Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd
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Born	(1919-12-07)December 7, 1919 San Francisco,California, U.S.
Died	September 8, 2017(2017-09-08) (aged 97) Bologna,Italy

Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (December 7, 1919 – September 8, 2017)^[1][2] was an American political economist, economic historian and political activist.

From the late 1940s to the late 1990s, Dowd taught atCornell University, theUniversity of California, Berkeley and other universities. He has authored books that criticize capitalism in general, and US capitalism in particular.

He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of economic history for the academic year 1959–1960.^[3]

Many of his writings and audio transcripts are available on his website.^[4]

Dowd was the son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father. The strong dislike for each side of the family for the other side led him during his youth to embrace an antireligious attitude.^[5]

Dowd claimed to be "non-religious" without saying if he was anagnostic oratheist.

Dowd was one of the nominees of thePeace and Freedom Party forVice President in the1968 US presidential election. He agreed to be on the ticket inNew York in order to prevent the selection ofJerry Rubin.^[6] The party's presidential candidate that year wasBlack PantherEldridge Cleaver, who finished a distant fifth in the election.

During the protest-occupation ofWillard Straight Hall at Cornell University on April 19, 1969, Dowd was sympathetic with the efforts of the  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who organized continuous picketing that day in front of the Hall's main entrance, in support of the African-American protesters in the building.^[7]  With Professor Dowd's encouragement, the picketing was replaced around midnight, with about 20 volunteers who circled the building in a quiet vigil until morning.  Dowd recommended selecting the volunteers "for their ability to keep calm in a crisis situation."^[8]

Dowd was a sponsor of theWar Tax Resistance project, which practiced and advocatedtax resistance as a form of protest against theVietnam War.^[9]

Dowd was the faculty sponsor of the West Tennessee Voters Project inFayette County, Tennessee, that inspired a sizable number of Cornell students to become more active incivil rights work in the South one year after the gruesome murders of activistsAndrew Goodman,Michael Schwerner andJames Chaney inPhiladelphia, Mississippi in 1964.

• Step by step (1965)
• Modern Economic Problems in Historical Perspective (1965)
• Thorstein Veblen: A Critical Reappraisal; Lectures and Essays Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of Veblen's Birth (1965)
• America's role in the world economy:the challenge to orthodoxy (1966)
• The Twisted Dream: Capitalist Development in the United States Since 1776 (1974)ISBN 978-0-87626-881-0^[10][11][12] 2nd edition (1977)^[13]
• Waste of Nations: Dysfunction in the World Economy (1989)ISBN 978-0-8133-0810-4
• U.S. Capitalist Development Since 1776: Of, By, and for Which People? (1993)
• Blues for America: A Critique, a Lament, and Some Memories (1997)ISBN 978-0-85345-982-8
• Against the Conventional Wisdom: A Primer for Current Economics Controversies and Proposals (1997)ISBN 978-0-8133-2796-9
• Capitalism and Its Economics: A Critical History (2000)ISBN 978-0-7453-1643-7
• Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen (2002)ISBN 978-0-7453-1782-3
• At the Cliffs Edge: World Problems and U.S. Power (Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, 2007)^[14]
• Inequality and the Global Economic Crisis (2009)

• Official site of Doug Dowd

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