- Professor Emeritus
- Department of Economics
- Email: mcintyre@uri.edu
- Office Location: 302c Lippitt Hall
Biography
I joined the URI faculty in 1985 and have been Professor of Economics since 1997. I retired in June 2025 but continued to teach in Economics and Honors. At URI I had several positions beyond professing: directing the University Honors Program, chairing Economics, study abroad in Cuba most prominently. I also write and edit articles and books. I have been involved in international education and been a fellow or guest at many universities in France, Russia, and Cuba over the last 25 years.
In Fall 2026 I will teach Ecn 305, “Competing Economic Traditions,” and HPR 124, “Evolutionary and Revolutionary Socialism through film.” I received the URI Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997.
I live in Wakefield RI. I have five children/stepchildren, and ten grandchildren. Outside of writing and teaching I like to cook, play golf, garden, read, and enjoy life in South County Rhode Island.
Research
History of Economic Thought
Economic History
International Economics
Labor-Management Relations and Labor Standards
Economics Pedagogy
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1989
BA, Economics and Political Science, University of Rhode Island, 1979
Selected Publications
Recent and highly selective publications
Books
Knowledge, Class and Economics: Marxism without guarantees. Edited and with contributions by Ted Burczak, Robert Garnett and Richard McIntyre. 2018. Routledge
Are Worker Rights Human Rights? 2008, University of Michigan Press.
Articles (very recent and selected)
“Teaching Technological Unemployment through Role Play: The Luddite Rebellion,” Review of Radical Political Economics, 57:3, 437-444, 2025
“Class conflict,” with M. Hillard in M. Ali and A. Davis, Radical Political Economics: Principles, Perspectives and Post-Capitalist Futures, Routledge, 3-16, 2025
“Stakeholderism: the folly of a kinder, gentler American capitalism,” with M. Hillard, New Labor Forum. 32:1. Winter 2023
“Democratic Socialism,” 2023. Rethinking Marxism. 35:1, 24-35.
“New Directions in Public Housing: What Works, What Doesn’t” with S. Pearson-Merkowitz, South Kingstown Public Housing Authority
“Labor standards, factory inspection, and fast fashion” in The Fashion Reader, 3rd edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2021
Work in Progress
“US Capitalist Class Exceptionalism” (with Michael Hillard)
“The US was an outlier nation before Trump”
Podcast: Burning down our house (with Michael Hillard)