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Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (December 7, 1919 – September 8, 2017)[1][2] was an American political economist, economic historian and political activist.

Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd
Personal details
Born(1919-12-07)December 7, 1919
San Francisco, California, U.S.
DiedSeptember 8, 2017(2017-09-08) (aged 97)
Bologna, Italy

Academic career[edit]

From the late 1940s to the late 1990s, Dowd taught at Cornell University, the University of California, Berkeley and other universities. He has authored books that criticize capitalism in general, and US capitalism in particular.

He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of economic history for the academic year 1959–1960.[3]

Many of his writings and audio transcripts are available on his website.[4]

Personal life[edit]

Dowd was the son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father. The strong dislike for each side of the family for the other side led him during his youth to embrace an antireligious attitude.[5]

Dowd claimed to be "non-religious" without saying if he was an agnosticoratheist.

Politics[edit]

Dowd was one of the nominees of the Peace and Freedom Party for Vice President in the 1968 US presidential election. He agreed to be on the ticket in New York in order to prevent the selection of Jerry Rubin.[6] The party's presidential candidate that year was Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, who finished a distant fifth in the election.

Dowd was a sponsor of the War Tax Resistance project, which practiced and advocated tax resistance as a form of protest against the Vietnam War.[7]

Dowd was the faculty sponsor of the West Tennessee Voters Project in Fayette County, Tennessee, that inspired a sizable number of Cornell students to become more active in civil rights work in the South one year after the gruesome murder of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Bibliography[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ "California, Birth Index, 1905-1995". FamilySearch. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  • ^ Roberts, Sam (September 13, 2017). "Douglas Dowd, 97, Antiwar Activist and Critic of Capitalism Is Dead". The New York Times.
  • ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Douglas F. Dowd".
  • ^ "Doug Dowd online". www.dougdowd.org. Archived from the original on 9 May 2006. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  • ^ "Doug Dowd FREE online". www.dougdowd.org. Archived from the original on 4 July 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  • ^ Wells, Tom (1994). The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 264. ISBN 0-520-08367-9.
  • ^ "A Call to War Tax Resistance" The Cycle 14 May 1970, p. 7
  • ^ Mathews, Lynn (1974). "Review of The Twisted Dream". Critical Sociology. 4 (3): 98–99. doi:10.1177/089692057400400320. S2CID 143438346.
  • ^ Severson, Robert F. (1975). "Review of The Twisted Dream: Capitalist Development in the United States Since 1776. By Douglas F. Dowd". The Journal of Economic History. 35 (2): 477–478. doi:10.1017/S0022050700075227. S2CID 154170692.
  • ^ Rothbard, Murray N. (1974). "Review of The Twisted Dream: Capitalist Development in the United States Since 1776. By Douglas F. Dowd". Business History Review. 48 (4): 547–548. doi:10.2307/3113543. JSTOR 3113543. S2CID 154923998.
  • ^ Page, Barbara S. (1980). "Book Review: The Twisted Dream". Insurgent Sociologist. 9 (4): 84–86. doi:10.1177/089692058000900408. S2CID 144531177.
  • ^ "Monthly Review | Venezuela: Who Could Have Imagined?". May 2007.
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    Preceded by

    Peace and Freedom nominee for
    Vice President of the United States

    1968
    Succeeded by

    Julius Hobson (People's Party)


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