Mark A. Lutz (born March 1, 1941; Zurich, Switzerland) is an Emeritus Professor of

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at the

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, and the author of ''Economics for the Common Good'', published by

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in 1999. Lutz was educated at the

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, where he received his Ph.D. in 1972 with a dissertation titled ''The Equilibrium Industrial Wage Structure: An Analysis in Terms of Wage Theory''. He is a proponent of

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, strongly influenced by political economy of

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, the social economics of John Hobson, and various (heterodox) ideas of current thinkers, especially Herman Daly on environment, John Culbertson on trade, and

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. His older brother is Robert Lutz, former Vice-Chairman of

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Selected publications

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*''The challenge of humanistic economics'', co-authored by psychologist Kenneth Lux; introduction by Kenneth E. Boulding (Menlo Park, California: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co., 1979); also published in Chinese by Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Press (2003). *''Humanistic economics: The new challenge'', co-authored by Kenneth Lux; foreword by Amitai Etzioni (New York, N.Y.:

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, 1988). *''Social Economics: Retrospect and Prospect'' (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990). *''Economics for the common good: Two centuries of economic thought in the humanist tradition'' (Advances in social economics) (London:

, 1999). Also published in Chinese by Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Press (2003) and in Japanese by Koyo Shobo (2017). 1941 births Living people 21st-century American economists Swiss emigrants to the United States University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Maine faculty {{US-economist-stub