Geert Reuten
Encyclopedia
Thaddeus Antonius Gerardus Maria (Geert) Reuten (Heerlen, April 16, 1946) is a Dutch politician and economist. On behalf of the Socialist Party
Socialist Party (Netherlands)
The Socialist Party is a democratic socialist political party in the Netherlands. After the 2006 general election, the Socialist Party became one of the major parties of the Netherlands with 25 seats of 150, an increase of 16 seats. The party was in opposition against the fourth Balkenende cabinet...

 since June 2007 he is a member of the First Chamber. Reuten also teaches economics at the University of Amsterdam and is internationally recognized as an expert on Marx and Hegel.

Reuten studied economics and sociological economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and at the Birkbeck College of the University of London. He graduated in 1988 from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). From 1977 he was lecturer and later professor at the UvA. From 2002 he is director of the Master of Economics at the same university. His prominent work The Capitalist System is now also used as a text book in University of Amsterdam for advanced BSc and MSc course.

He joined in Socialist Party and since that year as the economic adviser to the party in the House. In the first election in 2007 he was elected to the Senate. He was sworn in on June 12, 2007. Reuten has also been active in the alter-association Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens, ATTAC.

The Dutch actress Thekla Reuten
Thekla Reuten
Thekla Simona Gelsomina Reuten is a Dutch actress.Reuten was born in Bussum, Netherlands, the daughter of an Italian mother and a Dutch father. Reuten portrayed Duncan MacLeod's love interest Anna in Highlander: The Source, released in September 2007...

is one of his daughters.
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK