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Ian J. Seda-Irizarry
Department of Economics
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
524 West 59th Street, 3404N
New York, NY 10019
[email protected]
Personal
Born on May 3rd, 1979 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Language Proficiency: Spanish (native), English (fluent)
Education
BA School of Business, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus
(1997- 2002)
MA (all but thesis) in Economics, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Campus (2003-2005)
MA Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2010
Ph.D Economics , University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2013
Positions Held
Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2013-present
Visiting Summer Instructor, Boğaziçi University-Istanbul, 2012-2014
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bucknell University, 2012-2013
Instructor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2011-2012
Instructor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2008-2011
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Teaching Interests
Primary: Political Economy, History of Economic Thought, Economic
History
Secondary: Development, Macroeconomics
Research Interests
Accumulation and Finance
Theories of Economic Crisis
Political Economy of Cultural Production
Cooperatives and Alternative Workplace Organization
Theories of Value and Price
Fellowships
Spring 2011: Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) Dissertation Fellowship
2005-06: Diversity Fellowship, University of Massachusetts
Organizations
Eastern Economic Association (member)
Association for Economic and Social Analysis (member)
World Association for Political Economy (member)
Union of Radical Political Economics (member)
International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (member)
Teaching Experience
John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY, Assistant Professor
Intermediate Political Economy, Spring 2014, Fall 2014
Understanding U.S. Economic Data, Spring 2014
Introduction to Economics and Global Capitalism, Fall 2013, Spring 2014,
Fall 2014, Spring 2015
Economics in Historical Perspectives, Fall 2013, Spring 2015
Bucknell University-Lewisburg, Visiting Assistant Professor
Political Economy of Development in Latin America, Spring 2013
Economic Principles and Problems, Fall 2012, Spring 2013
History of Economic Thought, Fall 2012
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Boğaziçi University-Istanbul, Visiting Instructor
History of Sociological Conceptualization: Karl Marx, Summer 2015
History of the Marxist Tradition, Summer 2014
International Political Economy, Summer 2013
Introduction to Political Economy, Summer 2012
John Jay College of Criminal Justice-City University of New York, Instructor
Introduction to Economics (online), Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall
2012
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Instructor
Marxian Economics (online), Summer 2011
International Economy, Spring 2010
Introduction to Macroeconomics, Summer 2009
Introduction to Macroeconomics (online), Summer 2010
Intermediate Microeconomics, Summer 2008
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Political Economy, Spring 2009, Fall 2010
Marxian Economics, Fall 2009
Introduction to Microeconomics, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2009
Introduction to Macroeconomics, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008
Writing in Economics, Fall 2006
University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Economics, Fall 2004, Spring 2005
Intro Statistics, Fall 2003
Math Methods I, Fall 2003, Summer 2004, Fall 2004
Math Methods II, Spring 2004
Guest Lectures
Lecture on “Puerto Rico’s Economic Development” at John Jay College, in a course on
Global Economic Development, taught by Dr. Joan Hoffman (Spring, 2014).
Lecture on “Capitalism and Urban Development” at John Jay College, in a course on
Urban Sociology, taught by Prof. Ilgin Erdem (Fall, 2013).
Lecture on “Centralized and Decentralized Economic Planning Models” at Boğaziçi
University, Turkey, in a course on Contemporary World Economy, taught by Prof.
Cem Oyvat (Summer, 2011).
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Intensive Seminar on the History of Economic Thought, at the Social Thought and
Political Economy (STPEC) Department at UMass/Amherst, taught by Prof. Katherine
Mallory (Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010).
Lecture on “Sraffa's 'Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities'” at the
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, in a graduate course on PostKeynesian Models, taught by Dr. Juan Lara (Spring, 2005).
Independent Studies Supervised
The Marxist Dialectical Method (Spring 2010)
The Political Economy of Development in Latin America (Fall 2014)
Special Topics in Economics (Spring 2015)
Academic Writing
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Book Chapters
“Primitive Accumulation” (with Rajesh Bhattacharya), in Olsen et all eds., Handbook
of Marxian Economics, Routledge, forthcoming, 2015.
