David Patterson Ellerman (born 14 March 1943) is a philosopher and author who works in the fields of economics and political economy, social theory and philosophy, quantum mechanics, and in mathematics. He has written extensively on

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based on a modern treatment of the labor theory of property and the theory of inalienable rights as rights based on de facto inalienable capacities.

Education

Ellerman was born 14 March 1943 in Fayette, Missouri. He received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from

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in 1965. He went on to

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for his graduate work, receiving an MA in philosophy of science in 1967, an MA in economics in 1968, and a doctorate in mathematics in 1972. His PhD thesis was titled ''Sheaves Of Relational Structures And Ultraproducts'', and was advised by Rohit Jivanlal Parikh.

Career

After his PhD, Ellerman remained teaching at Boston University in the mathematics and then the economic department until 1976. He then taught economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston until 1982, then at

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until 1987, and finally at

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until 1990. In 1990, he moved to Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he started a labor consulting firm. From 1992 until 2003, he worked at the

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as an economics advisor to the Chief Economist (

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and Nicholas Stern). From 2003 to 2020, he was a visiting scholar at the

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and since 2020, he is an associate researcher at the

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Books

* ''Partitions, Objective Indefiniteness, and Quantum Reality''. SpringerNature 2024. . * ''The Logic of Partitions: With Two Major Applications, Logic Studies 101''. College Publications, 2023 . * ''New Foundations for Information Theory: Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy''. SpringerNature, 2021. . * ''Putting Jurisprudence Back into Economics: What is Really Wrong in Today's Neoclassical Theory''. SpringerNature, 2021. . * ''Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy''. SpringerNature, 2021. . * ''The Uses of Diversity: Essays in Polycentricity''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. . * ''Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance''. University of Michigan Press, 2005. . * ''Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life: Essays in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics''. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995. . * ''Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy''. Cambridge MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992. . * ''The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm''. London: Unwin Hyman Limited (HarperCollins Academic), 1990. ; 2016 reprint . * ''Economics, Accounting, and Property Theory''. Lexington MA: Lexington Books, 1982. .

References

External links

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