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ALAN FREEMAN CURRICULUM VITAE

Contact: [email protected]

Date of Birth: 10th April, 1946

MAIN CURRENT ACTIVITIES

Co‐Director (with Radhika Desai), Geopolitical Economy Research Institute

Co‐Editor, Geopolitical Economy Book series, Manchester University Press

Editorial Board member, Revista de Economia Politica

Vice Chair, World Association for Political Economy

Board of Governors, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Manitobans for the Arts, Video Pool

Board of Directors, The Christopher Freeman Trust

RECENT EMPLOYMENT

Principal Economist, Greater London Authority, 2001‐2011

Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich, 1991‐2001

Freelance Programmer and Technical Trainer, 1965‐1989

RECENT APPOINTMENTS

Research Associate, Queensland University of Technology

Technical Advisor, UK Department of Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS)

Economic Advisor, World Cities Cultural Forum

EDUCATION

BSc(Hons) Mathematics 1st Class, University College, London, 1965

Diploma in Computer Science, Edinburgh University, 1968

MSc Economics, Birkbeck College, London, 1978

LANGUAGES

Fluent: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German; Reading: Russian, Turkish

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND PLATFORM SPECIALIZATION

Programmer, analyst, technical writer, technical trainer and database specialist since 1965

Current preferred language specialization: Java (SE8, EE7), PhP, C++

Current Preferred database platform specializations: H2, Derby, MySQL

Web Application Frameworks: Vaadin, SmartGwt

WEBSITES

geopoliticaleconomy.academia.edu/AlanFreeman

ideas.repec.org/e/pfr102.html

slideshare.net/alanfreeman777

vimeo.com/alanfreeman


RECENT ENGAGEMENTS AND AWARDS

Guest speaker, Moscow Economic Forum, May 2014 and April 2015

Guest speaker, St Petersburg Economic Forum, April 2015

Guest speaker, New Silk Road Academy Conference, Shanghai May 2015

Keynote speaker, Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, August 2011 and June 2015

Guest Speaker, Premier’s Economic Advisory Council, Winnipeg. March 2015

Keynote Speaker, 15th conference of "Jornadas de Economia Politica", Valladolid, Spain.

September 2014.

Invited Participant, NEA‐AHRC symposium on cultural measurement, Washington, DC. June

2014

Keynote speaker, Critique of political economy (Mandel Memorial), Mexico October 2013

Invited Guest, World Cities Culture Summit, Istanbul, November 12‐14 2013

Invited speaker, Seminar on Creative Industries and Design, Mexico May 2013

Keynote speaker, Post‐Global Initiative, Moscow, May 2013

Guest Lecturer, Course on Creative Industries, TsingHua University, October 2012

Guest speaker, Amandla Colloquium on Wage‐Led Growth, Johannesburg, October 2012

Guest speaker, Global Policy Forum, Yaroslavl, Russia, September 2011

Keynote speaker, Mayor’s luncheon for the Arts, Winnipeg, June 2011

Guest Speaker, Symposium on “Future of the City: The Arts Symposium”. Chicago University

Office of Public Engagement, Chicago Cultural Policy Center, NEA. Chicago June 2011

Distinguished Scholar Award, World Association for Political Economy, Souzhou May 2011

Guest Speaker, 'My City Still Breathes' symposium organised by Winnipeg Arts Council on

behalf of Canada Capital of Culture, November 2010

Guest Speaker, Conference on the world economic crisis, organised by the International

Labour Research and Information Group, Cape Town, April 2010

Invited Speaker, ‘The Pros and Cons of City Regions’, Port Elizabeth and Gauteng City

Councils, April 2010

RECENT CONSULTANCY AND ADVISORY ACTIVITY

Joint lead researcher, Geography of the UK’s Creative and High‐Tech Industries, August 2015.

Review of 'Literature Review on the Living Wage'. September 2013. Client: Auckland City

Council, New Zealand

Expert Advisor, Creative Industries Council Technical Working Group on the Classification

and Measurement of the Creative Industries, April‐Sept 2013. Client: DCMS


Joint lead researcher, Dynamic Mapping of the UK’s Creative Industries. April 2012‐January

2013. Client: QUT, NESTA

Core Steering Committee member, ‘The Value of UK Fashion’, 2010. Client: British Fashion

Council

Technical Expert, OECD Advisory Panel on Metropolitan Boundaries

COMMISSIONED RESEARCH REPORTS

(with Peter Higgs, Hasan Bakhshi and John Davies). Geography of the UK’s High Technology

and Creative economy. London: NESTA, 2014.

(With Hasan Bakhshi and Peter Higgs) A Dynamic Mapping of the UK's Creative Industries,

NESTA, January 2013.

nesta.org.uk/publications/dynamic‐mapping‐uks‐creative‐industries

State of Uncertainty: Innovation through experimentation. NESTA provocation 14, London:

NESTA. nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/state_of_uncertainty.pdf

Creative Industries 2010 Update. London, Greater London Authority, 2010.

ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/52542.html

Not Rocket Science: a roadmap for publicly‐funded R&D in the arts. London: ‘Money,

Missions, Models’, December 2009.


Measuring the Intrinsic Value of the Arts: how to stop worrying and learn to love Economics.

London: ‘Money, Missions, Models’, April 2009


Creativity in the Age of the Internet. 2008.


London: a Cultural Audit. London: London Development Agency, March 2008


Creative Industries 2007 Update. London: Greater London Authority, June 2007


Defining and measuring World Metropolitan Regions, GLA Economics Current Issues Note

17. ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/52716.html

The GLA's interim metro area dataset. GLA Working Paper 21, 2007.


A Fairer London: the Living Wage in London (jointly with Leticia Veruete‐McKay). London:

Greater London Authority, May 2007.



