Ted A. Burczak

Ted A. Burczak

Professor
Director of Global Commerce
Economics
Philosophy, Politics, & Economics
Global Commerce
burczak@denison.edu
740-587-6747
Position Type
Faculty
Service
- Present
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Biography

Teaching economics at Denison is a great job. Having the opportunity to share one’s intellectual passions with intelligent, interested, young adults, while helping them to think more clearly, analytically, and critically, is an exciting task to wake up to every day for a faculty member who has chosen the life of the mind as one’s profession. That the job also facilitates and encourages the possibility of continual learning for oneself is icing on the cake.

Degree(s)
B.A. 1986. State University of New York at Binghamton Ph.D. 1994. University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Learning & Teaching

Courses

Econ 101: Introduction to Macroeconomics, Econ 201: Economic Justice, Econ 301: Intermediate Macroeconomics, Econ 402: History of Economic Thought II, GC 101: Commerce and Society, GC 301: Global Financial Markets

Research

My research is in the area of the history of economic thought and theories of economic justice.
Details

My research is in the area of the History of Economic Thought, particularly in the development of 20th century economic theory. I specialize in the work of F.A. Hayek, a 1974 Nobel Prize-winning economist, who was a broad interdisciplinary thinker known for his advocacy of a free market economy and related criticism of central planning. My research is a sympathetic yet ultimately critical engagement with Hayek, as I seek to develop socialist alternatives that both respond to and “fit in” with Hayek’s system of ideas. As such, I also engage with the legacies of Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes in the development of economic theory and alternative economic systems.

Works

Publications

Selected Publications:

  • Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees, ed. by T. Burczak, R. Garnett, and R. McIntyre. Routledge. 2018.
  • “Catallactic Marxism: Hayek, Marx, and the Market.” In Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees, ed. by T. Burczak, R. Garnett, and R. McIntyre. Routledge. 2018.
  • “Introduction: Marxism without Guarantees,” R. McIntyre, T. Burczak, and R. Garnett. In Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees, ed. by T. Burczak, R. Garnett, and R. McIntyre. Routledge. 2018.
  • “Socialism and Communism.” In Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics, ed. by D. Brennan, D. Kristjanson-Gural, C. Mulder, and E. Olson. Routledge. 2017.
  • “Dictating Liberty.” Review of Political Economy 26 (July 2014): 368-71.
  • “A Hayekian Case for a Basic Income,” in Basic Income and the Free Market: Austrian Economics and the Potential for Efficient Redistribution, ed. G. Nell, pages 49-64. Palgrave-MacMillan. 2013.
  • “A Socialist Spontaneous Order,” in Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition, ed. A. Farrant, pages 130-147. Routledge. 2011.
  • Socialism after Hayek. University of Michigan Press. 2006.
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