Richard McIntyre
macking@uriacc.uri.edu
Associate Professor, (Ph.D., University of Massachussetts, 1989) Associate of the Labor Research Center. Professor McIntyre's recent publications include "Columbus, Paradise, and the Theory of Capitalist Development, Mode of Production, Social Formation, Uneven Development, or is there captalism in America?, and the Peculiar Marriage of Marxian Neoclassical Labor Economics". He is currently working on three research projects. His main line of research is on the abolition of the slave trade and abolitionisim more generally and the ideological hegemony of the market in the United States. With Professor Micheal Hillard of The University of Sourthern Maine, he is writting a paper on the crisis of the industrial relations profession. Finally, he is preparing a book manuscript on the radical right wing attack on public life.
Professor McIntyre teaches Principles of Economics (both macro and micro), labor economics and international economics. In the spring 1996 semester he organized an undergraduate seminar entitiled "Capitalism and Slavery in Revolutionary New England," which he hopes to teach again in the 1997-98 academic year as an honors course. Professor McIntyre is particuarly interested in working with students who are attracted to historical, political and philosophical issues in economics, or who want to study economic theories that are outside of the mainstream of the discipline such as Marxian, Feminist, Institutional, and Post-Keynesian theories.
Professor McIntyre is a member of URI's Honors and Visiting Scholars committee and served as an advisor to Omicron Delta Epsilon. McIntyre is active as a public speaker, especially for trade unions and public interest groups. Most recently he has spoken for the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, the Progressive Policy Institute, the Harvard Trade Union, and Fannie Mae. He has written reports for a number of government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Rhode Island Department of Empoloyment and Training, Citizens for Tax Jusstice, and Ocean State Action. He was the co-author of the economic development proposals for Myrth York, the Democtratic candidate for governor of Rhode Island in 1994, and advises a number of public office holders and candidates. He writes occasional articles for the Providence Journal and other newspapers.
Professor Mcyntyre's classes are:
- ECN 201Principles in Economic Theory: Microeconomics.
- ECN 202Principles in Economic Theory: Macroeconomics.
- ECN 344International Financial Economics.