(With Paul Cheshire)Defining and Measuring Metropolitan Regions: a rationale. Presentation

to OECD expert group on territorial indicators.

http://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/52714.html







Towards a common standard Comparing European and American cities, Working Paper 13.

London: Greater London Authority, July 2005.


London’s Creative Sector: 2004 update. London: Greater London Authority, June 2004


Measuring and Comparing World Cities, Working Paper 9. London: Greater London

Authority, May 2004.


The GLA’s London Workforce Employment Series. London: Greater London Authority.

September 2003.


Creativity: London’s Core Business. London: Greater London Authority. September 2002


The Social Wage in Germany. Report on the social wage in Germany for the European

Poverty Foundation. Published in Italian as Il Salario Sociale in Germania.

http://www.countdownnet.info/archivio/analisi/welfare_state/218.pdf

AUTHORED BOOKS

The Benn Heresy, London: Pluto Press 1982

The Benn Heresy revised second edition, London: Pluto Press 2014

EDITED BOOKS

(With Boris Kagarlitsky) The Politics of Empire: Globalisation in crisis. London: Pluto Press

2004. Translated into Turkish as Küreselleşmenin Krizi. Istanbul: Yordum Kitap.

(with Andrew Kliman and Julian Wells) The New Value Controversy in Economics:

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001.


(with Guglielmo Carchedi) Marx and Non‐Equilibrium Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,

1996.

academia.edu/304345/Marx_and_Non‐Equilibrium_Economics

(With Ernest Mandel) Marx, Ricardo, Sraffa. London: Verso.1984.

academia.edu/304344/Ricardo_Marx_Sraffa_The_Langston_Memorial_Volume

PEER‐REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

‘Introduction to Chris Freeman’s “Schumpeter’s ‘business cycles’ revisited”’. European

Journal of the Social Sciences (forthcoming in 2015)

Economics and its Discontents: Comments on George Demartino ‘I Solemnly Swear’ for

symposium on DeMartino’s book 'I solemnly swear', Rethinking Marxism, 2015

(forthcoming)

(with Andrew Kliman, Alexei Gusev and Nick Potts)(accepted for publication) . "The

Unmaking of Marx’s Capital: Heinrich’s Attempt to Eliminate Marx’s Crisis Theory.

Submittted to Science and Society November 2014.

'Schumpeter’s theory of self‐restoration: a casualty of Samuelson’s Whig Historiography of

science'. In Freeman et al (eds) Whig History and the Reinterpretation of Economic

History. Special edition of the Cambridge Journal of Economics.

cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/3.tocVolume 38 Issue 3 May 2014

(edited volume, with Victoria Chick and Serap Kayatekin). Whig History and the

Reinterpretation of Economic History. Special edition of the Cambridge Journal of

Economics. cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/3.tocVolume 38 Issue 3 May 2014

’Crisis, Marxism, and Economic Laws: A Response to Gary Mongiovi’, in Paul Zarembka,

Radhika Desai (ed.) Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today's Capitalism (Research in

Political Economy, Volume 27), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.285‐296. 2011


(with Andrew Kliman) A Welcome Step in a Useful Direction: a response to Changkeun Kim.

Marxism 21, Vol 22. Pp167‐214. 2011. Available at:

http://nongae.gsnu.ac.kr/~issmarx/eng/article/22/Freeman&Kliman22.pdf

Money, Labour and Logic: a Critical Comparison. Critique of Political Economy #1, November

2011.

(with Radhika Desai) Desai, R. and A. Freeman. 2011. ‘Value and Crisis Theory in the “Great

Recession”’. World Review of Political Economy. Vol 2 No. 1, Spring 2011. Pp 35‐47.



‘Crisis and “law of motion” in economics: a critique of positivist Marxism’. Research In

Political Economy. No. 26 (2010). Pp 211‐250.


‘Trends in Value Theory since 1881’. World Review of Political Economy. Vol 1., No. 4.

December 2010.


The Economists of Tomorrow: the case for a Pluralist Subject Benchmark Statement for

Economics. International Review of Economics Education: Volume 8 Issue 2,

December 2009. pp23‐40

ideas.repec.org/a/che/ireepp/v8y2009i2p23‐40.html

‘The Economists of Tomorrow: the Case for Assertive Pluralism in Economics Education’.

American Journal of Economic Sociology vol. 69(5), pages 1591‐1613. November

2010, Wiley Blackwell.

ideas.repec.org/a/bla/ajecsc/v69y2010i5p1591‐1613.html

‘Marxism Without Marx: notes towards a critique’. Capital and Class 34, vol 1. pp84‐97,

December 2010.


The Poverty of Statistics. Third World Freeman, A. 2009. Quarterly Vol 30(8) December 2009.

pp1427‐1448


(With Andrew Kliman) ‘The Truthiness of Veneziani’s Critique of Marx and the TSSI’. Marxism

21, Vol. 6., No. 2. Summer 2009

Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the International

Benchmarking Review on Research Assessment,Lee, F. and Wolfram Elsener (2008)

Publishing, Refereeing, Ranking, and the Future of Heterodox Economics. Special

issue of On the Horizon (Vol. 16.4, December 2008).


(With Andrew Kliman) ‘Simultaneous valuation vs. the exploitation theory of profit: A

summing up’) Capital and Class 94, Spring 2008, pp107‐118


(With Andrew Kliman) ‘Replicating Marx: a reply to Mohun’, Capital and Class No. 88, Spring

2006, pp. 117‐123.



(With Andrew Kliman) ‘Rejoinder to Duncan Foley and David Laibman’ in Zarembka, P (ed)

(2001), Value, Dynamics, and Money, Research in Political Economy 18, pp. 285‐293.

New York, NY: Elsevier Science.


