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William Henry Locke Anderson (1933–22 September 2002) was an American economist and professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. During the first half of his career, W. H. Locke Anderson did research on macroeconomics. During the second half, Professor Anderson focused on Marxist economics and became an editor of ''Monthly Review'', a Marxist journal. ==Biography== He earned in 1955 a B.A. from Williams College in 1955 and in 1960 a PhD degree from Harvard University, immediately after which he joined the economics department of the University of Michigan. He became full professor in 1968.〔 In macroeconomics, his research monographs studied corporate finance, investment, and national income theory.〔 He served as a staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers of the United States President during the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson.〔 Becoming critical of mainstream economics during the 1960s, he devoted his energies to Marxian political-economy, believing "that only Marxism provides the intellectual equipment needed to understand the reality of a modern capitalist society". He helped to organize the Union for Radical Political Economy (URPE),〔 which publishes the journal ''Review of Radical Political Economics''. He developed new economics courses in Marxist theory and the economics of women.〔 〕 He became an associate editor of ''Monthly Review'', a Marxist economics-journal, after publishing an essay "Apologizing for capitalism" in 1987. In this essay, Anderson wrote
At the University of Michigan, he supervised the doctoral dissertations of Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot.〔Page 2450: 〕 He took early retirement from the University of Michigan in 1988 and moved to New York City. He was a parishioner of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. He died on September 22, 2002.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「W. H. Locke Anderson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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