Economics Department
Faculty
Ric Holt, Professor
Office: Taylor Hall 221
Phone: (541) 552-6784
FAX: (541) 552-6439
Email: rholt@sou.edu
Home Page: http://home.sou.edu/~rholt/
Education:
Post-doctoral Studies, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley 1988
Ph.D. University of Utah 1987
A.B. Occidental College 1976
Specialization:
Microeconomics, Game Theory, Regional and Local Economic Development, Environmental Economics, Economics and Public Policy, History of Economic Thought, Post Keynesian Economics
Teaching:
Principles of Microeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomics
Enviironmental Economics
Economics of Poverty, Discrimination and Public Policy
Economics Capstone Course and History of Economics Thought
Publications:
Books:
Quality of Life, Sustainability and Economic Development: State and Local Options, with Daphne T. Greenwood, M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming.
Environmental Post Keynesian Economics: Looking at a Sustainable World with Clive Spash and Steve Pressman, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aldershot, U.K, forthcoming.
Empirical Post Keynesian Economics: Looking at the Real World with Steven Pressman, M.E. Sharpe, 2006
The Changing Face of Economics: Conversations with Cutting Edge Economists, with David C. Colander and J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., University of Michigan Press, 2004 (National Book Award: American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title in 2006). Nobel Prize winner Vernon L. Smith: “…a must read for understanding the evolution of recent economics.”
A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics, with Steven Pressman, Routledge Press, U.K., 2001
Economics and its Discontents: Twentieth Century Dissenting Economists, with Steven Pressman, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aldershot, U.K., 1998.
Present Book Projects
Conversations with European Economists, with David C. Colander and J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., forthcoming
Post Keynesian Economics and Public Policy Issues, with Steven Pressman, forthcoming
Growth, Development and Quality of Life: Orthodox and Heterodox Perspectives, with Daphne T. Greenwood, University of Michigan Press, forthcoming
Articles and Chapters
1. “Quality of Life and Conventional Wisdom: John Kenneth Galbraith and Economic Development," Review of Political Economy, with Daphne T. Greenwood, forthcoming.
2. “Leading Heterodox Economists: Paul Davidson," with Barkley Rosser, Jr. Review of Political Economy, forthcoming.
3. “Banana Parable,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by William Darity, Macmillan Press, forthcoming.
4. “Post Keynesian Economics and Public Policy,” with Daphne T. Greenwood, edited by Richard Holt, Clive Spash, and Steve Pressman, Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
5. “Post Keynesian Economics and the Environment,” Environmental Post Keynesian Economics: Looking at a Sustainable World, edited by Richard Holt, Clive Spash and Steve Pressman, Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
6. “What is Post Keynesian Economics,” Macroeconomics: Honoring Ingrid Rima, edited by Steven Pressman, Mat Forstater and Gary Mongiovi, Macmillan Press, 2007.
7. "The Changing Face of Mainstream Economics," Review of Political Economy, 2005.
8. "Post Keynesian Economics and Sustainable Development," International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, Vol. X, 2005.
9. "Teaching Post Keynesian Economics to Undergraduate Students," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 26, No.1 Fall, 2003.
10. "The Literary Influences on Keynes's Writings," Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, Greenwood Press, 2004.
11. "The Literary Influences on John Kenneth Galbraith's Writings," Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, Greenwood Press, 2004.
12. "Keynesian Comparative Economics: The Iconoclastic Revisionism of Lynn Turgeon," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 62, No. 3, July, 2003.
13. "What is Post Keynesian Economics?" in A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics, Richard Holt and Steven Pressman, Routledge Press, 2001.
14. "A Look Ahead," in A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics, ed. Richard Holt and Steven Pressman, Routledge Press, 2001.
15. "The Dissent of Economists: A Response" History of Economics Review, No. 30, summer, 1999.
16. "Time," Routledge Encyclopedia of Political Economy, edited by Phil O'Hara, Routledge Press, 1999.
17. "Paul Davidson: The Truest Keynesian?" The Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 24, No.4, Fall, 1998.
18. "Paul Davidson's Economics," Working Paper No. 251, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute, September, 1998.
19. "William Vickrey’s Legacy: Innovative Policies for Social Concerns," The Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 24, No.1, winter 1998.
20. "Economics and its Discontents: An Introduction", Economics and its Discontents: Twentieth Century Dissenting Economists, co-edited with Steven Pressman, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aldershot, U.K., 1998.
