Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory: Essays in the Althusserian Tradition, coedited with A. Callari (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1996) | 372 pp.
Debt and Development in Latin America, coedited with K. S. Kim (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985) | 226 pp.
Empresas Multinacionais e a Internacionalização do Capital, coeditor and translator (Lisbon:Iniciativas Editoriais, 1977) | 271 pp.
Articles in Refereed Journals
“Unfinished Business: Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks,” Rethinking Marxism 18 (January 2005): 1-7
“Rethinking Politics, Scholarship, and Economics: disClosure Interviews David F. Ruccio,” Disclosure, no. 13 (2004): 39-64
“Globalization and Imperialism,” Rethinking Marxism 15 (January 2003): 75-94
Reprinted in translation: Critica Marxista (Brazil), no. 20 (April 2005)
“Modern Economics: The Case of the Disappearing Body?” (with J. Amariglio), Cambridge Journal of Economics 26 (January 2002): 81-103
Reprinted as “The Body and Neoclassical Economics,” Margins (India) 2 (February 2002): 34-73
“Toward an Anthropology of Class Discourses,” Rethinking Marxism 11 (Summer 1999): 53-58
“Global Fragments: Subjectivity and Class Politics in Discourses of Globalization” (with S. Kayatekin), Economy and Society 27 (February 1998): 74-96
“Rereading Althusser” (with A. Callari), Rethinking Marxism 10 (Fall 1998): iii-ix
“Marx's Critical/Dialectical Procedure: A Review Essay," Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 13 (1995): 311-17
“Postmodernism, Marxism, and the Critique of Modern Economic Thought” (with J. Amariglio), Rethinking Marxism 7 (Fall 1994): 7-35
Reprinted in Recent Developments in Economic Methodology, ed. J. B. Davis, 3 vols. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming)
Reprinted in Why Economists Disagree: An Introduction to Alternative Schools of Thought, ed. D. L. Prychitko. 237-73 (Albany: University of New York Press, 1998)
“The Hidden Successes of Failed Economic Policies,” NACLA’s Report on the Americas 26 (February 1993): 38-43, 45-46
“Failure of Socialism, Future of Socialists?” Rethinking Marxism 5 (Summer 1992): 7-22
“Postmodernism and Economics,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 13 (Summer 1991): 495-510
“When Failure Becomes Success: Class and the Debate over Stabilization and Adjustment,” World Development 19 (1991): 1315-34
“Class Beyond the Nation State” (with S. Resnick and R. Wolff), Review of Radical Political Economics 22 (Spring 1990): 14-27 and Capital and Class, no. 43 (Spring 1991)
“Fordism on a World Scale: International Dimensions of Regulation,” Review of Radical Political Economics 21 (Winter 1989): 33-53
“The Merchant of Venice, or Marxism in the Mathematical Mode,” Rethinking Marxism 1 (Winter 1988): 18-46
Reprinted in Social Scientist (India) 19 (January-February 1991): 18-46
“Nicaragua: The State, Class, and Transition,” Latin American Perspectives 15 (Spring 1988): 50-71
“The State, Planning and Transition in Nicaragua,” Development and Change 18 (January 1987): 5-27
“Essentialism and Socialist Economic Planning:A Methodological Critique of Optimal Planning Theory,” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology4 (1986): 85-108
“Planning and Class in Transitional Societies,” Research in Political Economy 9 (1986): 235-52
“A Methodological Analysis of Dependency Theory:Explanation in André Gunder Frank” (with L. H.Simon), World Development 14 (February 1986): 195-209
“Methodological Aspects of Marxian Approaches to Development:An Analysis of the Modes of Production School” (with L. H.Simon), World Development 14 (February 1986): 211-22
“Bolivia,” Latin American Yearly Review2 (1974): 58-61
Essays in Books
“(Un)real Criticism,” in Tony Lawson and His Critics, ed. E. Fullbrook (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming)
“Capitalism,” in Keywords of American Cultural Studies, ed. B. Burgett and G. Hendler (New York: New York University Press, forthcoming)
“Socialism, Community, and Democracy: A Postmodern Marxian Vision of (Post-) Capitalism” (with A. Callari), for The Future of Heterodox Economics, ed. J. Harvey and R. Garnett (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming)
“Marxian Economics,” in Social Science Encyclopedia, 3d ed., ed. A. Kuper and J. Kuper (New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
“Introduction: Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge” (with S. Cullenberg and J. Amariglio), in Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge, coedited with S. Cullenberg and J. Amariglio, 3-57 (New York: Routledge, 2001)
“‘After’ Development: Reimagining Economy and Class” (with J.-K. Gibson-Graham), in Re/presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Political Economy, ed. J.-K. Gibson-Graham et al., 158-81 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001)
Reprinted in Margins (India) 1 (August 2001): 155-180
“From Unity to Dispersion: The Body in Modern Economic Discourse” (with J. Amariglio), in Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge, ed. S. Cullenberg et al., 143-65 (New York: Routledge, 2001)
“Capitalism and Industrialization in the Third World: Recognizing the Costs and Imagining Alternatives,” in Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism: Radical Perspectives on Economic Theory and Policy, ed. R. Baiman et al., 203-09 (M. E. Sharpe, 2000)
“The Transgressive Knowledge of ‘Ersatz Economics’” (with J. Amariglio), in What Do Economists Know? New Economics of Knowledge, ed. R. Garnett, 19-36 (New York: Routledge, 1999)
“Literary/Cultural ‘Economies,’ Economic Discourse, and the Question of Marxism” (with J. Amariglio), in The New Economic Criticism, ed. M. Woodmansee and M. Osteen, 381-400 (New York: Routledge, 1999)
“Deconstruction,” in The Handbook of Economic Methodology, ed. J. Davis et al., 89-93 (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998)
“The (Dis)orderly Process of Capitalist Competition” (with J. Amariglio), in Marxian Economics: A Centenary Appraisal, vol. 1, ed. R. Bellofiore, 94-108 (London: MacMillan, 1998)
“The Good, the Bad, and the Different: Reflections on Economic and Aesthetic Value” (with J. Amariglio and J. Graham), in The Value of Culture, ed. A. Klamer, 56-73 (Lansing: University of Michigan Press, 1997)
“Introduction: Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory” (with A. Callari), in Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory: Essays in the Althusserian Tradition, coedited with A. Callari, 1-48 (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1996)
“Nondeterminist Marxism: The Birth of a Postmodern Tradition in Economics” (with J. Amariglio, A. Callari, S. Resnick, and R. Wolff), in Beyond Neoclassical Economics: Heterodox Approaches to Economic Theory, ed. F. E. Foldvary, 134-47 (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996)
“Postmodernism, Marxism, and the Critique of Modern Economic Thought” (with J. Amariglio), in Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order, ed. A. Callari et al.13-23 (New York: Guilford, 1995)
“Keynes, Postmodernism, Uncertainty” (with J. Amariglio), in Keynes, Knowledge, and Uncertainty, ed. S. Dow and J. Hillard, 334-356 (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994)
“Perspectives on Underdevelopment: Frank, the Modes of Production School, and Amin” (with L. H. Simon), in The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, 5th ed., ed. K. P. Jameson and C. K. Wilber, 119-50 (New York: Random House, 1992)
“Power and Class: The Contribution of Radical Approaches to Debt and Development,” in Radical Economics, ed. B. B. Roberts and S. F. Feiner, 199-227 (Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1992)
“The Costs of Austerity in Nicaragua: The Worker-Peasant Alliance, 1979-1987,” in Paying the Costs of Austerity in Latin America, ed. H. Handelman and W. Baer, 224-50 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989)
“Radical Theories of Development: Frank, the Modes of Production School, and Amin” (with L. H. Simon), in The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, 4th ed., ed. C. K. Wilber, 121-73 (New York: Random House, 1987)
“The State and Planning in Nicaragua,” in The Political Economy of Revolutionary Nicaragua, ed. R. J. Spalding, 61-82 (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1986)
Reprinted, in translation: “El estado y la planeación en Nicaragua,” in La economía política de la Nicaragua revolucionaria, ed. R. J. Spalding (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1989)
Other Publications
“(Un)real Criticism,” Post-Austistic Economics Review, no. 35 (5 December 2005): 40-49
“‘All that is holy is profaned’: The Market and the University” (with J. Buttigieg), Cultural Logic 7 (2004) [
“Rethinking Marxism: Ten Years On” (with S. Cullenberg, under pen name of “The Editors”), Rethinking Marxism (Spring 1998): 1-4
“Capitalism and Industrialization in the Third World,” Common Sense (October 1996): 10
“Capitalismo e industrializzazione del Terzo Mondo,” A Sinistra (Rome) (1993): 42-43
“Foreword” (with editors of Rethinking Marxism), in This Is My Body: This Is My Blood, 1-3 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1992)
Forthcoming and In Preparation
Economic Representations: Both Academic and Everyday, coedited with S. Cullenberg (edited volume, in preparation)
“Everday Economics and the Community Farm Alliance in Kentucky: An Interview with Deborah Webb” (with D. Bilings) (article, in preparation)
“The Market and the University” (with J. Buttigieg) (article, in preparation)
“The Economics of Empire” (article, in preparation)
“Representations of Global Inequality” (article, in preparation)
Economics, the University, and the World (book manuscript, in preparation)
Planning, Development, and International Political Economy: Essays in Marxian Class Analysis (book manuscript, in preparation)
Journals and Reviewing
Member of the Advisory Council, Econ Journal Watch
Editor and member of the Advisory Board, Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture, and Society
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Margins (India)
Referee: Stanford University Press, University of Michigan Press, Princeton University Press, Blackwell Publishers, Routledge, Guilford Publications, University of Minnesota Press, University of Chicago Press, State University of New York Press
Referee: World Development, Research in Political Economy, Academy of Management Review, Review of Social Economy, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Comparative Economic Studies, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Intervention: Journal of Economics, Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Associate Editor, Latin American Yearly Review3 (1975)
Working Papers
“Introduction: Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge” (with S. Cullenberg and J. Amariglio), Department of Economics, University of California-Riverside, 00-06 (2000)
“Global Fragments: Subjectivity and Politics in Discourses of Globalization” (with S. Kayatekin), School of Business and Economic Studies, University of Leeds, E96/13 (1996)
"When Failure Becomes Success: Class and the Debate over Stabilization and Adjustment," Kellogg Institute Working Paper No. 154 (1991)
“Making Latin America More Like the United States, and Vice Versa: North-South Economic Convergence,” Working Papers in Economics and Political Economy No. 88-1, Department of Economics, Roosevelt University (1988)
“Class and Debt:A Marxian Analysis,” Association for Economic and Social Analysis Discussion Paper 27, University of MassachusettsAmherst (1985)
“The State and Planning in Nicaragua,” Kellogg Institute Working Paper No. 53 (1985)
“Social Theory and Socialist Economic Planning,” Association for Economic and Social Analysis Discussion Paper 13 (1983)
“Essentialism and Socialist Economic Planning,” University of Notre Dame Department of Economics Workshop in Economic Development Working Paper (1983)
“The Cuban Economy Today:An Appraisal of Its Planning and Management System” (with R. H. Girling), Occasional Paper 1, Institute for the Study of a Democratically Managed Society, Sonoma State University (November 1980)
Reviews
Book reviews published in History of Political Economy (1984, 1987), American Journal of Sociology (1987), and Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (1995)
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Academic
“Mathematical Representations: Marxian Economics,” University of North Carolina (2005)
“Economic Representations: Academic and Everyday,” Roosevelt University (2005)
“Mathematical Representations: Neoclassical Economics,” University of North Carolina (2005)
“Postmodernism and Democracy: Marxism and the Rethinking of Socialism,” 2005 Left Forum, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2005)
“Economics and Empire,” Fourth International Marx Congress, Université de Paris X-Nanterre (2004)
“Economic Representations: An Interdisciplinary Project,” University of North Carolina (2004)
“Postmodernism and Economics: A Reply,” International Network for Economic Method Annual Meetings, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, University of Amsterdam (2004)
“An Economists’ Introduction to Postmodernism,” University of Notre Dame (2004)
“Economic Representations: Academic and Everyday,” conference on Economic Representations: Both Academic and Everyday, University of California-Riverside (2004)
“Globalization and Imperialism,” Distinguished Lecture in Social Theory, University of Kentucky (2003)
“‘All this is holy is profaned’: The Market and the University” (with J. Buttigieg), conference on Marxism and the World Stage, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2003)
“Unfinished Business: Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks,” conference on Marxism and the World Stage, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2003)
“Heterodox Economics in the Academy,” Conference on the Future of Heterodox Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City (2003)
“Economic Representations and the Future of Heterodox Economics,” at the Conference on the Future of Heterodox Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City (2003)
“Socialism, Community, and Democracy: A Postmodern Marxian Vision of (Post-) Capitalism,” plenary session, Conference on the Future of Heterodox Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City (2003)
“Subjects of Everyday Economics,” conference on Subjects of Economy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2002)
“Postmodernism and Economics,” City College, City University of New York (2002)
“Economic Representations Across the Disciplines,” Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center (2001)
“Economy|Design” (with R. Mason), conference on Aesthetics of Value, University of California-Riverside (2001)
“Socialism in Latin America: Cuba, Chile, and Nicaragua,” University of Louisville (2001)
“Rethinking Globalization,” plenary session, conference on Marxism 2000, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2000)
“Literature and Economics: An Unholy Alliance?” Modern Studies Association (2000)
“Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Social Theory,” conference on Social Theory 2000, University of Kentucky (2000)
