Richard McIntyre

  • Professor
  • 802 Chafee SSC
  • Phone: 401.874.4126
  • Email: mcintyre@uri.edu
  • Office Location: Fall 24 Office Hours: T 3:30-4:30, W 2:30-3:30, and by appointment
    802 Chafee Social Science Center or https://rhody.webex.com/meet/mcintyreuri.edu
    University of Rhode Island
    Kingston, RI 02881

Biography

I am Professor of Economics. I was economics department chair from 2015-2020, Associate Director of the URI Honors Program from 2003-2006, and Director from 2006-2013. From 2015-2020 I co-directed URI Study Abroad programs in Cuba. I edit the New Political Economy book series for Routledge Press  

My teaching and research is in the history of economic thought, international and labor economics, and economic pedagogy. In Fall 24 I will teach “Competing Economic Traditions” and “Democracy in Peril,” the course accompanying the Fall URI Honors Colloquium. I received the URI Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997.

I will present “US Capitalist Class Exceptionalism and Why the US is an Outlier Nation” and chair the panel “Re/membering AESA History” at the Association for Economic and Social Analysis conference at UMass-AMherst this Fall. Current working papers include “Class Conflict” with Michael Hillard, forthcoming in Radical Political Economics: Principles, Perspectives, and Post-Capitalist Futures (Routledge, 2024), “Financialization and US capitalist class exceptionalism” and “Teaching technological unemployment through role play” both presented at the Eastern Economics Association meetings in Boston this March. The latter is forthcoming in the Review of Radical Political Economics.

I have lectured at the University of Le Havre, Euromed Marseille École de Management (now KEDGE Business School), Novgorod State University, the Université de Lyon II, and École Normale Superieure de Cachan (now École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay), where I was a visiting research professor Sept.-Dec. 2002, as well as at many universities and colleges in the US. I was in residence as the holder of the “Chair of the Americas” at the Institut des Ameriques-Rennes, University of Rennes 2 in Spring 2017.

I live in Wakefield RI with my wife Deborah Barber. We have five children and ten grandchildren.

Research

History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Contemporary Heterodox Economics; 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 (since 2008) and Selected Publications

Books

Knowledge, Class and Economics: Marxism without guarantees. Edited and with contributions by Ted Burczak, Robert Garnett and Richard McIntyre, Routledge, 2018

Are Worker Rights Human Rights? (2008, University of Michigan Press.)

 

Articles

“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, for South Kingstown Housing Authority and RI Foundation, 2023.

“Labor standards, factory inspection, and fast fashion” in The Fashion Reader, 3rd edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2021

“The Development of Social Economy in France since 1945.” Forum for Social Economics. 2018. 47:2, 253-261.

“Marxian Theories of the Labor Process: From Marx to Braverman” and “Marxian Labor Process Theory Since Braverman”, in Handbook of Marxian Political Economy, edited by Brennan, Kristjianson-Gural, Mulder, and Olsen. London: Routledge, 2017. 180-197

“Labor Militance and the New Deal: Some Lessons for Today,” in Sheila D. Collins and Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, When Government Helped: Learning from the Successes and Failures of the New Deal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

“Capitalist Class Agency and the New Deal Order: Against the Notion of a Limited Capital-Labor Accord” with Michael Hillard, Review of Radical Political Economics, 45:2, June 2013, won best article award for volume 45 .

“Radical Labor Economics, Labor History, and Employment Relations: The State of the Conversation” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 9:4, Winter 2012

“From Workers Rights to Workers Appropriation: Response to Joseph McCartin,” International Labor and Working Class History, 80 Fall 2011: 197-202

“Shopping avec Octave,” in A-P Durand, ed. Frederic Beigbeder, Cahiers de recherche des instituts néerlandais de langue et de littérature française, 2008