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Faculty Profile

Costas_Panayotakis
Costas Panayotakis
Professor of Sociology
N-625
718-260-5932

Education:

CUNY Graduate Center, PhD, Sociology

Stanford University, BA, Economics

Academic Interests:

Political Economy, Political Sociology

I. Books:

The Capitalist Mode of Destruction: Austerity, Ecological Crisis and the Hollowing out of Democracy. Manchester University Press, 2021.

Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy.  Pluto Press, 2011.

II. Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Beyond the Capitalist Workplace: How the Production of Surplus across the Economy Keeps Producers Divided,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 53, No. 1 (2021).

“Neoliberalism, the Left and the Rise of the Far Right: On the Political and Ideological Implications of Capitalism’s Subordination of Democracy,” Democratic Theory Volume 7, No. 1 (summer 2020).

“Insatiability and crisis: Using Interdisciplinarity to Understand (and Denaturalize) Contemporary Humans.” In R. D. Lansiquot (Ed.), Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for STEM: A Collaborative Case Study. New York: Palgrave (co-authored with Sean MacDonald), 2015.

“Scarcity at a Time of Capitalist Crisis,” Derive: Zeitschrift fur Stadtforschung, April-June 2014.

“The Trouble with ‘Solution-Driven Unionism’: Labor’s Crisis of Ideas and the Promise of Economic Democracy,” Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, March 2014.

“Capitalism, Meritocracy and Social Stratification: A Radical Reformulation of the Davis-Moore thesis”, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, January 2014.

“Theorizing Scarcity: Neoclassical Economics and Its Critics” June 2013, Review of Radical Political Economics.

“The Struggle in (and over) Greece,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, June 2012 (article solicited by the journal’s editors on account of my expertise on Greek society and social movements).

“Scarcity, Capitalism and the Promise of Economic Democracy,” International Journal of Pluralist Economics and Education, March 2012.

“Democracy and the Capitalist Crisis: The Greek Case,” International Journal for Pluralism and Economics Education, June 2011.

“The global capitalist crisis and the youth:  From Tunisia and Egypt to Europe and the U.S,” International Journal for Pluralism and Economics Education, June 2011.

“Individual Differences and the Potential Tradeoffs Between the Values of a Participatory Economy.” Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 41, No.1, Winter 2009, 23-42.

“Reflections on the Greek Uprising.” Capitalism Nature Socialism, Volume 20, No.2, June 2009, 97-101.

“Working More, Selling More, Consuming More: Capitalism’s ‘Third Contradiction’”, chapter in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds.), Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007, New York: Monthly Review Press.  

“Capitalism’s Dialectic of Scarcity and Environmental Ethics”, Environmental Ethics, Volume 27, No.3, Fall 2005, 227-244.

“A Marxist Critique of Marx’s Theory of History,” Sociological Theory, March 2004.

“Capitalism’s Dialectic of Scarcity and the Emanicipatory Project,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, March 2003.

"On the Anti-Globalization Movement's Self-Understanding," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, December 2001.

"Dystopian Capitalism and the Specter of Utopia," Science and Society, Fall 2001.

"Nature, Dialectics and Emancipatory Politics," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, June 2001.

Recent Newspaper Articles and Radio Interviews

“Capitalism, Science, and the Rise of Conspiracy Theories,” The Indypendent, February 16, 2021.

“Neoliberalism by Another Name: From Trump’s Putsch to Biden’s ‘Moderation’,” The Indypendent, January 11, 2021.

“Trump’s Greatest Sin in the Eyes of the Ruling Class,” The Indypendent, September 11, 2020.

“The Uses and Abuses of Social Distancing Under Capitalism,” The Indypendent, April 14, 2020.

Cape Town, South Africa, ‘News, Reviews and Analysis,’ Radio 786, 4/16/20

‘Friday Night Talk’, kmud, 4/24/20 (West coast)