“Re-centering Class in Critical Theory: A Tribute to Stephen A. Resnick (19382013)” (with Rajesh Bhattacharya) forthcoming in the Review of Radical Political
Economics.
“Revisiting Resnick and Wolff’s Reading of Overdetermination,” Rethinking
Marxism, Vol.25, No 3, 305-310, 2013.
“Crisis, Class, and Cooperatives: Some comments on the USW-Mondragón alliance,”
Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp 374-383, July 2011.
“The Role of Finance in the Latest Capitalist Crisis” (with Özgür Orhangazi), in
Kawano et all eds., Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and
Planet. Center for Popular Economics, pp 65-74, June 2010.
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Book Reviews
Review of “America Beyond Capitalism”, by Gar Alperovitz, Capital and Class,
2013, Vol 37, No 2, 325-328.
Review of “Global Economic Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and
Resistance” by David McNally, Ambito de Encuentros, 2013, Vol. 6,
No 1.
Review of “Dirigentes y Dirigidos: para leer los Cuadernos de la cárcel de Antonio
Gramsci” by Manuel S. Almeida, Rethinking Marxism, March 2012, Vol. 24, No 2,
324-326.
Review of “Un resumen completo de el Capital de Marx” by Diego Guerrero,
Cuadernos de Economía, 2011, Vol. 30, 2nd semester, No 55, 275-280.
Review of “Reclaiming Marx’s Capital” by Andrew Kliman, Critique of Political
Economy, 2011, Vol. 1.
Review of “Capitalism Hits the Fan” by Richard D. Wolff , Cuadernos de Economía,
2010 Vol. 29, 1st semester, No 52, 237-243.
Review of “New Departures in Marxian Theory” by Stephen Resnick and Richard
Wolff, Review of Radical Political Economics, December 2009, Vol. 41, No. 4, 581585.
Other Papers
“Un Vistazo Histórico y Metodológico al Problema de la Transformación de Valores a
Precios de Producción,” Serie Notas de Clase, Unidad de Investigaciones
Económicas; April, 2007 (Available at
http://economia.uprrp.edu/notas%20de%20clase%2012.pdf )
Work in Progress
“Making Sense of Financialization: Neoliberalism and the Feudalization of Capital”
(with Rajesh Bhattacharya)
“Financialization: A Critique of the ‘Autonomization of Capital’ Thesis”
(with Rajesh Bhattacharya)
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“Discourses of theft: Piracy and Exploitation in the Music Recording Industry”
(with Phil Kozel)
“Living Labor, Exteriority, and Dependency: The Marxism of Enrique Dussel”
Popular/Semi-Academic Writing
“Pablo Iglesias y Podemos en Nueva York,” Claridad, March, 2015.
“La distribución el ingreso,” El Nuevo Día, June 14, 2014.
“La ceguera económica sí está bien distribuida,” Claridad, May 29-June 4, 2014.
“Cooperativismo y Ley Marcora para Puerto Rico” (with Heriberto Martínez-Otero)
Available at
http://www.80grados.net/cooperativismo-y-la-ley-marcora-para-puerto-rico/ .
Republished in Claridad, August 1-7, 2013.
“El Minotauro Global: Estados Unidos como centro de la crisis mundial,” Claridad,
June 21-27, 2012.
“Microcrédito y Pobreza,” Claridad, June 14-20, 2012.
“A diez años del 11 de septiembre: Los ejercicios imperiales y la crisis del sistema,”
Claridad, September 8-14, 2011.
“40 años del Cheetah: Un vistazo general del antes y después del golpe de gracia
salsero,” Claridad, August 25-31, 2011. Republished in two parts in Melómanos
Documentos, No 55-56, 2012.
“Kapitalizm Sonrası Düşe Bir Katkı: Katılımcı Ekonomi,” Birikim, No 268-269, pp.
45-48, August-September, 2011.
