MICHAEL A. MEEROPOL [RECENTLY RETIRED FROM ] Department of Economics Springfield, MA 01119 e-mail: mameerop@gmail.com Education Ph.D. Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973 M.A. Economics, Cambridge University (U.K.), 1970 B. A. Economics, Cambridge University (U.K), 1966 B. A. (Honors) Economics, Swarthmore College, 1964 Dissertation Research Interests Teaching Interests On the Origins of the Chilean Nitrate Enclave Recent United States Economic History Macroeconomic Policy Public Finance, Macroeconomics, American Economic History, African-American History, American History, Economic Policy Controversies Employment History Professor and Chair: Department of Economics, (1996 2008) Professor of Economics, (1985-2008) Associate Professor of Economics, (1977-1985) Assistant Professor of Economics, (1970-1977) Instructor in the Evening Extension Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Fall semester, 1969. Courses Taught Solo: Principles of Economics I and II The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination Introduction to Economics Macroeconomics Economic Development American Economic History Special Topics: Latin American Economics Special Topics: Reaganomics Special Topics: Economic Controversies Special Topics: Economics of Election Issues Special Topics: American Capitalism: Alternative Visions Public Finance History of Economic Thought Advanced Monopoly Theory
Liberal Arts Freshmen Seminar Economic Foundations (MBA Program) The Business Environment (MBA Program) The Changing Social, Political, Legal and Ethical Environment of Business (MBA Program) Principles of Political Economy I. (Honors Program) Principles of Political Economy II. (Honors Program) Collaborative Co-Teaching with colleagues from the English and History Departments: Cultures Past and Present: Muslim Spain and Modern South Africa Cultures Past and Present: Han China and Modern Mexico Cultures Past and Present: Comparative Race Relations, the US and South Africa Black and White in 20 th Century America (Honors Program) The United States in Vietnam. Other Teaching Experience Center for Popular Economics Summer Institute, 1987 Urban Institute, 1990 University of Massachusetts Adjunct Professor of Economics taught three upper level courses, 2001, 2004, 2005 Invited Presentations Workshops: Rowe Conference center and the Unitarian Universalist National Meetings, 1999 Matthew Vassar Lecture: Vassar College, 1995 Numerous speeches to various civic groups about economic topics. Numerous appearances on radio and television about economic topics Regular commentator on WAMC-FM radio (the NPR affiliate in Albany, NY). Commentaries available at http://www.wamc.org/commentators-meeropol.html Publications Books: Surrender, How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution (University of Michigan Press, 1998, pbk. 2000) We Are Your Sons, the Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Boston, Houghton-Mifflin Co., 1975, co-authored with Robert Meeropol. We Are Your Sons, updated revised edition Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois Press, 1987, co-authored with Robert Meeropol. 2
The Rosenberg Letters, The Complete Prison Correspondence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg NY: Garland Publishing Co., 1994 Peer-Reviewed articles: "William A. Williams' Historiography," (a review article of The Roots of the Modern American Empire) in Radical America, November 1970. "Towards a Political Economy Analysis of Underdevelopment," Review of Radical Political Economics, Winter, 1972. "A Radical Teaching a Straight Principles of Economics Course," Review of Radical Political Economics, Fall, 1974. (Later reprinted in Studies in Socialist Pedagogy ed. B. Ollman, NY Monthly Review Press, 1978). "The Crime of the Century Revisited: The David Greenglass Scientific Evidence in the Rosenberg Case, Science and Society June 1980, co-authored with Gerald Markowitz. "Reaganomics Has Failed on its Own Terms," Challenge, Jan-Feb, 1987. "Zero Inflation: Prescription for Recession," Challenge, Jan-Feb, 1990. (Reprinted in numerous editions of Taking Sides Dushkin Publishing Co.) "A Smoke Screen for Brutal Interest Rates," The World and I (April, 1996): 102-103. [Reply to an article by Senator Spencer Abraham.] A Neo-Liberal Distortion of Adam Smith: the Case of the Invisible Hand." Working Paper 79, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004. http://www.umass.edu/peri/pdfs/wp79.pdf. Distorting Adam Smith on Trade Challenge (July-August), 2004. Book Reviews: Book Reviews of The Work of Nations (Robert Reich), The Overworked American (Juliet Schor), The Pathology of the American Economy (Michael Perelman) Social Security the Phony Crisis (Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot) Contours of Descent (Robert Pollin) American Economic Growth, 1945 to the Present (Samuel Rosenberg) and The Great Financial Crisis (John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff) for Challenge. Book Review of William Appleman Williams: the Tragedy of Empire (Paul Buhle and Edward Rice-Maximim) Monthly Review (June, 1996). Other writings: 3
41 footnoted radio commentaries as mentioned above, texts available at http://www.wamc.org/commentators-meeropol.html and [some] at http://wneconomics.blogspot.com/ Affiliations Member Union for Radical Political Economics American Economic Association Staff Economist Center for Popular Economics COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES ON CAMPUS AT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE: Founding Member and Chair: Lecture Day Committee of the Faculty Senate at WNEC: 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1990. Chair of Lecture Day 2000 Committee, 1999-2000. This activity brings to the campus one or more speakers of national renown to bring the college together from its various disciplinary perspectives to confront big questions. Over the years the topics have included: Energy, Race and Race Relations, The Computer Society, The US Constitution, Orwell s 1984, Ethics in the Professions, US Foreign Policy, The Role of the Arts in Society. In 2000 we celebrated 25 years of the Lecture Day Program by having four sub-topics of the overall theme: Forging the Good Life; Rebuilding a Purposeful Community for the 21 st Century. We featured a discussion of the concept of Freedom throughout our history, the challenge of technology to privacy, the national dialogue on race and the financial, personal and family challenges confronting our graduates as they move through their 20s. Creator of the one-credit Colloquium to accompany the Lecture Day programs (first one, 1979). This involves a series of 50-minute lectures delivered by various members of the college community around the current Lecture Day topic. Faculty members volunteer their time and supervise one student paper for which the students receive one unit of academic credit towards graduation. Creator of the intercession faculty-administration-staff seminar, 1975. The idea was to get faculty, administrators and other employees of the college excited about the up-coming Lecture Day topic. Thus, we would have one or two days of panel discussions featuring members of the college community sharing their research or other work as it relates to the broad Lecture Day topic. This has been an annual event since 1989 when it was renamed the Wellen Davison Seminar in honor of a retired Mechanical Engineering Professor. Elected member of the Faculty Senate: 1978-1980, 1981-1985, 1986-1988, 1991-1993, and 1997-2001. Founding Member and Chair: Campus Human Relations Clearinghouse (later renamed the Human Relations Committee of the Faculty Senate): 1981-1985. Membership on same committee many times since. 4
Member of many Faculty Senate Committees. Chair, Arts and Sciences Peer Review Committee (1990-1994) Co-Director, Honors Program (1999-2000) REFERENCES President Anthony S. Caprio 1215 Wilbraham Road Springfield, Mass 01119 Tel: 413 782 1243 acaprio@wnec.edu Professor Gerald Markowitz Chair, Inter-Department of Thematic Studies John Jay College of Criminal Justice 899 Tenth Avenue New York, N. Y. 10019 Tel: 212 237 gmarkowi@jjay.cuny.edu Professor Herbert J. Eskot Box E-5320 Chair Department of Economics 1215 Wilbraham Road Springfield, MA 01119 Tel: 413 331 4718 heskot@aol.com Professor Diane Flaherty Chair Economics Department Thompson Hall University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 Tel: 413 545 4703 chair@econs.umass.edu 5