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Written by Steven Dowd
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DOUG DOWD Author and Lecturer in International Economics at Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy. He was a national figure in the movement to end the Vietnam War and was Chair of the Economics Department at Cornell University in the 1960s. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Cruz; San Jose State and San Francisco Universities. He was a recipient of Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and is the author of several books including The Waste of Nations: Dysfunction in the World Economy, The Twisted Dream: Capitalist Development in the United States Since 1776, and Modern Economic Problems in Historical Perspective.
"The 80th anniversary of the birth of Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd was in December 1999. His long and distinguished career has been characterized by a fruitful marriage of scholarship and activism. Firmly on the political Left, Dowd belongs within an indigenous American tradition of dissenting radicalism whose most famous?perhaps notorious?representatives are Thorstein Veblen and C. Wright Mills. Taking care neither to ?mumble? like the former nor ?shout? like the latter,1 Dowd has been an articulate and persistent critic of the American experience for more than 40 years, engaging both students and the wider public. In 1997, he published his semiautobiographical economic history of twentieth-century America [Dowd 1997a]. It exemplifies Dowds scholarly engagement in public life, meshing together the personal, the professional, and the political."
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