John Bellamy Foster
| John Bellamy Foster | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 15, 1953 Seattle, Washington |
| Residence | Eugene, Oregon |
| Education |
Evergreen State College, B.A., 1975 York University, M.A., 1977, Ph.D., 1984 |
| Occupation | Professor, Editor |
| Employer | University of Oregon |
| Known for | Marxist writings |
| Title | Professor of Sociology |
| Board member of | Monthly Review Foundation |
| Spouse(s) | Carrie Ann Naumoff (teacher) |
| Notes | |
Evergreen State College, B.A., 1975
John Bellamy Foster (born August 15, 1953) is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and also editor of Monthly Review. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological crisis, and Marxist theory. He has given numerous interviews, talks, and invited lectures, as well as written invited commentary, articles, and books on the subject.
Foster was active in the anti-war and environmental movements before enrolling at Evergreen State College in 1971. He studied economics in response to what he saw as an unfolding crisis in the capitalist economy and US involvement with the coup in Chile.
In 1976, he moved to Canada and entered the political science graduate program at York University in Toronto. He submitted his 1979 paper, The United States and Monopoly Capital: The Issue of Excess Capacity, to Paul Sweezy of Monthly Review. He also was published in journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics and Science & Society, and, in 1986, published The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy, based on his Ph.D. dissertation.
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