21. "Post Keynesian School of Economics," Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics, edited by T. Cate, D. Colander, and G. Harcourt, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aldershot, U.K., 1997.
22. "Maurice Dobb as an Interpreter of the Classical Economists," in Heinz Kurz and Neri Salvadori, eds., The Elgar Companion to Classical Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Aldershot, U.K., 1998.
23. "The 1982 Reforms and the Employment Conditions of Mexican Women," in Aslanbeigui, Pressman and Summerfield, eds., Women in the Age of Economic Transformation, Routledge Press, 1994.
24. "Questions from Alternative Perspective,” in Economics by David Colander, 6th edition, Irwin-McGraw-Hill Press, 2005.
Book Reviews
1. Review of “Introduction to Post Keynesian Economics,” Review of Political Economy, forthcoming.
2. Review of “Why I, too, am not a Conservative,” The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
3. Review of “John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics,” The Eastern Economic Journal, forthcoming.
4. Review of “The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time,” co-authored with Shamsul Alam, Review of Political Economy, forthcoming.
5. Review of “Contemporary Post Keynesian Analysis,” Journal of Economic Issues, March 2006,
6. Review of "Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America," Review of Political Economy, U.K, Volume 14, November 2002.
7. Review of Wall Street Capitalism: The Theory of the Bond Holding Class," Eastern Economic Journal, Volume 28, 3, summer 2002.
8. Review of "50 Years A Keynesian and Other Essays: G.C. Harcourt," Review of Political Economy, U.K., Oct. 2005.
9. Review of "Economics, Values and Organization," The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 1413, 2002.
10. Review of "Evolution and Institutions: On Evolutionary Economics and the Evolution of Economics," The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 1414, 2002.
11. Review of "Controversies in Monetary Economics," Review of Political Economy, U.K., Vol. 9, No.3, 1997.
12. Review of "Unemployment, Imperfect Competition and Macroeconomics: Essays in the Post Keynesian Tradition," Review of Political Economy, U.K., Vol. 9, No. 1, 1997.
13. Review of "The Political Economy of Full Employment: Conservatism, Corporatism and Institutional Change," Review of Political Economy, U.K., Vol. 9, No. 1, 1997.
14. Review of "The Pathology of the U.S. Economy," Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 27, Number 3, Fall 1995.
15. Review of “The Economic Consequences of Immigration," The Eastern Economic Journal,
Vol. 18, No.2, spring 1992.
16. Review of "Guiding the Invisible Hand: Economic Liberalism and the State in Latin American History," The Journal of Economic History, March, 1991.
17. Review of "Capitalism and Arithmetic: The New Math of the 15th Century," The Sixteenth Century Journal,
Vol. 19, Number 3, Fall 1987.
18. Review of "The Politics of Insurgency: The Farmworker Movement in the 1960s," Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 19, Number 3, fall, 1987.
Professional Achievements:
Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 1988.
General Editor of Post Keynesian Thought, 1992 to 2004.
General Editor of the Journal of Undergraduate Research, 1994 to 1997.
Committee service work for the History of Economics Society, 1994-1995.
Committee service and Executive work for the Eastern Economic Association, 1994 to the present.
Presidential Search Committee, the Eastern Economic Association, 1996-1997.
Member of the International Honors Society for Economics, Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE).
Interviewed in the Journal of Radical Organization Theory, Vol. II, Number 1, June, 1996.
Full Member of the International Honors Society for Scientific Research, Sigma Xi, May, 2000.
Chartered Member, United States Society for Ecological Economics, 2000.
Full Member of the Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi, April, 2003.
Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2005.
Program Presentations:
1. Post Keynesian Economics and Environmental Policy, 4th International Conference: Developments in Economic Theory and Policy, Bilbao, Spain, 5th-6th July 2007.
2. Growth, Development and Quality of Life: Mainstream and Heterodox Approaches, International Conference of the Association for Pluralism in Economics, Salt Lake City, Utah, June, 2007.
3. Post Keynesian Economics and Public Policy, International Conference of the Association for Pluralism in Economics, Salt Lake City, Utah, June, 2007.
4. The Changing Face of Economics: The Role of Heterodox Economics in Changing the Direction of Mainstream Economics Today, International Conference of the Association for Pluralism in Economics, Salt Lake City, Utah, June, 2007.
