Arthur MacEwan

Professor Emeritus, at UMass Boston since 1975

Arthur MacEwan retired from teaching in the UMass Department of Economics in 2008, after 33 years on the faculty.  His range of courses included those on economic development, macroeconomics, the economics of education, Latin America, economic history and Marxist economics.  His research has focused primarily on issues of international development, leading to the publication of, for example: Neo-liberalism or Democracy? Economic Strategy, Markets and Alternatives for the 21st Century (1999) and Debt and Disorder: International Economic Instability and U.S. Imperial Decline (1992). In addition to his scholarly work, Professor MacEwan writes regularly for Dollars & Sense magazine. During 2001-2002 Professor MacEwan was the university's Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; he served three separate terms as chairperson of the Department of Economics; and in the 1990s and 2000s he held positions as Vice President, Grievance Officer and President of the Faculty Staff Union at UMass Boston.  After his retirement, Professor MacEwan has continued his work at UMass Boston as a Senior Fellow at the university’s Center for Social Policy.

Contact Information

E-mail: arthur.macewan@umb.edu

Arthur MacEwan's Curriculum Vitae

MacEwan CV 2009

Representative Publications

“Inequality, Power, and Ideology: Getting it Right about the Causes of the Current Economic Crisis,” Dollars & Sense, March/April 2009, No. 281. 

“An End in Itself and a Means to Good Ends: Why Income Equality is Important,” in Development, Equity And Poverty: Essays in Honour of Azizur Rahman Khan, L. Banerje et al, eds., Macmillan Publishers India, New Delhi, 2009; online at http://www.mccormack.umb.edu/centers/csp/documents/working_ papers/2009_2_An_End_in_Itself.pdf. 

“The Meaning of Poverty: Questions of Distribution and Power,” Investigación Económica, 2009; online at http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/  350b635b7e/publication/280/. 

Jointly with Angel Ruiz, “Washington Dollars and the Puerto Rican Economy: Amounts, Impacts, Alternatives,” Ensayos y Monografias, No. 135, febrero 2008; online at http://economia.uprrp.edu/ensayo%20135.pdf.

“Liberalization, Migration, and Development: The Mexico-U.S. Relationship,” Revista de Economia Mundial, No. 14, 2006; online at http://www.sem-wes.org/revista/arca/rem_14/rem14_2I.pdf