David Ellerman

David Patterson Ellerman (born 14 March 1943) is a philosopher and author who works in the fields of economics and political economy, social theory and philosophy, quantum mechanics, and in mathematics. He has written extensively on workplace democracy based on a modern treatment of the labor theory of property and the theory of inalienable rights as rights based on de facto inalienable capacities.

Education

Ellerman was born 14 March 1943 in Fayette, Missouri.

He received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965.

Career After his PhD, Ellerman remained teaching at Boston University in the mathematics and then the economic department until 1976. From 1992 until 2003, he worked at the World Bank as an economics advisor to the Chief Economist (Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern). Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life: Essays in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995. . Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy. Cambridge MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992. . The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm. London: Unwin Hyman Limited (HarperCollins Academic), 1990. ; 2016 reprint . Economics, Accounting, and Property Theory. Lexington MA: Lexington Books, 1982. .