5. Post Keynesian Economics and the Development of Public Policy, Eastern Economic Association, New York City, New York, February, 2007.
6. European Economics at a Crossroads, Eastern Economic Association, Philadelphia, March, 2006.
7. Post Keynesian Economics and the Environment, Eastern Economic Association, New York, March, 2005.
8. Post Keynesian Economics and Sustainable Development, Post Keynesian Workshop, University of Missouri at Kansas City, June 2004.
9. Hyman Minsky and the Mainstream, Eastern Economic Association, Washington DC, Feb. 2004
10. Empirical Work in Post Keynesian Economics, International Post Keynesian Workshop, University of Missouri at Kansas City, June 29, 2002.
11. Does Money Matter in the Long Run? Eastern Economic Association, Boston, March, 2002, co-authored with Hassan Pirasteh.
12. The Cutting Edge of Economics, Eastern Economic Association, Boston, March, 2002.
13. Bringing Real World Problems into the Classroom: A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics, Eastern Economic Association, New York, February, 2001.
14. The Iconoclastic Contributions to Economics of the Late Lynn Turgeon, the Eastern Economic Association, Washington D.C., February, 2001.
15. Post Keynesian Anti-Poverty Policy, the Eastern Economic Association, Washington D.C., March 2000.
16. Keynesian Comparative Economics of Lynn Turgeon, The Eastern Economic Association, Washington DC, March 2000.
17. Keynes, the Asian Financial Crisis and Full Employment, the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, March 12-14, 1999.
18. Lessons from Davidson's Monetary Theory, The Fifth Post Keynesian Workshop, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, June 25 - July 1, 1998.
19. Keynes and the Good Life, History of Economics Society, Montreal, Canada, June 19-22, 1998.
20. Looking Ahead: The Future of Post Keynesian Economics, Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New York City, February, 1988.
21. The Effects of Neo-Liberal Policies on Trade and Investment in Mexico since the 1980s, co-authored with Linda Wilcox Young, Latin American Studies Association, XX International Congress, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997.
22. The Use of Collaborative Learning in Economic Courses, co-authored with Hassan Pirasteh, Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 1997.
23. An Evaluation of William Vickrey’s Professional Writings for the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economics, Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 1997.
24. The Legacy of Hyman Minsky: Financial Instability Hypothesis and Social Values, Eastern Economic Association Meeting, Washington DC, April 1997.
25. What is Post Keynesian Economics? Presented at the Fourth Post Keynesian Workshop, June 28-July 3, 1996, University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
26. The European and American Post Keynesians, Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Boston, March 1996.
27. The 1982 Economic Reforms and the Employment Conditions of Mexican Women, the Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January1996.
28. Do Economic Programs Teach Economic Students to Think Critically?, Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New York, March 1995.
29. Schumpeter and Hayek on Walras’s Equilibrium Theory, History of Economics Society, Annual Meeting, Boston, June 1994.
30. The Argument from Design: Philosophy’s Role in Economics, Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Boston, March 1994.
31. The Golden Gadfly: John Kenneth Galbraith, Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Boston, March 1994.
32. A Critique of Hayek’s Theory of Liberty and Equality, Kress Society at Harvard University, November 18, 1993.
33. A Comparison of the Structures of California and Ohio Migrant Labor Markets, Ohio Association of Economists and Political Scientists, 50th Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, October 1990.
34. The Philosophical Foundations of Hyman Minsky’s Writings, Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, April 1990.
35. Kaldor’s Contribution to Economic Reform in Eastern Europe, Ohio Association of Economists and Political Scientists, 49th Annual Meeting, Youngstown, Ohio, October 1989.
36. The Consequence of a New Bracero Program in California Agriculture, Midwest Economic Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 1989.
37. The Effects of Ending the Guest-Worker Program under Public Law 78 on California Agricultural Growers, Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, New York, December 1988.
Manuscript Evaluation: Journal Submissions
I am frequently asked by editors of refereed journals to evaluate manuscripts for possible publication. Some of the journals include:
Eastern Economics Journal, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal of Economic History, Review of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Education and the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
Membership in Professional Societies:
Eastern Economic Association
History of Economic Society
American Economic Association
United States Society for Ecological Economics
Elected Honor Societies:
Omicron Delta Epsilon (Honor Society for Economics)
Sigma Xi (Honor Society for Scientific Research)
Phi Kappa Phil (Honor Society for Academic Excellence)
