David Prychitko
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Economist
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of the Austrian School
Austrian School
The Austrian School of economics is a heterodox school of economic thought. It advocates methodological individualism in interpreting economic developments , the theory that money is non-neutral, the theory that the capital structure of economies consists of heterogeneous goods that have...
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Early life and education
Prychitko was born in Evergreen Park, IllinoisIllinois
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to Harry and Joanne Prychitko. He is of Ukrainian
Ukrainians
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and Italian
Italian people
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descent. He was raised in Worth, Illinois, and is a 1980 graduate of Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard
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High School in Palos Heights, Illinois. He remained in Worth until he moved to Michigan to attend Northern Michigan University
Northern Michigan University
Northern Michigan University is a four-year college public university established in 1899 located in Marquette, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. With a population of nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Northern Michigan University is the Upper Peninsula's largest...
in Marquette, a small city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Michigan
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. After completing his B.S. in Economics (1984), Prychitko attended George Mason University
George Mason University
George Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...
in Fairfax
Fairfax, Virginia
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, Virginia
Virginia
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, where he earned an M.A. (1987) and a Ph.D. (1989) in economics. At George Mason he was a student of Kenneth Boulding, James Buchanan
James Buchanan
James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States . He is the only president from Pennsylvania, the only president who remained a lifelong bachelor and the last to be born in the 18th century....
, Don Lavoie
Don Lavoie
Don C. Lavoie was an Austrian school economist. He worked at the Cato Institute. He wrote two books on the problem of economic calculation. His first book on this subject was Rivalry and Central Planning . This book stressed the importance of the process of competitive rivalry in markets...
, and Thelma Lavine. Lavoie chaired Prychitko's dissertation committee. Michael Alexeev, Jack High, and Karen I. Vaughn served as the economists on the committee, and Tom Burns
Tom Burns
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, a sociologist, served as the "outside the discipline" committee member.
Before completing his Ph.D., Prychitko was also a Junior Fellow in the Program on Participation and Labor-Managed systems in the Department of Economics at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
in Ithaca
Ithaca
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, New York (1988). He finished writing his dissertation research there, with some influence under the program's director, Jaroslav Vanek
Jaroslav Vanek
Jaroslav Vanek is an economist and Professor Emeritus of Cornell University known for his research on labour-managed firms , and also to the theory of international trade.-Career:...
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Professional history
After receiving his doctorate, Prychitko conducted post-doctoral research on a Fulbright Grant in the Philosophical Faculty at the University of ZagrebUniversity of Zagreb
The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...
, in Zagreb
Zagreb
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, Croatia
Croatia
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(1989). While there he had also participated in several courses at the Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
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, Croatia
Croatia
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, including Political Theory and Political Education—Anarchism: Community and Utopia. That course was celebrated as the first gathering in Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
of scholars of anarchism in forty or more years. During his stay at the Inter-University Centre, Prychitko also critically discussed the theory and practice of workers' self-managed socialism with several members of the Yugoslav Praxis School
Praxis School
The Praxis school was a Marxist humanist philosophical movement. It originated in Zagreb and Belgrade in the SFR Yugoslavia, during the 1960s.Prominent figures among the school's founders include Gajo Petrović and Milan Kangrga of Zagreb and Mihailo Marković of Belgrade...
, including Zagorka Golubovic, Mihailo Markovic
Mihailo Markovic
Mihailo Marković, PhD was a Serbian philosopher. He was born in Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes...
, Veljko Rus, Laslo Sekelj, Svetozar Stojanovic, and Rudi Supek
Rudi Supek
Rudi Supek was a Croatian sociologist and a member of the Praxis School of Marxism.Supek studied philosophy in Zagreb and graduated in 1937. He went to study clinical psychology in Paris, where he was when World War II erupted...
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After his return from Yugoslavia, Prychitko served as a faculty member in the Department of Economics at the State University of New York at Oswego
State University of New York at Oswego
State University of New York at Oswego, also known as SUNY Oswego and Oswego State, is a public university in the City of Oswego and Town of Oswego, New York, on the shore of Lake Ontario...
, in Oswego
Oswego
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, New York
New York
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(1989–1997). During that time, he participated as a Summer Fellow in the Faculty Seminar on Economy, Values, and Culture, at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University
Boston University
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in Boston
Boston
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, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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(1992), a program directed by the noted sociologist, Peter Berger
Peter L. Berger
Peter Ludwig Berger is an Austrian-born American sociologist well known for his work, co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge .-Biography:...
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Prychitko was also a Faculty Affiliate in the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University (2001–2004). Additionally, he held the Cecil and Ida Green Chair in Economics at Texas Christian University
Texas Christian University
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in Fort Worth, Texas
Texas
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(2003–2004). Prychitko has been a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Northern Michigan University
Northern Michigan University
Northern Michigan University is a four-year college public university established in 1899 located in Marquette, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. With a population of nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Northern Michigan University is the Upper Peninsula's largest...
since 1997.
Non-professionally, Prychitko was a college-radio blues disc jockey for several years, a volunteer position he held at radio stations WNYO in Oswego, New York and WUPX in Marquette, Michigan. He is now a member of WUPX's Board of Control. He has since become a devotee of old-time fiddle music, and is one of a handful of Appalachian-style fiddlers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
He lives in Marquette, Michigan
Marquette, Michigan
Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Marquette County. The population was 21,355 at the 2010 census, making it the most populated city of the Upper Peninsula. Marquette is a major port on Lake Superior, primarily for shipping iron ore and is the home of Northern...
with his wife Julie and their four children Sonja, Emily, Anthony, and Anna. Anna has Down Syndrome
Down syndrome
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As author or co-author
- Marxism and Workers' Self-Management: The Essential Tension (Greenwood Press, 1991) ISBN 0-313-27854-7.
- Markets, Planning and Democracy: Essays after the Collapse of Communism (Elgar, 2002) ISBN 1-84064-519-9.
- The Economic Way of Thinking co-authored with Paul HeynePaul HeynePaul T. Heyne was a lecturer in economics for nearly a quarter century at the University of Washington in Seattle, United States....
and Peter BoettkePeter BoettkePeter J. Boettke is an American economist of the Austrian School.-Early life and education:Boettke was born in Rahway, New Jersey to Fred and Elinor Boettke and remained there until he moved to Pennsylvania to attend Thiel College in Greenville and later Grove City College. He became interested in...
(Prentice Hall, 2009) ISBN 0-13-154369-5. This textbook has recently been translated into Chinese, HungarianHungarian languageHungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
, JapaneseJapanese languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
, and RussianRussian languageRussian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
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As editor or co-editor
- Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics co-edited and introduced with Peter Boettke (Elgar, 1994) ISBN 1-85278-854.
- Individuals, Institutions, Interpretations: Hermeneutics Applied to Economics (Avebury, 1995) ISBN 1-85628-968-0.
- Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. III with Peter Boettke (JAI Press, 1996) ISBN 0-7623-005-8.
- Producer Cooperatives and Labor-Managed Systems two volumes co-edited and introduced with Jaroslav Vanek (#62 in the International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Mark Blaug, series editor, Elgar, 1996) ISBN 1-85898-189-1.
- Ludwig von MisesLudwig von MisesLudwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian economist, philosopher, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern Libertarian movement and the "Austrian School" of economic thought.-Biography:-Early life:...
and F.A. Hayek, "O Slobodnom Trzistu: Klesicni Eseji ("The Free Market: Classic Essays"). Croatian translations co-edited and introduced with Nevenka Cuckovic (MATE,1998) - Why Economists Disagree: An Introduction to the Alternative Schools of Thought (State University of New York Press, 1998 ) ISBN 0-7914-3569-5 (hardcover) and 0-7914-3570-9 (paperback)
- Market Process Theories two volumes co-edited and introduced with Peter Boettke (Elgar Publishing, 1998)
As author or co-author
- "Beyond Equilibrium Economics: Reflections on the Uniqueness of the Austrian Tradition" (with Peter Boettke and Steven HorwitzSteven HorwitzSteven Horwitz is an American economist of the Austrian School.-Early life and education:Horwitz was born in Detroit, Michigan to Ronald and Carol Horwitz. He was raised in Oak Park, Michigan and graduated from Berkley High School in Berkley, Michigan in 1981. He graduated cum laude with an A.B...
), Market Process, 4 (2), Fall 1986 - "The Welfare State: What is Left?," Critical Review, 4 (2), 1990
- "Ludwig Lachmann and the Interpretive Turn in Economics: A Critical Inquiry into the Hermeneutics of the Plan," Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol I (1994)
- "Expanding the Anarchist Range: A Critical Reappraisal of Rothbard's Contribution to the Contemporary Theory of Anarchism," Review of Political Economy, 9 (4), 1997
- "Hayekian Socialism: Rethinking Burczak, Ellerman, and Kirzner," Rethinking Marxism, 10 (2) Summer 1998
- "Is an Independent Nonprofit Sector Prone to Failure? Toward an Austrian School Interpretation of Nonprofit and Voluntary Action" (with Peter Boettke), Conversations on Philanthropy Vol. I: Conceptual Foundations, 2004, Lenore Ealy ed.
- "Communicative Action and the Radical Constitution: The Habermasian Challenge to Hayek, Mises, and their Descendants" (with Virgil Storr), Cambridge Journal of Economics 31 (2) March 2007
External links
- The Economic Way of Thinking blog maintained with Peter BoettkePeter BoettkePeter J. Boettke is an American economist of the Austrian School.-Early life and education:Boettke was born in Rahway, New Jersey to Fred and Elinor Boettke and remained there until he moved to Pennsylvania to attend Thiel College in Greenville and later Grove City College. He became interested in...
and Scott Beaulier.