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Thaddeus Antonius Gerardus Maria "Geert"Reuten (16 April 1946 – 29 July 2025) was a Dutch economist and politician. On behalf of theSocialist Party (SP) he was a senator in the First Chamber (upper house) of the Dutch parliament from June 2007 till June 2015 and again from 26 June 2018 to 11 June 2019. Reuten also taught economics at theUniversity of Amsterdam, and was internationally recognized as an expert onMarx andHegel.
Reuten was born inHeerlen on 16 April 1946. He studied economics and sociological economics atErasmus University Rotterdam and atBirkbeck College of theUniversity of London. Reuten graduated in 1988 at theUniversity of Amsterdam (UvA). From 1977, he was lecturer and later professor at the UvA. From 2002 to 2014, he was director of the Master of Economics at the same university. His prominent workThe Capitalist System is now also used as a textbook in University of Amsterdam for advanced BSc and MSc courses.
He joined the Socialist Party and served as the party's economic adviser in the House from that year. In the first election in 2007 he was elected to the Senate. He was sworn in on 12 June 2007. His term ended on 9 June 2015. Reuten was also active in the alter-association Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens,ATTAC.
Reuten died on 29 July 2025 inWesthoek, at the age of 79.[1][2]
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