Contact
Charles A. Barone

Professor of Economics (1975)
Landis #7

717-245-1404

barone@dickinson.edu


http://www.dickinson.edu/~barone/

Education

Ph.D., The American University, Washington, D.C., 1978
B.A. Economics, The American University, Washington, D.C., 1971


Professional Experience
1975-present Dickinson College, Professor
1973-1974 The American University, Instructor

Research & Fields of Interest
Class and Classism
Race, Class, & Gender
Feminism
Radical Political Economy
Heterodox Economics
Personal and Social Dynamics of Oppression
Globalization and Capitalism
International Trade and Development

Specializes in U.S. political economy with special emphasis on wealth and income distribution, labor issues, and race, class, and gender discrimination.  He is also interested in the social and psychological dynamics of prejudice and discrimination.  His most recent publications examine the social and economic dimensions of class and classism, and he wrote a new economics text for 2004.

Courses Taught
The American Mosaic Semester (with Sharon O'Brien and Susan Rose)
Race, Class, and Gender (with Susan Rose)
Poor in America
Political Economy of Diversity
U.S. Economic Decline and Revitalization (seminar)
Contending Economic Perspectives
Introduction to Women's Studies (with Sharon O'Brien)
Contemporary Economics
Introduction to Macroeconomics
Economy and Society
Radical Political Economy
International Economics
Economics of Karl Marx
Political Economy of the Third World
Intermediate Microeconomics
Economics of Multinational Economics (Seminar)
Urban Political Economy
Work in America
Education, Social Change, and the Individual (Nisbet Seminar)

Recent Publications
"Radical Political Economy: A Concise Introduction" M. E. Sharp, Inc., 2004
"The Economic Foundations of Class and Classism" Working Paper 2000
"The Foundations of Class, Race, Gender and Classism," with Jean Ait
Belkir in Introduction to Race, Gender, and Class Studies American
Sociology Association 1999.
"Extending Our Analysis of Class Oppression: Bringing Classism More
Fully Into the Race & Gender Picture," Race, