Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd

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Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (born 1919 ) is an American political economist, economic historian and political activist.

1 Academic career
2 Family
3 Electoral candidate
4 Bibliography
5 Further reading

[edit] Academic career

From the late 1940s until the late 1990s he taught at Cornell University, UC Berkeley and other universities. A self avowed "lefty", he has authored books that criticize capitalism in general, and US capitalism in particular.

Now in his eighties and retired, he continues to publish and has for many years offered a free class in San Francisco, California where he lives half the year. He spends the other six months in Italy where he also teaches at university. Many of his writings and audio transcripts are available on his web site: www.dougdowd.org

[edit] Family

He is the son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father. The strong dislike for each side of the family for the other side lead him to embrace an anti-religious attitude during his youth. He claims to be "non-religious" but its not clear whether he is agnostic or atheistic in his belief. He was a young man during the US Depression years, and lived through and participated in most of the major social and political events over the decades. He was a pilot for the United States during WW II, for example. His teaching and writings are peppered with colorful anecdotes, and language, which add a very personal touch to his teaching.

[edit] Electoral candidate

He was third-party candidate (Peace and Freedom Party) for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 U.S. presidential election. He was the running mate of Eldridge Cleaver.

[edit] Bibliography

Modern Economic Problems in Historical Perspective (1965)
Thorstein Veblen: A Critical Reappraisal; Lectures and Essays Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of Veblen's Birth (1965)
America's role in the world economy:the challenge to orthodoxy (1966)
The twisted dream: capitalist development in the United States since 1776 (1974) ISBN 0-87626-881-5
Waste of Nations: Desfunction in the World Economy (1989) ISBN 0-8133-0810-0
Blues for America: A Critique, a Lament, and Some Memories (1997) ISBN 0-85345-982-7
Against the Conventional Wisdom: A Primer for Current Economics Controversies and Proposals (1997) ISBN 0-8133-2796-2
Capitalism and Its Economics: A Critical History (2000) ISBN 0-7453-1643-3
Understanding Capitalism : Critical Analysis from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen (2002) ISBN 0-7453-1782-0
Getting Haiti Right This Time : The U.S. and the C (2004)