Fred Magdoff is an American soil scientist. He is Emeritus Professor of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont and an adjunct professor of crop and soil science at Cornell University.[1]
He received a BA in history from Oberlin College in 1963 and both an MA in 1965 and Phd in 1969 from Cornell University in soil science.[2]
He is the son of socialist commentator Harry Magdoff.[3]
He is a regular contributor to Monthly Review.[4][5]
Books
edit- with John Bellamy Foster The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (Monthly Review Press, 2009)[6]
- with Michael Yates The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know (Monthly Review Press, 2009)[7]
- with Brian Tokar Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal (Monthly Review Press, 2010)[8]
- with John Bellamy Foster What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism: A Citizen’s Guide to Capitalism and the Environment (Monthly Review Press, 2011)[9][10]
- with Chris Williams Creating an Ecologial Society (Monthly Review Press, 2017)[11][12]
- with Harold Van Es Building Soils for Better Crops: Ecological Management for Healthy Soils
References
edit- ^ https://mronline.org/2011/11/25/magdoff251111-html/
- ^ https://www.uvm.edu/news/cals/putting-crops-test-thwarts-pollution
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/obituaries/harry-magdoff-economist-dies-at-92.html
- ^ "Interview: Fred Magdoff on What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism". 24 August 2011.
- ^ "Fred Magdoff Discusses Capitalist Agriculture| Countercurrents". 3 July 2021.
- ^ Vidal, Matt (2010). "The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences". Review of Political Economy. 22: 177–180. doi:10.1080/09538250903392143.
- ^ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309816811432878e?journalCode=cnca
- ^ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1549-0831.2012.00087_3.x
- ^ Neale, Kate; Magdoff, Fred; Foster, John Bellamy (2012). "Reviewed work: What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism: A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment, MagdoffFred, FosterJohn Bellamy". Australian Journal of Environmental Education. 28 (1): 59–61. doi:10.1017/aee.2012.7. JSTOR 26420536.
- ^ Szerszynski, Bronislaw (2013). "Book Review: What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism: A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment , by Magdoff, F. And Foster, J. B." Organization & Environment. 26 (3): 355–357. doi:10.1177/1086026612461258.
- ^ https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17175_creating-an-ecological-society-toward-a-revolutionary-transformation-by-fred-magdoff-and-chris-williams-reviewed-by-justin-bzovy/
- ^ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2277976017745196?journalCode=agsa