(With Andrew Kliman) ‘Two concepts of value, two rates of profit, two laws of motion’ in

Zarembka, P (ed) (2001), Value, Dynamics, and Money, Research in Political Economy

18, pp. 243‐267. New York, NYL: Elsevier Science.


‘Between two world systems: A response to David Laibman’ in Zarembka, P (ed) Economic

Theory of Capitalism and its Crises, Research in Political Economy 17, pp241‐48.

Stanford, CT: JAI Press.


‘Crisis and the Poverty of Nations: Two Market Products Which Value Explains Better’,

Symposium on Robert Brenner and the World Crisis, Historical Materialism No.5,

Winter 1999, pp 29‐77. London: LSE


‘The Emperor’s Tailor: The Economists and the Crash of ‘98’ in Revista da Sociedade

Brasileira de Economia Politica, journal of the Brasilian Society for Political Economy,

Issue Number 4, June 1999, pp. 5‐52.


Marx: the Spectre Haunting Economics. Seminar presented at the annual conference of the

Society for Political Economy, Brasil, June 1998


(with Malcolm Ryan, Wells, J and Hallam, G.) ‘Resource‐based learning strategies:

implications for students and institutions’ in ALT‐J: Journal of the Association for

Learning Technology, March 1996, pp93‐99

‘Marx without Equilibrium’, Capital and Class 56, Summer 1995. pp49‐81.


‘29, 87 and the Rise and Fall of US Hegemony’, Capital and Class 34, Spring 1988. Pp33‐41.


CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

‘Booms, depressions, and the rate of profit: a pluralist, inductive guide’ (forthcoming,

accepted for publication). In Subasat, T. and J. Weeks. (eds) The Great Global

Meltdown of 2008: Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy‐created?


'First Tell No Untruth' in DeMartino, G. 2015 (ed) Handbook on Professional Economic Ethics.

OUP. Forthcoming.

'All our Tomorrows: The Irresistible Economics of Art for Everyone. In Tawadros, G. and

Russell Martin, London: DACS and Artquest. July 2014.

‘Twilight of the machinocrats: Creative industries, design, and the new future of human

labour’ in Van Der Pijl, K (2014), ed. The International Political Economy of

Production. Handbooks of Research on International Political Economy series,

Benjamin J. Cohen (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Matthew Watson

(University of Warwick). eds. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014

Freeman, A. 2014. 'What Causes Booms'. In Bagchi, A.K. and A.C. Chaterjee. (eds) Marxism:

with and Beyond Marx. Routledge.

'London's Creative Workforce' in Gregory Hearn, Ruth Bridgstock, Ben Goldsmith, Jessica

Rodgers. eds. Creative Work beyond the Creative Industries: Innovation, Employment,

and Education. Aldershot and London: Edward Elgar, 2014.

‘Investing in Civilisation’, in Antony, W. and Guard, J. (2009) (eds) Bailouts and Bankruptcies,

Winnipeg: Fernwood Press.


(with Andrew Kliman) ‘Beyond talking the talk: towards a critical pluralist practice’. in

Fullbrook, E (ed) Pluralist Economics. London: Zed Press, 2008.


‘Heavens Above: What Equilibrium Means for Economics’ in Mosini, V. (ed) (2007)

Equilibrium in Economics: Scope and Limits, London: Routledge.

‘The Inequality of Nations’ in Freeman, A, and Boris Kagarlitsky (eds) (2004) The Politics of

Empire: Globalisation in crisis. pp46‐73. London: Pluto Press.


‘Geld’, entry in Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Band 5: Gegenöffentlichkeit–

Hegemonialapparat. Hamburg: Argument‐Verlag.2004. Open access text is available

in German and English.


‘When things go wrong: the Political Economy of Market Breakdown’ in Westra, R and Alan

Zuege (Eds) (2003) Value and the World Economy Today: Production, Finance and

Globalization. pp91‐118. London:MacMillan.


‘Globalisation: economic stagnation and divergence’, in Pettifor, A (2003) Real World

Economic Outlook, pp152‐164. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.



‘Value and Marx: why it matters’ in Vasapollo (2002) An Old Myth: The Transformation Of

Values Into Prices In Marx’s Capital, pp63‐79 Rome: Universitá di Roma ‘La Sapienza’,

Laboratorio per la Critica Sociale. Open access text is available in Italian and English.


‘The Case for Simplicity’ in Freeman, A., Andrew Kliman and Julian Wells (eds) (2001) The

New Value Controversy in Economics, pp55‐67. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.


‘Has the Empire Struck Back?’ in Albritton, R, Makoto Itoh, Richard Westra and Alan Zuege

(eds) Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises, and Globalization, pp195‐215.

London: McMillan, 2001.


‘Measuring the UK Economy’, in Dorling, D. and Simpson, S. (1999) Statistics and Society, pp.

361‐369. London: Arnold.


‘The New World Order: GATT and the World Trade Organisation’ in Hutchinson, F.(1998)

What everybody really wants to know about money, pp. 113‐131. Charlbury:

Carpenter.

‘The indeterminacy of price‐value correlations: a comment on papers by Simon Mohun and

Anwar Shaikh' in Bellofiore , R (ed) Marxian Economics: a Reappraisal, Volume 2,

pp270‐275.. Basingstoke: McMillan, 1998.


‘A General Refutation of the Okishio Theorem’, in Bellofiore, R (ed) Marxian Economics: a

Reappraisal, Volume 2, pp. 139‐162. Basingstoke: McMillan.1998.


‘Price, value and profit – a continuous, general, treatment’, in Freeman, A. and Carchedi, G.

(eds) (1996) Marx and Non‐Equilibrium Economics, pp. 176‐233. Cheltenham: Edward

Elgar.


