David Laibman

David Laibman (born December 25, 1942) is an American economist and ragtime guitarist. He is a professor emeritus of economics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the editor emeritus of Science & Society, a quarterly Marxist journal founded in 1936.

Biography Laibman attended Antioch College, Ohio, with a year of study at Ruskin College, Oxford, England. He earned his B.A. from Antioch in 1965; an M.A. in Economics from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, in 1969; and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York, in 1973. His dissertation, The Invariance Condition for Value-Price Transformation in a Linear, Non-Decomposable Two-Sector Model, dealt with problems in Marxist value theory. He remained active in its work, becoming Editor in 1990 and Editor Emeritus in 2022. He developed a model of socialist economic planning, "Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination" (MDIC), in Science & Society and in several of his books, including Value, Technical Change and Crisis; Deep History (2007), Political Economy After Economics (2012), and Passion and Patience (2015). Laibman has worked with a variety of artists in the early folk world, using his advanced finger picking technique. One notable album is Way Out West by Scottish folk singer Alex Campbell, in 1963. Laibman is featured on the track "Orange Blossom Special" with Campbell. He issued a DVD, Guitar Artistry of David Laibman.

Published works Laibman is the author of five books:

Value, Technical Change and Crisis: Explorations in Marxist Economic Theory (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe,1992) Capitalist Macrodynamics: A Systematic Introduction (London: Macmillan,1997) Deep History: A Study in Social Evolution and Human Potential (Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2007) Political Economy After Economics: Scientific Method and Radical Imagination (London: Routledge, 2012) Passion and Patience: Society, History, and Revolutionary Vision (New York: International Publishers, 2015)

Discography

The New Ragtime Guitar (1971) Blue Goose/Arch FS 3528 Novelty Guitar Instrumentals* (1975) Stephen Grossman's Guitar Workshop SGGW134 Classical Ragtime Guitar (1981) Rounder Records Rounder 3040 Ragtime Guitar (1997) Easy Disc ED CD 7026 Classic Folk Guitar (1998) Wooded Hill Recordings HILLCD23 Guitar Artistry of David Laibman DVD (2007) Vestapol 13104DVD Adventures in Ragtime Guitar (2008) Stephen Grossman's Guitar Workshop SGGW113 Contemporary Ragtime Guitar (2009) Stephen Grossman's Guitar Workshop SGGW121