David Coates (24 December 1946 – 7 August 2018) was a British-American

political economist Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour mar ...

. Coates earned an undergraduate degree at the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

in 1967 and completed a

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common Academic degree, degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields ...

degree at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

in 1979. He began teaching prior to earning an advanced degree, serving as lecturer at the University of York from 1970 to 1971, and moving to the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

in 1977. Coates left Leeds in 1995 for the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

, and became the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...

in 1999. He died on 7 August 2018, aged 71.

Selected bibliography

*''The Labour Party and the Struggle for Socialism'', Cambridge University Press, 1975. *''Labour in Power?: A Study of the Labour Government 1974-1979'', Prentice Hall, 1980. *''A Socialist Anatomy of Britain'', Polity Press, 1985. *''The Crisis of Labour: Industrial Relations and the State in Modern Britain'', Philip Allan, 1989. *''The Question of UK Decline: The Economy, State and Society'', Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1993. *''Industrial Policy in Britain'', Macmillan, 1996. *''Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era'', Polity Press, 2000. *''New Labour in Power'', Manchester University Press, 2000. *''Blair’s War'', Polity Press, 2004. *''Prolonged Labour: The Slow Birth of New Labour in Britain'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. *''Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments'', Continuum, 2010. *''Making the Progressive Case: Towards a Stronger US Economy'', Continuum, 2011. *''America in the Shadow of Empires'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. *''Capitalism: The Basics'' Routledge, 2015. *''Observing Obama in Real Time Volume 1: Pursuing the Progressive Case'', Library Partners Press, 2016. *''Observing Obama in Real Time Volume 2: The Progressive Case Stalled'', Library Partners Press, 2016. *''Reflections on the Future of the Left'', Agenda Publishing, 2017. *''Flawed Capitalism: The Anglo-American Condition and its Resolution'', Agenda Publishing, 2018.

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