‘The psychopathology of Walrasian Marxism’, in Freeman, A. and Carchedi, G. (eds) (1996),

Marx and Non‐Equilibrium Economics, pp. 1‐29. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.


(With Andrew Kliman) ‘Falling Rate of profit tendency: temporal approaches’ in O’Hara,

Phillip A (1999) The Encyclopaedia of Political Economy, pp. 318‐320. London and

New York: Routledge.


‘The Economic background to the Gulf War’, in Yuval‐Davis,N and Bresheeth,H (eds) The Gulf

War and the New World Order, pp. 53‐162. London: Zed Press. 1991


‘National Accounts in Value Terms: the Social Wage and Profit Rate in Britain 1950‐1986’ in

Dunne, P (ed) Quantitative Marxism, pp. 84‐106. Cambridge: Polity Press.1991.


‘The Logic of the Transformation Problem’ in Marx, Ricardo, Sraffa. London: Verso, pp. 221‐

265. 1984.

(With Julian Atkinson) ‘Anatomie du travaillisme de gauche’, in Profils de la Social‐

Democratie Éuropeenne, pp. 171‐219. Paris: P.E.C. Éditions La Brèche. 1982

OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES

‘Jämviktsmarxismens psykopatologi’. Fronesis No. 28, pp56‐85, 2009.

Die Himmel über uns. Über die Bedeutung des Gleichgewichts für die

Wirtschaftswissenschaft, EXIT! Krise und Kritik der Warengesellschaft 3, 212‐241. Bad

Honnef. 2006.

‘The material roots of western racism’, Eszmelet, Budapest, 1998.


‘Dünyanın Sonunun Sonu mu?’ (‘The end of the end of History?’) in Iktisat Dergisi 385. pp54‐

66.1998. available from Cumhuriyet Cad. Ceylan Apt No: 27/6 80090 Taksim,

Istanbul, Turkey

‘ ’ in Thesis, October‐December 1998. pp45‐57

‘Die Neuordning des Weltmarktes – GATT und die Welthandelsorganisation’, Utopie kreativ,

Mai‐Juni 1998. pp49‐58. 1998

‘The Poverty of Nations’, LINKS, July‐October 1996 pp35‐58. 1996


‘GATT and the World Trade Organisation’ Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, Number 59, 1998.

pp 74‐93.

‘Fixing up the world: GATT and the World Trade Organization’, LINKS, Number 10 March to

July 1998. pp81‐90


‘GATT and the World Trade Organization’, conference on ‘Neo‐liberalism versus Social

welfare’ organised by Baloldali Alternativa Egyesülés and Eszmelet, Budapest,

Hungary, 1‐2 November 1997


‘The Poverty of Nations’ in the proceedings of the Actuel Marx 1995 conference (in Persian),

pp110‐137. Andeesheh va Pekyar Publications, Postfach 600132 60331 Frankfurt,

Germany) p115

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

‘The economics of art and the future of civilization: a pluralist research agenda’. SEMINAR,

Westminster University 30th September 2014

Keynote Speaker, 15th conference of "Jornadas de Economia Politica", Valladolid, Spain,

https://www.academia.edu/11762334/Presentation_to_Jornadas_de_Economia_Crit

ica_Valladolid_September_2014

Invited Participant, Joint Symposium on Measuring Cultural Engagement: A Quest for New

Terms, Tools, and Techniques, organised by the National Endowment for the Arts

(US) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). Washington, DC. June 2‐3

2014. http://arts.gov/publications/measuring‐cultural‐engagement‐quest‐new‐

terms‐tools‐and‐techniques

'Cities, Culture and Measurement'. Presentation to the annual conference of the American

Association of Arts Educators, Montreal, May 28th 2014

’Culture, labour, and resources: principles of a practical alternative growth path’ Presented

at the 9th annual conference of the World Association for Political Economy, Hanoi

May 25 2014


‘La ganancia extraordinaria como motor del proceso de desarrollo capitalista: un elemento

desconocido y escondido de la teoría de Marx’ (Superprofit as the motor of capitalist

development: a concealed and ignored element of Marx’s Theory). Presented at the

conference on La crítica de la economía política aplicada al capitalismo actual,

Mexico 14th October 2013. http://www.slideshare.net/alanfreeman777/13‐10‐14‐

plusvalia

Evaluación de la contribución de Ernest Mandel a la economía politíca del mundo actual

(Ernest Mandel’s contribution to the political economy of the world today) Presented

at the conference on La crítica de la economía política aplicada al capitalismo actual,

Mexico 10th October 2013.

‘Invertir en la Civlization’. Presentation to the fourth International Vanguard Conference on

Science and Technology, jointly with the World Association for Political Economy.

Mexico, 30 May 2013.

https://www.academia.edu/3625913/Invertir_en_la_Civilizacion_presentacion_sobr

e_las_industrias_creativas_Mexico_in_Spanish_


‘The Road out of Crisis and the Policy Choices Facing Russia’, presented to the Conference of

the Post‐Globalization Initiative, Moscow, May 1, 2013


‘The Road to Market Serfdom: the Systemic Crisis of Economics, and How to Fix it’.

Presented to the Conference of the Post‐Globalisation Initiative, Moscow, May 1

2013


Invited speaker Panel on the Economic Crisis organized by North Star, Left Forum, New York

June 2013.

‘Creating and Ethical Space for Business’. Presentation to the Asper School of Business

colloquium on the Occupy Movement, University of Manitoba, August 2012.

What Causes Booms? Presentation to the joint conference of AFEP, AHE and IIPPE, Paris

2012


‘Variations on a theme by Adam Smith: Culture, creativity and innovation in the internet

age’. Presented to the 10th anniversary conference of the Association for Heterodox

Economics, Anglia Ruskin College, Cambridge, July 3‐6, 2008.

