Robin Hahnel

Robin Hahnel is a radical economist, a political activist and Professor Emeritus from the American University in Washington DC. He has also taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, Lewis and Clark College, Portland State University, Willamette University in Oregon, the National University and Pacific University in Lima Peru and the University of Manchester in England.

He is best known for his books Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics (1990), The ABCs of Political Economy (2002,), Economic Justice and Democracy (2005), Green Economics (2014) and Income Distribution and Environmental Sustainability (2017), as well as co-creator of the alternative to capitalism known as “a participatory economy.” His book, Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy, co-authored by Erik Olin Wright, was published by Verso press in 2016.

He is father of six wonderful children and three beautiful grandchildren.