J. Ron Stanfield

Professor - rstanfie@lamar.colostate.edu
C 318 Clark Building
970.491.6891 - 970.491.2925 Fax

B.A., Economics, University of Texas, Arlington
M.A., Economics, University of Texas, Arlington
Ph.D., Economics, University of Oklahoma

Teaching Philosophy
My goal is never to present too little material in a class nor to ask of students anything less than the very best work of which they are capable. I endeavor never to patronize students but to treat them as fellow scholars who are driven as I am by a passion for ideas and their social consequences.

Research
Continuing research into the 1) Nurturance Gap that besets America and the Great Capitalist Restoration that has been underway since the late 1970s, and, 2) the unification of Original and new institutional economics, behavioral economics, social economics, socio-economics, and Marxian economics.

Recent Work
John Kenneth Galbraith and Original Institutional Economics.” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 28, Fall 2005, 25-45. (co-authored)

“Corporate Power, Legitimacy, and Heterodox Economics.” Journal of Economic Issues, 37, June, 2004. (co-authored)

“The Role of the Press in Democracy: Heterodox Economics and the Propaganda Model.” Journal of Economic Issues, 37, June, 2004. (co-authored)

“Social Capital, Karl Polanyi, and American Social and Institutional Economics,” Journal of Economic Issues, 37, June, 2003. (co-authored)

“A Portfolio Allocation Approach to Sustainable Regional Development." Journal of Economic Issues, 35, June, 2001. (co-authored)

"The Scope, Method, and Significance of Original Institutional Economics," Journal of Economic Issues, 33, June, 1999, 231-55.

"Where Has Love Gone? Reciprocity, Redistribution, and the Nurturance Gap," Journal of Socio-Economics, April 1997. (co-authored).

RECENT BOOKS FROM STANFIELD
Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith
University Press of Mississippi, 2004. (Co-edited)

John Kenneth Galbraith
New York: St. Martin's 1996 and London: Macmillan 1996. This book provides an intellectual portrait of John Kenneth Galbraith, an institutional economist who examines the configuration of power by the clusters of mores that comprise institutions. Galbraith proposes an aggressive social democratic policy to achieve social and economic reform. This policy includes explicit recognition that the state must intervene to countervail the power of entrenched political economic interests and to provide generous support of the arts and letters to achieve the affirmation of humanity.

CHOICE review: vol. 34, no.03, 1996 nov, excerpts:
... Stanfield has produced a well-written intellectual biography of J.K. Galbraith. … Both academics and nonacademics will profit from this book. All levels. --- J. M. Nowakowski, Muskingum College

Economics, Power, and Culture: Essays in the Development of Radical Institutionalism
New York: St. Martin's 1995. London: Macmillan 1995. This book depicts the need for an economics that addresses social provisioning in the context of power and culture. Only in this way can the requisite re-viewing of the place of economy in society be brought to bear in an economic analysis capable of addressing the seemingly intractable problems of the democratic capitalist societies.

Curriculum Vitae

Classes Taught

• EC 370
  Comparative Economic Systems
• EC 376
  Marxist Economic Thought
• EC 474
  Recent Economic Thought
• EC 505
  Political Economy I
• EC 570
  Evolution of Economic Thought EC
• EC 705
  Political Economy II
• EC 770
  Economic Thought and Systems

Honors and Awards
Veblen-Commons Award, Assoc. for Evolutionary Economics, 2005

Thomas Divine Award for Lifetime Contributions, Assoc. for Social Economics, 2002

John H. Stern Distinguished Professor, College of Liberal Arts, 1999

Nomura Foundation Plenary Speaker, Japan Assoc. for Evolutionary Economics, 1998

President, Assoc. for Evolutionary Economics, 1998

President, Assoc. for Institutional Thought, 1995

President, Assoc. for Social Economics, 1993

Colorado State University 's Oliver Pennock Distinguished Service Award, 1989

Fellow of the International Institute of Social Economics, Hull, England, 1979