'Benchmarking and understanding London’s Cultural and Creative Industries'. Presented to

the International Forum on the Creative Economy, Ottawa‐Gatineau, Canada, March

17‐18, 2008.


'Bench Marking and Understanding London’s Creative Industries', International Forum on

the Creative Economy. Ottawa‐Gatineau: Conference Board of Canada.


'Culture, Creativity, and Innovation in the Internet Age', DIME conference on IPR at Birkbeck

College, London, May 22‐23 2008.


‘The Modernity of Backwardness'. Presented to the Political Science Association, September

2007, Manchester


’Explaining National Inequality: The relevance of Marx and the Irrelevance of Equilibrium’.

Presented to special day conference of the International Socialist Journal, 2007

‘Catechism versus pluralism: the heterodox response to the national undergraduate

curriculum proposed by the UK Quality Assurance Authority.’ Presented to the 2007

conference of the International Confederation for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE),

June 1‐3, Salt Lake City, Utah


‘The Modernity of Backwardness' Presented to the 2007 conference of the International

Confederation for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE), June 1‐3, Salt Lake City, Utah

‘London: Europe’s New York’. 7th Annual GaWC (Global and World Cities Centre) lecture,

Loughborough University, January 10th 2005.

‘Equilibrium, Newspeak and Doublespeak: the case for an ontological analysis’ Presented to

the Joint SCEME – RIPPM Workshop on ‘Equilibrium Perspectives’, Friday, 18

November 2005, Keele University, UK

‘Inclusion in a Polarised World’. Presented at the 2005 summer school of DEEEP

(Development Education Exchange in Europe Project), Härnösand ‐ Sweden, 5 ‐ 12

June 2005

‘Bortkiewicz, Sweezy, Sraffa and the sacrifice of scientific integrity to academic

respectability: why the theory of history requires the theory of value’ Presented at

‘Towards a Cosmopolitan Marxism’, Historical Materialism Annual Conference (in

association with Socialist Register and the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial

Prize Committee), University of London Union, and School of Oriental and African

Studies, 4‐6 November 2005

‘From Bolivar to Bolshevism: what the writers of history can learn from its makers’ Presented

at ‘Towards a Cosmopolitan Marxism’, Historical Materialism Annual Conference (in

association with Socialist Register and the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial

Prize Committee), University of London Union, and School of Oriental and African

Studies, 4‐6 November 2005

‘Confronting the evidence: Marx’s historians on the falling profit rate’ Presented to the 7th

annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, London, City

University, July 15‐17 2005.

(With Andrew Kliman) ‘Critical Pluralism: beyond Talking the Talk’ Presented to the 7th

Annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, London, City

University, July 15‐17 2005.

‘Marx and the Academics’ as part of special stream on ‘‘Whiggish History and the

(re)interpretation of economic theory’. Presented to the 6th Annual Conference of

the Association for Heterodox Economics, Leeds University Business School, July 16‐

18, 2004.


(with Sarah Motta) ‘Argentina and the Southern Cone: graveyard for theories of

globalisation, Test bed for theories of imperialism’. Presented to the annual

conference of the Political Studies Association, Lincoln, 5‐8 April, 2004


‘Where does War Come From?’ Presented to the Conference of the Norwegian Social Forum,

Oslo, 22 June 2003

‘The Twilight of Globalisation’, presented to United Nations Student Association, University

of Umea, Sweden September 26, 2003

‘The age of war: From world market to world conquest’. Presented to the 5th Annual

Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, Nottingham Trent

University, 8‐10 July, 2003.


‘Прощай Глобализация (Goodbye Globalisation)’ Conference on globalisation organised by

the Institute for Globalisation Studies, Moscow 22 June 2003

‘Globalization: the end of an era’, presented at the conference "Towards a Critical

Globalization Studies: Continued Debates, New Directions, and Neglected Topics,",

University of California Santa Barbara, California organised by the Department of

Sociology, UC‐Santa Barbara, May 1st‐4th, 2003

‘Globalization: the end of an era’, Critical Globalization Conference, University of California

Santa Barbara, California organised by the Department of Sociology, UC‐Santa

Barbara, May 1st‐4th, 2003

‘L’età della guerra: dal mercato mondiale alla conquista del mondo’, Forum on the

Theoretical analysis of the Imperialism of the XXI Century, organised by the

Laboratorio per la Critica Sociale del Centro Studi Trasformazioni Economico‐Sociali

(CESTES‐PROTEO), Rome University La Sapienza, 12 April 2003

‘Marx after Marx after Sraffa’. Presented to the 4th Annual Conference of the Association for

Heterodox Economics, Dublin City University Business School, 9‐10 July 2002

‘The New world order and the failure of globalisation’ annual conference of the British

International Studies Association, London School of Economics, December 17th 2002


‘Marx after Marx after Sraffa’. 6th Annual Conference of the Middle East Technical University

(erc/METU), Ankara, September 11‐14, 2002. Panel session ‘Debates in the Labour

Theory of Value’.


‘The New Political Geography of Poverty', 6th Annual Conference of the Middle East

Technical University (erc/METU), Ankara, September 11‐14, 2002. Panel session on

’Global Crisis and Globalisation’



‘London: A practical testbed for economic theory’. Presented to the 4th Annual Conference of

the Association for Heterodox Economics, Dublin City University Business School, 9‐

10 July 2002

‘Marx, Sraffa, and value: an introduction to the debate’. Day conference on Vasapollo (ed)

(2002) An Old Myth: the Transformation of Values into Prices in Marx’s Capital,

organised by the Laboratorio per la Critica Sociale del Centro Studi Trasformazioni

Economico‐Sociali (CESTES‐PROTEO), Rome University La Sapienza, May 21, 2002

‘The USA and the World Economy’ Globalisation Seminar on April 5, 6, and 7, Odense,

Denmark ‘Another World is Necessary’

’Two concepts of 'Centre of Gravity’: Commentary on contributions by Gary Mongiovi and

Fred Moseley. Presented to the IWGVT mini‐conference on value, Eastern Economic

Association, April 2001


Plenary panel session on ‘The Future of Heterodox Economics’ at the 3rd Annual Conference

of the Association for Heterodox Economics, Open University Conference Centre, 7‐8

July 2001

‘The current recession: an empirical study of the world economy using labour‐time values’.

