James Richard O'Connor (April 20, 1930 – November 12, 2017)
was an 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 m ...
and professor of
sociology
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...
. He was born April 20, 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts and died November 12, 2017 in Santa Cruz, California. He bore two sons in his life; Steven and Daniel OConnor.
* ''Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism'' (Guilford Press, 1998).
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External links
Photographs of James (Jim) R. O'Connor from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections
1930 births
2017 deaths
American economists
Ecosocialists
Political economists
Political ecologists
University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
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