Congratulations to our 2023 Veblen-Commons Award Winner, Jon D. Wisman!
Jon D. Wisman is Professor of Economics at American University in Washington, D.C. He has twice been selected by American University as the Outstanding Teacher of the Year. He has published articles and chapters in a wide variety of journals and books, and edited Worker Empowerment: The Struggle for Workplace Democracy. Much recent published work addresses topics in the history of economic thought, guaranteed employment, and the role of inequality in generating economic crises and environmental devastation. During 2002, he served as President of the Association for Social Economics. His book, The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology (Oxford University Press) appeared June 2022 (Interview by The Dissenter). You can read his CV here and most blog posts here. He and co-author Quentin Duroy are the winners of the 2020 Journal of Economic Issues Editor’s Prize for their piece: “The Proletarianization of the Professoriate and the Threat to Free Expression, Creativity and Economic Dynamism,” 54(3), September 2020: 876-894.