Presented to the 3rd Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics,

Open University Conference Centre, 7‐8 July 2001

‘Europe, the US and the World Economy: Alan Greenspan’s search for a fifth Kondradieff’,

Fifth International Conference in Economics organized by the Economic Research

Center (ERC) of the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, September

11‐13, 2001.

‘L’Europa, il Regno Unito, e l’Economia Globale’, organised by the Laboratorio per la Critica

Sociale del Centro Studi Trasformazioni Economico‐Sociali (CESTES‐PROTEO), Rome

University La Sapienza, La Sapienza, Rome, 1st June 2001.

Moderator of session on ‘Money’ at 2000 conference of InkriT (Berliner Instituts für kritische

Theorie – Institute of Critical Theory), Potsdam, Berlin, June 8th 2000

O Imperio contra‐atacou?' in Carrion, R. and Paolo Fagunes Vicentini, A Crise do Capitalismo

na Virdada to Milenio, Porto Alegre: Ed. Universidade UFRGS. (proceedings of IIIrd

International Forum of Solidarity, Porto Alegre)

‘Marx, Kalecki, Robinson and the Falling Rate of Profit’, Conference of the Review of Political

Economy, Cambridge, July 27th 2000

‘The return to classical imperialism: A value‐theoretic explanation’. Presented to the 2nd

Annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, London, July 2000


‘Marxian debates on the falling rate of profit’, International Symposium on ‘Debates on value

theory Since Marx’, Greenwich, July 2000


(With Malcolm Ryan) ‘Space, Computers and Learning’ Digital Creativity 2000, School of

Architecture and Landscape, Greenwich University, January 2000. Greenwich: The

University of Greenwich.


‘Zur Widervereinigung Der Politischen Ökonomie’. Presented to 1999 conference of InkriT

(Berliner Instituts für kritische Theorie – Institute of Critical Theory), Potsdam, Berlin,

June 10, 1999.

‘Forward to the past: a Return to Classical Imperialism?’ Conference on ‘The New World

Order’ organised by ISPRAN (Institute of Comparative Politology), Moscow November

1999

‘Adelante al pasado: ¿Una vuelta al imperialismo clásico?’ (Forward to the past – a return to

classical imperialism?) 3rd International Seminar of the Fórum da Solidaridade, Porto

Alegre, Brasil, 18‐22 October 1999.

Invited Speaker: ‘Crisis y Pobreza’ Seminar at the University of La Plata, 10 September 1999

‘The Limits of Ricardian Value: Law, Contingency and Motion in Economics’. Annual

Conference of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA), March 1999

Invited Speaker: ‘Crisis y Desigualdad: dos Hechos en Búsqueda de una Teoría’ (Crisis and

Inequality: two facts in search of a theory), Cycle of lectures and seminars in Buenos

Aires at the invitation of I.A.D.E. (Institute for Economic Development) and the

Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 7

September 1999

‘The Emperor’s Tailor: The Economists and the Crash of ‘98’. Annual Conference of the

Eastern Economic Association (EEA), March 1999

‘New directions in the theory of value: an evaluation of alternative paradigms’, 1st

International Seminar on Nuevas Direcciones en el Pensamiento Económico Crítico

(New Directions in Critical Economic Thought), organised by the Departiment of

Applied Economics, Faculty of Politics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid,

10‐12 May 1999. ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/52796.html

‘Four Endogenous Market Failures which (TSS) Value Explains Better: Inequality,

Unemployment, Crisis and Liquidity Preference’, 1st International Seminar on Nuevas

Direcciones en el Pensamiento Económico Crítico (New Directions in Critical

Economic Thought), Madrid 1999.



Simultaneous and Temporal Valuation Contrasted; paper presented to the second 'Marx

International' Conference, Paris, 1998.


Invited Speaker: ‘Um diálogo sobre os dois principais sistemas do valor’ (A dialogue

concerning the two chief systems of value), annual conference of the Sociedade de

Economía Política, Niteroi (Rio de Janeiro) Brasil, June 11‐13 1998


Invited Speaker: ‘Fixing up the World: GATT and the New World Trade Order’ Symposium on

‘Costa Rica en el Mundo – los Proximos Cincuenta Años’ (Costa Rica in the world –

the next fifty years’ organised by UNA (Autonomous National University) and CINPE

(International Political Economy Centre for Sustainable Development), San José,

Costa Rica, March 1998.

‘What happens in recessions? A value‐theoretic approach to Liquidity Preference’. Annual

Conference of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA), March 1998

‘The Transformation of Prices into Values: Comment on the Chapters by Simon Mohun and

Anwar M. Shaikh’, presented to the centenary conference on Volume III of das

Kapital, Bergamo, 1994.

‘What happens in crashes? A Non‐equilibrium, Value‐theoretic Approach to Liquidity

Preference’, Annual conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political

Economy (EAEPE), Lisbon November 1998


‘Time, the Value of Money and the Quantification of Value’. 2nd METU (Middle East Technical

University) conference on economics, Ankara, Turkey, 9th‐13th September 1998.


