Richard McIntyre
rmc8875u@postoffice.uri.edu

 

Richard McIntyre Professor of Economics and Director of the Honors Program, PhD, University of Massachusetts, 1989.  Professor McIntyre has lectured at Novgorod State University, the Université de Lyon II, and École Normale Superieure de Cachan, where he was a visiting researcher in 2002, as well as at many universities and colleges in the US.

 

Professor McIntyre


 

He will give a series of lectures in spring 2008 at Euromed Marseille École de Management. Recent publications include articles in the Journal of Economic Issues, Human Rights Human Welfare, Rethinking Marxism, Challenge, Économies et Institutions, and in several edited collections.  His book, Are Worker Rights Human Rights? will be published in 2008 by the University of Michigan Press. Professor McIntyre’s current research and teaching interests include Economics Education, Heterodox Economics, International Political Economy, and National and International Labor Standards. As Honors Program Director he manages the university’s honors curriculum and the Office of National Scholarship Advising, and organizes the Honors Colloquium, Rhode Island’s premier public lecture series.  He also edits the New Political Economy book series for Routledge Press. Professor McIntyre received the URI Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997.

Courses

Summer 07

Fall 07

Spring 08


 Recent and Forthcoming Papers

“Are Labor Rights Human Rights and would it Matter if they were?” Human Rights, Human Welfare, vol.6, 2006, pp.1-12.

 “The US and ILO Conventions No.87 and No.98: The Freedom of Association and Right to Bargain Collectively,” with Matthew Bodah, in Richard Block, ed., Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States Workers’ Rights, Upjohn Institute, in press

 “Not Only Nike is Doing It: Sweating and the Contemporary Labor Market," with Yngve Ramstad in Knoedler and Champlin, editors, The Institutional Tradition in Labor Economics, pp.297-314, M.E. Sharpe, 2004.

“Globalization Goes for Therapy,” Rethinking Marxism, vol.16, #1, Jan.2004, pp.101-08

“Revolutionizing French Economics,” (Interview with Gilles Raveaud, Challenge, vol.46, #6, Nov.-Dec.2003, pp.110-130

 “Reasonable Value and the International Organization of Labor Rights," with Yngve Ramstad,  Économies et Institutions, 1er Semestre, 2003, pp.83-109

 “Globalization, Human Rights, and the Problem of Individualism,” Human Rights and Human Welfare, vol.3, #1, Winter 2003, pp.1-14

Current Research