The 2006 Veblen-Commons Award Recipient: James Ronald Stanfield

摘要

Ron Stanfield receives the 2006 Veblen-Commons Award for his intellectual and personal contributions to political economy. His major conceptual contributions encompass the economic surplus, socioeconomic reproduction, disembedded economy, and "nurturance gap." On a personal note, he first wrote to me in answer to a letter of mine in 1986, and over the past twenty years he has had an enormous impact on my academic development. His influence on many others has been similarly profound. Ron to me is, first, a composite of six of my favorite intellectual spirits all rolled into one—Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Polanyi, Eric Fromm, and John Kenneth Galbraith—and, second, of course, a creative person sui generis—original, eclectic, and innovative.