‘Alternatives to Traditional National Accounts Indicators’ with Sanjiv Lingayah, New

Economics Foundation and Martin Weale, Director, National Institute for Economic

and Social Research, organised by the Royal Statistical Society, 25th November 1998

‘A General Refutation of the Okishio Theorem’, presented to the centenary conference on

‘Karl Marx’s third Volume of ‘Capital’: 19894‐199, organised by the Department of

the University of Bergamo in collaboration with the European Journal of The History

of Economic Thought, Bergamo, September 27 1994

‘Time, money and the quantification of value’, Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic

Association (EEA) 1997, Washington, April 1997.

‘If they’re so rich, why ain’t they smart?’ Annual conference of the European Association for

Evolutionary Political Economy, Athens November 1997



‘La Situation économique et perspective du marché brittanique’, Journée ‘Approche du

Marché Britannique’ at the Centre Européen de Créativité et d’Innovation

Industrielle, Valenciennes, 19 December 1997.

‘New Approaches to the Theory of Value’, ‘Encuentro de economía Crítica’ (Meeting on

Critical Economics), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana‐Xochimilco in association

with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico D.F., 2‐5 December

1997.

‘Private knowledge and the information society’, University of the Third Age, November

1997.

‘The new value debate and the birth of a paradigm’, Annual Conference of the American

Social Sciences Association (ASSA), New Orleans, January 1997.


‘Mr Marx and the neo‐classics’, Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of

Economic Thought (ESHET), Marseilles, February 18th‐2 March 1997.

‘An endogenous profit rate cycle’, Annual conference of the Society for Economic Dynamics,

Keble College, Oxford, July 7‐10 1997.


‘Electronic publishing: technical constraints with policy consequences’ 1997 conference on

Computer‐Aided Learning in Economics (CALECO), Bristol, July 1997

Mr Marx and the Neoclassics. Presented to the Annual Conference of the European

Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, November 1996.


(With George Hallam, Malcolm Ryan and Julian Wells) ‘Teaching Economics with the aid of

computers’, proceedings of the CALECO conference on Computer‐Aided Learning in

Economics, Bristol 1996.

‘Mr Marx and the neo‐classics’, Annual Conference of the History of Economics Society,

Vancouver July 1996.

‘Ernest Mandel’s Contribution to Economic Dynamics’, Memorial Conference in honour of

Ernest Mandel, organised by the International Institute for Economic Research.

Amsterdam, July 1996. http://www.ernestmandel.org/en/aboutlife/txt/freeman.htm

‘Die Armut von Nationen'; presented to student seminar at the Freie Universität Berlin, June

1999. ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/2575.html

’Relative Surplus Value and Accumulation’, Annual Conference of Socialist Economists,

Newcastle July 1995.


‘Relative Surplus Value and Accumulation’, Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic

Association (EEA) Boston March 1995.


(with Julian Wells and George Hallam) ‘Teaching Economics with the Aid of Computers – a

successful pilot’. CALECO 1995, University of Bristol, 6th September 1995.

‘Reappraising the Classics’ Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA),

New York March 1994.

‘A Resource‐based Learning Development Unit (RBLDU) for the University of Greenwich: A

Suggested Strategy for the Integration of IT into the curriculum’ (With George

Hallam, Malcolm Ryan and Julian Wells) CALECO, Bristol, September 13th 1994.

Equilibrium‐free economics’, 1994 Conference of Socialist Economists, Newcastle July 1994.

‘A simulation model of capitalist reproduction’, Conference of Socialist Economists, Sheffield

July 1991.

BOOK REVIEWS

Owen Hatherley 'A New Kind of Bleak' for Le Travail. Accepted for publication 2015.

Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. ‘Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder’,

Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 39(3), pages 415‐417.

ideas.repec.org/a/pal/easeco/v39y2013i3p415‐417.html

Kuhn, R. (2007). Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism, Historical Materialism.


Carchedi, G. For Another Europe: a Class Analysis of European Economic Integration.

London: Verso. Reviewed in Historical Materialism volume 14:1 (pp283–297). Leiden:

Koninklijke Brill NV. 2004.

brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=116

Leimann, Melvin M. ‘The Political Economy of Racism’, Reviewed in Capital and Class 55,

Spring 1995.

Nagel, S. ‘Applications of Decision‐Aiding Software’, Reviewed in Research Policy November

1994. ideas.repec.org/a/eee/respol/v24y1995i2p317‐318.html

OTHER RESEARCH AND WRITING

The new driver of economic and human growth: the scientific basis for the DCMS’s new

Creative Economy employment and output data. 14 January 2014.

https://www.academia.edu/5712049/The_new_driver_of_economic_and_human_gr

owth_the_scientific_basis_for_the_DCMS_s_new_Creative_Economy_employment_

and_output_data


(with Michael Roberts and Michael Burge) Manuscript. A Trade Union Plan for the Crisis.

Prepared for the Fire Brigades Union. 2011.

academia.edu/4121975/A_trade_union_plan_for_the_crisis

AHE submission to UK parliamentary select committee on Science and Technology enquiry

into Peer Review. Prepared for the Association for Heterodox Economics and

submitted to the committee on 10th March 2011

https://geopoliticaleconomy.academia.edu/AlanFreeman/The‐Myth‐Industry

Datapedia: a yellow brick roadmap. Manuscript.


Value from Nowhere: A response to Duménil and Lévy. Submitted to RRPE on 19 April 1999

and rejected.


A note on moral depreciation. Manuscript. http://mpra.ub.uni‐

muenchen.de/2588/1/MPRA_paper_2588.pdf

Replacement Costs, Stocks and the valuation of inputs. Manuscript. August 1995.


Negative net products with positive profits'. Manuscript. September 1996.