“Rethinking Marxism: Ten Years On,” conference on Social Theory 2000, University of Kentucky (2000)
“Literary/Cultural ‘Economies,’ Economic Discourse, and the Question of Marxism,” American Comparative Literature Association (2000)
“The Case of the Disappearing Body: An Intellectual Mystery Talk,” Franklin and Marshall College (1999)
“After Development: Negotiating the Place of Class,” Allied Social Sciences Association (1999)
“The Illusions of Economism,” plenary session, conference on Culture and Economics, University of Exeter (1998)
“Practicing Economics: A Critical Perspective on Critical Realism,” plenary session, conference on Methodology and the Future of Economics, Trinity College (1998)
“Socialism, Community, and Democracy,” conference on “Le Manifeste Communiste: 150 Ans Aprés,” Paris (1998)
“The Problem of Everyday Economics,” Pennsylvania State University (1998)
“The Transgressive Knowledge of ‘Ersatz Economics’,” Allied Social Sciences Association (1997)
“From Unity to Dispersion: The Body in Modern Economic Discourse,” Allied Social Sciences Association (1997)
“Global Fragments,” Allied Social Sciences Association (1996)
“The Discourse of Economic Development: A Case Study of the Construction of the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’,” Allied Social Sciences Association (1996)
“Toward an Anthropology of Class Discourses,” conference on Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1996)
“Global Fragments,” conference on Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1996)
“Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory,” conference on Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1996)
“Exchanging Marxism: A Critique of the Economics of Literature,” Modern Language Association (1995)
“Modern Economics: The Case of the Disappearing Body?” conference on Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge, University of California-Riverside (1995)
“After Development: Negotiating the Place of Class,” conference on the Politics of Antiessentialism, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1995)
“Keynes, Postmodernism, Uncertainty,” Allied Social Sciences Association (1995)
“The Good, the Bad, and the Different: Reflections on Economic and Aesthetic Value,” conference on the Value of Culture, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (1995)
“Bloomsbury, Keynes, and Modernism: A Response to Jennifer Wicke,” plenary session, conference on the New Economic Criticism, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (1994)
The (Dis)orderly Process of Capitalist Competition,” conference on Karl Marx’s Third Volume of Capital: 1894-1994,” University of Bergamo (1994)
“The Body and Modern Economic Discourse,” conference on the New Economic Criticism, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (1994)
“The Transgressive Knowledge of ‘Ersatz Economics’,” conference on Knowledges: Production, Distribution, Revision, University of Minnesota (1994)
“Keynes, Postmodernism, Uncertainty,” conference on Keynes, Knowledge, and Uncertainty, University of Leeds (1993)
“New Directions for Socialism,” Socialist Scholars Conference (1993)
“Postmodernism and the Critique of Political Economy,” Allied Social Sciences Association (1992)
“Class Beyond the Nation State,” Allied Social Sciences Association (1992)
“Failure of Socialism, Future of Socialists?” Allied Social Science Association (1990), Economic Development Workshop, University of Notre Dame (1991)
Other
“Outsourcing and Other International Economic Issues,” Elections Perspectives on Foreign Affairs: A Faculty Panel, University of Notre Dame (2004)
“U.S. Foreign Policy and the Election,” Conscience in the Crossfire: Elections 2004, University of Notre Dame (2004)
“Roger and Me—15 Years Later,” Economics Club, University of Notre Dame (2004)
“Globalization, Capitalism, and Human Dignity,” International Summer Internships, University of Notre Dame (2004)
“Global Justice, the FTAA, and the Road to Miami,” March to Miami teach-in, University of Notre Dame (2003)
“Tarnishing the Golden Dome: The Decision to Split the Economics Department at the University of Notre Dame,” Indiana Conference, American Association of University Professors (2003)
“Capitalism and Industrialization in the Global Economy: Recognizing the Costs and Imagining Alternatives,” World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2003)
“Key Concepts in Marxian Theory,” Core Course (M. Brownstein and W. Arons), University of Notre Dame (2002)
“Teaching at the Margins,” Last Lecture Series, University of Notre Dame (2002)
“Contesting Globalization,” Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame (2002)
“Theories of Globalization,” Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame (2000)
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Against the Grain, KPFA, live interview (2005)
Against the Grain, KPFA, live interview (2004)
Living Room Radio, KPFA, live interview (2003)
Extension 720, WGN-Radio, two-hour live program on The Contemporary Relevance of Marxism (2000)
PH.D. DISSERTATIONS