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Stephen A. Resnick

Born

October 24, 1938

Died

January 2, 2013

(aged 74)

Academic background

(B.S., 1960)

(Ph.D., 1964)

Influences

Academic work

School or

tradition

Institutions

(1965–71)

(1971–73)

(1973–2013)

Notable

ideas

Stephen Alvin Resnick

(

; October 24, 1938 – January 2, 2013) was an

American

He was well known for his work (much of it

written together with

) on

, and

. His work, along with that of Wolff, is

especially associated with a post-

perspective on

Biography

[

]

Resnick earned a B.S. in economics from the

1960. He received his Ph.D. in 1964 from the

. His dissertation was an

of the European

His early work (during his tenure at

between

1965 and 1971) was with

and focused on issues of

and

After a brief period at the

(1971–1973), Resnick

began teaching at the Economics Department of the

in 1973. He began working with

in this period, and

from then until Resnick's death they published numerous articles and books

together, formulating a non

, class analytical approach. Topics

included Marxian theory and

, overdetermination, radical

economics,

, social formations, the

, and comparing and contrasting Marxian and non-Marxian economic

theories.

Resnick's work with Wolff took

and

as its point of departure and developed a very subtle reading of

Volumes II and III in their influential

Knowledge and Class

. In

Resnick's work, Marxian class analysis entails the detailed study of the

conditions of existences of concrete forms of performance, appropriation, and

distribution of

. While there could be an infinite number of forms of surplus appropriation, the Marxist

canon refers to ancient (independent),

, and

processes.

In 1989, Resnick joined efforts with a group of colleagues, ex- and then current students to launch

, an academic journal that aims to create a platform for rethinking and developing Marxian concepts and

theories within economics as well as other fields of social inquiry. He remained a member of the editorial board of

the journal until 1994, and continued thereafter to serve as a member of the advisory board of the journal.

Resnick continued to teach graduate seminars and undergraduate courses and direct dissertation research in economics

at the

until 2013. He received multiple teaching awards and taught classes in

economic theory, economic development, and economic history. Resnick listed his primary research interests as

and

Resnick died on January 2, 2013, as a result of leukemia.

Bibliography

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]

Notable works of Stephen Resnick include:

, & Resnick, S. (1969). A model of an agrarian economy with nonagricultural activities. The American

Economic Review, 59(4), 493–506.

Richard D. Wolff and Stephen A. Resnick.

Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical

(Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore,

1987).

Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff.

Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy

(University

of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987).

, Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff.

Class and Its Others

(Minnesota University Press,

Minneapolis, 2000).

J.K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff.

Re/Presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Marxism

(Duke University Press, Durham NC, 2001).

Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff.

Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR

(Routledge,

NY, 2002).

Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff.

New Departures in Marxian Theory (Economics as Social Theory

(Routledge,

NY, 2006).

Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff.

Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian

(The

MIT Press, 2012).

Videos

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Round table with Resnick, Katzner, Bowles

Remarks of Richard D. Wolff