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Lloyd Jeff Dumas (born May 18, 1945) is a professor of
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, Economics, and
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at the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the
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. Dumas' focus areas include the economics of peace,
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, the macroeconomics of military spending,
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and economic solutions,
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regarding dangerous technologies,
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and international economic consultancy accountability. Dumas has published more than 120 works in eleven languages in books and journals on economics, engineering, sociology, history, public policy, philosophy, military studies and peace science. He has been quoted as an authority by ''
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'' (not an exhaustive list). His extensive publications include those found in newspapers/magazines, including the ''
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''. Among numerous radio interviews, he has appeared more than once on KERA's (90.1 FM) ''think'' with Krys Boyd.


Biography

Dumas was born in
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, on May 18, 1945. He studied at Lincoln High School in Yonkers and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from
Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
. He received a B.A. in Mathematics in 1967, an M.S. in Industrial Engineering in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Economics in 1972. He taught economics at the
City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY, pronounced , ) is the Public university, public university system of Education in New York City, New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven ...
and industrial and management engineering at Columbia University before moving to
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, where he is on the faculty in the School of Economics, Political and Policy Science at UT-Dallas. Like his mentor,
Seymour Melman Seymour Melman (December 30, 1917 – December 16, 2004) was an American professor emeritus of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. He wrote extensively f ...
, Professor Dumas has committed his career to studying the effects of military/defense spending on the economy. He has served on the boards of SANE (Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy) and
Economists for Peace and Security Economists for Peace and Security (EPS) is a New York–based, United Nations accredited and registered global organization and network of thought-leading economists, political scientists, and security experts founded in 1989 that promotes non-mili ...
.


Work


Books

His books include ''Lethal Arrogance: Human Fallibility and Dangerous Technologies'' (New York: St. Martin's Press/
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, December 1999); ''The Socio-Economics of Conversion: From War to Peace'' (New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1995); ''Making Peace Possible: The Promise of Economic Conversion'' (Oxford:
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, 1989); and ''The Overburdened Economy: Uncovering the Causes of Chronic Unemployment, Inflation and National Decline'' (Berkeley:
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, 1986). Forthcoming books include ''The Peacekeeping Economy,'' scheduled to be released in the Winter of 2011 by
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.


Public speaking

Dumas has spoken at more than 250 conferences and special lectures since 1980, including symposia sponsored by the
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, the
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, the
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, the
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, the
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and the
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(at that time, the "
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Academy of Sciences"), as well as professional meetings of economists, sociologists, political scientists, physicists, engineers, historians, physicians, management scientists, teachers, labor unions and members of Congress. He has addressed the United Nations, testified at city, state and federal government hearings, and discussed the policy implications of his work on more than 300 TV and radio programs in the U.S., former Soviet Union, Canada, Europe and the Pacific. From 1991–93, he was Vice Chair of the Governor's Task Force on Economic Transition of the State of Texas.


Economic Impacts of the Department of Energy on the State of New Mexico

He has analyzed the effects of federal government spending for "a Nuclear Watch of New Mexico project to evaluate the Department of Energy's (DOE) economic impact on the state of New Mexico" (p. 1).


University of New Mexico

While on a one-semester sabbatical from UT-Dallas in Fall 1997, he held the Garrey Carruthers Distinguished Chair in the Honors Program at the
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in
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. While at UNM-Albuquerque, he gave numerous public talks and seminars for faculty.


Other work

Other areas of his work include accountability issues about economic advisors' behavior in international economic development. Together with Janine Wedel, he organized and chaired the conference and working group "Building Accountability into International Economic Development Advising" in
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, Poland (September 21–24, 2003). A related monograph, co-authored by Janine Wedel and Greg Callman, titled "Confronting Corruption, Building Accountability: Lessons From the World of International Development Advising," will be published by Palgrave in 2010. Organizations with which Dumas has collaborated or for which he has made contributions include the
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, and Nuclear Watch of New Mexico. On more than one occasion, Professor Dumas spoke at meetings organized by SLMK, for example, at meetings held in Moscow with the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Rosatom ()—at that time, the Ministry for Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation (), or MinAtom (), and the Russian Duma (Russian Parliament). His work has received noteworthy attention from notable persons such as
Amitai Etzioni Amitai Etzioni (; Hebrew: אמיתי עציוני; né Werner Falk; 4 January 1929 – 31 May 2023) was an Israeli-American sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism. He founded the Communitarian Network, a ...
, Professor Kosta Tsipis of the
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, the late
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,
John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the ...
,
Jan Tinbergen Jan Tinbergen ( , ; 12 April 1903 – 9 June 1994) was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the ana ...
(Nobel Laureate in Economics), and Retired USN Rear Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr. Etzioni was the Series Editor for the series "Studies in Socio-Economics," a culmination of research presented at the International Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. An edited book by Dumas, ''The Socio-Economics of Conversion from War to Peace,'' was included in the series. (See Publications for a complete citation for this book.) Of Dumas' contribution to macroeconomic theory, Kenneth Boulding wrote in the preface to Dumas' book, ''The Overburdened Economy'', "This is a very important book. ... Lloyd Dumas has challenged one of the implicit assumptions of the Keynesian Revolution ... the assumption that all activity which is paid for must be productive. His questioning of this assumption may well set off a reorganization of the economic information system ... Dumas's work is a very valuable contribution to the coming transformation of economic thought" (p. xi). In praise of the same book (see
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), Galbraith wrote "This is a book of real substance by a scholar of high competence. ... I urge for it and for Professor Dumas the attention they both deserve." and Jan Tinbergen wrote " he Overburdened Economythrows much light on the problem of the deceleration of economic growth of both the USA and the Soviet Union."


Publications


Books

* ''The Peacekeeping Economy: Using economic relationships to build a more peaceful, prosperous, and secure world'' (Yale University Press, 2011). * ''The Technology Trap: Where human error and malevolence meet powerful technologies'' (Greenwood Press, 2010). * ''Lethal Arrogance: Human Fallibility and Dangerous Technologies'' (New York: St. Martin's Press/Palgrave, December 1999) * ''The Overburdened Economy: Uncovering the Causes of Chronic Unemployment, Inflation and National Decline'', preface by Kenneth Boulding, former President of the American Economics Association. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986) * ''The Conservation Response: Strategies for the design and operation of energy-using systems'', Lexington Books, 1976.Review of ''The Conservation Response'':


Edited volumes

* ''The Socio-Economics of Conversion: From War to Peace'', preface by Amitai Etzioni, President, American Sociological Association (New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1995). Editor and contributor. * ''Making Peace Possible: The Promise of Economic Conversion'' (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1989). Edited with Marek Thee; author of the first and last chapters.


References


External links


Website at UT Dallas

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

Physicians for Social Responsibility
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