“Oscilaciones ideológicas en debate 'intervención vs liberalización',” Diálogo Digital,
August 15th, 2011. Available at: http://dialogodigital.com/index.php/Oscilacionesideologicas-en-debate-intervencion-vs-liberalizacion.html
“La ideología de los literatos de la economía,” Revista Amauta, August 14th, 2011.
Available at: http://revista-amauta.org/2011/08/la-ideologia-de-los-literatos-eneconomia/
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“Sociedad, Desarrollo y Conocimiento,” Claridad, July 21-27, 2011.
“Hay economistas y hay economistas,” El Nuevo Día, versión cibernética, June 15,
2011. Available at: http://www.elnuevodia.com/columnahayeconomistasyhayeconomistas-993191.html
“Keynes y el grito de histeria capitalista,” Claridad, April 28- May 4, 2011.
“Adam Smith no está muerto,” El Nuevo Día, versión cibernética, April 21, 2011.
Available at:
http://www.elnuevodia.com/Xstatic/endi/template/imprimir.aspx?id=947368&t=2
“La mujer y la crisis en el mercado laboral,” Claridad, April 14-20, 2011.
“A Contribution to the Post-Capitalist Imaginary” (in Turkish), Siyaset Kahvesi,
January 8th, 2011. Available at:
http://www.siyasetkahvesi.com/sayfa.php?ole=yazi&yzid=982
“¿Marx dónde estás?¿Entre rugidos o maullidos?” (with Manuel Marqués Bonilla),
Claridad, December 16-22, 2010.
“El capitalismo depredador a tres años de su crisis,” Claridad, August 2-8, 2010.
“Entrevista a Richard Wolff: Estados Unidos y la Crisis Capitalista,” Claridad, July
29- August 4, 2010. Republished in the journal Trabajadores of the Universidad
Obrera de México, Vol. 78, pp 12-16, May-June, 2010.
“Paul Samuelson: Obituario tardío de un cómplice,” Claridad, March 18-24, 2010.
“La anarquía capitalista y el sufrimiento de las mayorías,” Claridad, December
10-16, 2009.
“¿La ilusión de la recuperación?,” Claridad, August 13-19, 2009.
“Capitalismo Neoliberal y Capitalismo Regulado: Dos caras de la misma moneda,”
Claridad, July 23-29, 2009.
“El Plan Obama y las Representaciones de la Crisis Capitalista,” Claridad, March 411, 2009.
“Keynes, Smith y el Síntoma de la Crisis Financiera,” Claridad, October 23-29, 2008.
“El Problemático Discurso de la Eficiencia Económica,” Claridad, December, 2007.
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“Sobre Economistas, sus Modelos y el Futuro de Puerto Rico,” Claridad, October,
2006
Conferences/Talks/Workshops
“Financialization: Autonomization or Feudalization of Capital?,” presented at the
Eastern Economic Association’s annual meeting at Boston, March 9, 2014.
“History, Common Sense, and Method: Radical Political Economy and the
Critique of Mainstream Economics,” presented at the Eastern Economic
Associations annual meeting at Boston, March 7, 2014.
“Crisis Economics: How The Big Shots Gamble With Your Well Being,”
presented at the annual John Jay College of Criminal Justice Open House, New
York, November, 10, 2013.
“Worker Cooperatives: Key Ingredients for Viability,” discussant in panel with
Erik Olsen, Virginie Pérotin, Christopher Gunn, Al Campbell, and Robin Hahnel,
presented at the Allied Social Science Association Annual Conference in San
Diego, California, January 4-6, 2013.
“Dándole sentido a la financialización: El Neoliberalismo y la Feudalización del
Capital,” presented at the IV Encuentro Internacional de la Economía Política y
Derechos Humanos, at the Universidad Popular Madres Plaza de Mayo, in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 4-6, 2012.
“Democracy at the Workplace: Are Coops a Solution to the Capitalist Crisis?,”
presentation as part of the Economic Justice Speakers Series held at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, New York, March 19, 2012.
