David Patterson Ellerman (born 14 March 1943) is a philosopher and author who works in the fields of economics and political economy, social theory and philosophy, quantum mechanics, and in mathematics. He has written extensively on
workplace democracy based on a modern treatment of the labor theory of property and the theory of
inalienable rights as rights based on de facto inalienable capacities.
Education
Ellerman was born 14 March 1943.[1]
He received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965.[1] He went on to
Boston University for his graduate work, receiving an MA in philosophy of science in 1967, an MA in economics in 1968, and a doctorate in mathematics in 1972.[1][2] His PhD thesis was titled Sheaves Of Relational Structures And Ultraproducts, and was advised by
Rohit Jivanlal Parikh.[2][3]
New Foundations for Information Theory: Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy. SpringerNature, 2021.
ISBN9783030865528.
Putting Jurisprudence Back into Economics: What is Really Wrong in Today's Neoclassical Theory. SpringerNature, 2021.
ISBN9783030760960.
Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy. SpringerNature, 2021.
ISBN9783030626761.
The Uses of Diversity: Essays in Polycentricity. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.
ISBN1793623732.
Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance. University of Michigan Press, 2005.
ISBN0472021761.[5]
Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life: Essays in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995.
ISBN0847679322.[6]
Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy. Cambridge MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992.
ISBN1557863091.[7]
Park, Susan (2009). "Review: Ask the Experts? The World Bank and International Development Lending in the Twenty-First Century". Review of International Political Economy. 16 (2): 329–349.
doi:
10.1080/09692290902718494.
JSTOR27756161.
S2CID153960296.
Nutzinger, Hans G. (2006). "Review". Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft [Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics]. 162 (3): 540–542.
JSTOR40752601.
Hillyard, Daniel; Hall, Joshua C. (2007). "David Ellerman: Helping People Help Themselves: From The World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance". Knowledge, Technology & Policy. 20 (3): 203–205.
doi:
10.1007/s12130-007-9026-4.
ISSN0897-1986.
S2CID108728608.
Schuh, G. Edward (December 2008). "Book review". The Journal of Socio-Economics. 37 (6): 2566–2567.
doi:
10.1016/j.socec.2008.05.006.
^Nutzinger, Hans G. (August 1996). "Review of Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life". Kyklos. 49 (3): 472–473.
doi:
10.1111/j.1467-6435.1996.tb01407.x.
Smith, Stephen C. (December 1994). "Property and Contract in Economics". Journal of Comparative Economics. 19 (3): 463–466.
doi:
10.1006/jcec.1994.1115.