(With Julian Wells, George Hallam, and Malcolm Ryan) Resource‐based presentation of an

introductory economics unit, Academic Development Group Working Paper,

University of Greenwich, final report on research project on the use of computers in

economics education.

’Why Quantitative Marxism?’ Manuscript


PRESS AND MEDIA

(With Radhika Desai) "The Enigma Election". Winnipeg Free Press, 14th May 2015

‘Winnipeg’s Next Mayor must Nurture and Value the Arts’. Canadian Broadcasting

Corporation. September 20th 2014.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg‐s‐next‐mayor‐must‐value‐

nurture‐the‐arts‐1.2773444

‘Rapid transit, Urban Development and Heritage’. Presentation to Winnipeg City Council.

SSRN paper 2074338. June 2013

academia.edu/3068347/Rapid_Transit_urban_development_and_heritage


‘Learning from the makers of history: Bolshevism, Bolivarianism, and the Legacy of Hugo

Chavez’. Amèrica XXI, Web Edition, August 2013.


'Medir la creatividad para impulsar la economia' El Economista. June 24, 2013

http://eleconomista.com.mx/entretenimiento/2013/06/24/medir‐creatividad‐

impulsar‐economia

(with Peter Lavelle, Adrian Pabst and John Laughland) Russia Today panel discussion on the

economic crisis. September 2011.

https://www.academia.edu/977094/Russia_Today_broadcast_on_the_economic_cri

sis

‘Challenging the theft of Latin America’s resources’, Campaign Group News , June 2006

<http://www.poptel.org.uk/scgn/articles/0606/p8b.htm>

‘Left shifts in Latin America’ Campaign Group News November 2004

<http://www.poptel.org.uk/scgn/articles/0412/p8.htm>

‘Why not eat children? Reforms that are presented as economic necessities are in fact

usually political choices’, The Guardian Tuesday October 12th 2004

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1324934,00.html >

‘How globalisation fuels poverty’ Campaign Group News December 2004

<http://www.poptel.org.uk/scgn/articles/0507/p7.htm>

‘Con El economist Britanico Alan Freeman’, Camara Nacional de Comercios y Servicios Del

Uruguay. 3 July 2004. http://www.cncs.com.uy/con‐el‐economista‐britanico‐alan‐

freeman‐la‐globalizacion‐no‐deja‐espacio‐para‐mas‐coreas/

‘Прощай Глобализация (Goodbye globalisation)’, Rodnaya Gazyeta May 2003

’Critique of the Alternative Economic Strategy’, Journal of the International Marxist Group,

August 1981.

SCHOLARLY APPOINTMENTS

Co‐director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, 2015‐

Editorial board member, Cuadernos de Economia Politica, 2014‐

Editorial board member, Critique of Political Economy, 2012‐

Editorial board member, Capital and Class, 1999‐2006

Editorial board member, Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Politica, 1998‐2002

Editorial board member, Thames Papers 1996‐1998

Council member, World Association for Political Economy, 2012‐

Coordinator, Association for Heterodox economics, 2007‐2009


Conference co‐organiser, 9th Annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics,

2007

Conference co‐organiser, 8th Annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics,

2006

Member, conference organising committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics,

1999‐2001.

Member, Eastern Economic Association conference organising committee, 1996‐2000

Organiser, CSE annual conference 1992

CONSULTANCY

Report on Geography of the UK’s High Technology and Creative economy. Client: NESTA

Report on A Dynamic Mapping of the UK's Creative Industries. Client: NESTA

July 1994 ‘Exchange Rates and the car industry’: Paper presented at Conference on the

Vauxhall Astra and the car industry organised by General Motors groups from IG

Metall (Germany), T&GWU (UK) and IT&GWU(Eire), Dublin July 1994.

September 1993 Advisor to Despatches, September 1993 programme on Czechoslovakia

August 1993 ‘Exchange Rates and the car industry’, presented at Ford European motor group

conference organised by T&GWU transport section Eastbourne Autumn 1993;

August 1993 ‘Exchange Rates and the car industry’, NorthWestern T&GWU regional summer

school, Autumn 1993

From 1981‐2001 various freelance programming and training: Clients include: Anthony Cook

(Amethyst), BT, Economist Intelligence Unit (1987‐1989), Foremost Training, Morgan

Stanley, Higher Technical Institute Nicosia, ITSA (DHSS IT arm), Littlewoods, Merlin

Training, Microcomputer Unit, National Power, National Provident, North West

Thames Health Authority, Pilkingtons, Private Bank and Trust Company, Scottish

Power, SHL, Stehle Associates, Surrey and South Norfolk District Councils, The

Instruction Set, UK

EMPLOYMENT

1991‐2001. Greenwich University Department of Economics. Senior Lecturer.

Aug 87 ‐ Dec 89: Economist Intelligence Unit: integrated subscription/order fulfilment and

accounts system

Jan 87 – Mar 89: Typecraft UK; Analyst/Programmer

June 1990 ‐ Jan 1991: Jensen and Partners International; Technical Author.

1983‐87 Full Time Freelance Programmer, Technical Author and Trainer.


1981‐1983: Lithoprint Limited; IT manager

1978‐1981: Thames Polytechnic; Lecturing in Economics and Computing

1974‐1977: Glasgow University; Programming: Computer graphics, PDP‐11

1971‐1974: Strathclyde University Computer‐aided Architectural Design Unit; Programming:

Computer‐aided architectural design, PDP‐11

1969‐1971: Programming Research Group, Oxford; Research in semantics of programming

languages

1966‐1969: Edinburgh Regional Computing Centre and ICL; Programming: Compiler

implementation and design

PHD EXAMINER

Peter Jones, Australian National University, 2015

James Meadway, SOAS, 2014

Nicholas Potts, LSE, 2012

freeman cv may 2015

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