Duncan Foley

Duncan K. Foley (born June 15, 1942) is an American economist. He is the Leo Model Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Economics at MIT and Stanford, and Professor of Economics at Columbia University (Barnard College and Columbia University Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences). He has held visiting professorships at Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, UC Berkeley, and Dartmouth College, as well as the New School for Social Research (in 1995, prior to his permanent position starting in 1999).

Foley has served as the Co-Editor of ‘‘Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization’’ (1999–2001), as an Associate Editor of ‘‘Journal of Economic Theory’’ (1976–1981), and of ‘‘Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization’’ (1989–2014), and on the editorial boards of ‘‘Journal of Economic Literature’’ (1985–1991), ‘‘Metroeconomica’’ (1991–present), and ‘‘Princeton University Press Series on Complexity’’ (1993–2004). He also served on the Nominating Committee of the American Economics Association (1990).

His most-cited work was on Marxian economics and value theory, in particular his seminal book that put ''Das Kapital'' in a modern form, offering an accessible and rigorous introduction to Marx’s thought – this work disrupted his path to tenure.

However, at length he provides treatments of the history and theory of economics encompassing John Maynard Keynes, Hyman Minsky, David Ricardo, Jean-Baptiste Say, Adam Smith, and Piero Sraffa. Indeed, his work ranges across such topics as economics, physics, ecology, money, complexity and statistical reasoning, and problems of social coordination. Foley has contributed to political economy and public finance, monetary economics, global environmental economic policy and technological innovation, econometrics, Bayesian statistics and foundations for choice of theory, information theory, complex systems theory (thermodynamics / statistical mechanics) and economics (as well as classical political theory),
statistical equilibrium economic modeling, economic dynamics, and other macroeconomics (including growth theory, business cycle theory and the theory of distribution). In the field of fair division, he is considered the first to introduce the concept of envy-free resource allocation.

Awards and recognition

* 2015 Leontief Award, Global Development And Environment Institute, Tufts University
* 2013 ''Social Fairness and Economics: Essays in the Spirit of Duncan Foley''

Gildersleeve Lecturer
Barnard College of Columbia University, 2009
* Schumpeter Lectures, University of Graz, 2001
* International Who’s Who of Economics
* Ford Foundation Faculty Research Professor, 1969-70Curriculum Vitae – Duncan Foley’s Homepage
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Selected publications

* 201
"What's wrong with the fundamental existence and welfare theorems?"
''Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization'' 75
* 2009, “The economic fundamentals of global warming” in Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin (eds.)

Edward Elgar Publishing
* 2008
''Adam’s Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology''
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press
* 2003

London: Routledge
* 1999, co-author with Thomas R. Mich
''Growth and Distribution''
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press (Japanese trans., 2002)
* 1998, co-editor (and contributor) with Peter S. Albin

Princeton: Princeton University Press
* 1994, ttp://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.37.6884&rep=rep1&type=pdf "A Statistical Equilibrium Theory of Markets,"''Journal of Economic Theory'' 62:2
* 1990
"Recent Developments in Economic Theory,"
''Social Research'' 57:3
* 1986
''Understanding Capital: Marx's Economic Theory''
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press (Japanese trans., 1988; Italian trans., 1994)
* 1986

London/New York: Harwood Academic (Japanese trans., 1988; Italian trans., 1994)
* 1982,
* 1971, co-author with Miguel Sidrauski

New York: Macmillan (Japanese trans., 1974)
* 1967
"Lindahl's Solution and the Core of an Economy with Public Goods"
''Econometrica'', 38:1, pp. 66–72
* 1967, "Resource allocation and the public sector," ''Yale Economic Essays 7:1, pp. 45–98

Several working papers are also availabl
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See also

* Capital accumulation
* Temporal single-system interpretation
* ''On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation''

References

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1942 births
21st-century American economists
Marxian economists
Living people
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Santa Fe Institute people
Institute for New Economic Thinking