“After the Crisis, Is a New Deal Possible? Do We Want One?,” a roundtable
discussion with Geert Dhondt, Mathieu Duffour, Josh Mason and Eric Pineault
presented at the Left Forum at Pace University, New York, March 17, 2012.
“Making Sense of Financialization: Neoliberalism and the Feudalization of
Capital” (with Rajesh Bhattacharya), presented at the Eastern Economic
Associations annual meeting at Boston, March 11, 2012.
“Politics and Ideology in Economics Pedagogy,” chair in panel presented at 3rd
International Conference of the International Confederation of Associations for
Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) presented at UMass/Amherst, Nov 11-13,
2011.
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“The handyman economist: how economists save the world (and capitalism),”
presented at the 2nd annual International Conference in Political Economy,
Istanbul University, Beyazit, May 20-22, 2011.
“Is the cooperative model a solution to capitalism's crisis?,” accepted at the 7th
Historical Materialism Conference, Nov. 11-14, 2010, London.
“Cooperatives, Class, and Value Theory”, panel at Left Forum with David
Ruccio, Bruce Roberts, David Kristjanson and Stephen Healy. Pace University,
NYC, March 20th, 2010.
“The Discourse of Development during Crisis in Puerto Rico,” presented at
the 7th Rethinking Marxism Conference, Nov. 5-8, 2009, UMass/Amherst
“The Effect of the Crisis on Economic Thought,” a roundtable discussion with J.
Mohan Rao, A. Razmi and J.P. de Souza presented at the 2nd annual Faculty and
Graduate Student Conference at the Political Economy Research Institute in
Amherst, Massachusetts, May 2nd, 2009.
“Exploring Root Causes and Solutions to the Financial Meltdown and Economic
Crisis” (with Özgür Orhangazi), presented at the First National Forum on the
Solidarity Economy, March 19-22, 2009-UMass/ Amherst.
“Wage Stagnation and the Current Financial Crisis: A Historical View,” talk
presented for the Northampton Living Wage Coalition in Northampton, MA,
February 19th, 2009
“Salsa y Kontrol: A Class Analysis of Latin Music in NY,” Association for
Economic and Social Analysis Workshop, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, May 7, 2008
Media Interviews
teleSUR for a documentary on “Alan Greenspan, Neoliberalism and the Washington
Consensus,” May 22nd, 2014.
WMUA 91.1 FM for the program Cancion Urgente. Interview on “Salsa in Jazz and Jazz
in Salsa,” April 25th, 2012.
KPFA 94.1 FM for the program Against the Grain. Interview about “Cooperatives under
Capitalism,” December 21, 2011. Available at:
http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/510/id/511950/wed-12-21-11-co-ops-undercapitalism
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WMUA 91.1 FM for the program Cancion Urgente. Interview about “The Development
of Latin Music in NYC,” February 9th, 2009.
Professional Services
Editorial Board, Rethinking Marxism, July 2010-present.
Referee, Revista Cuadernos de Economía, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Referee, Research in Political Economy
Book Proposal Reviewer, Routledge
Editorial Board, Herencia Latina, August 2004-present.
Departmental Services
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Faculty Senate, 2014
Appeals Committee, 2014
Hiring Committee, 2013
Economics Department Newsletter, Co-editor, Fall 2013-Spring 2015
Econmic Justice Speaker Series, Coordinator, Fall 2013-Spring 2015
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Graduate Student Representative- Hiring Committee, 2009-2010
Student Representative- Graduate Studies Committee, Fall 2009
Co-Chair- Economics Graduate Student Organization, 2006-2007
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References
Professor Emeritus Richard D. Wolff
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003
(646) 336-8443
[email protected]
Professor Agustín Laó-Montes
Department of Sociology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003
(413) 219-6043
[email protected]
Professor Argeo Quiñones
Department of Economics
University of Puerto Rico
Río Piedras, PR 00931
(787)-640-1474
[email protected]
Last Updated: April, 2015
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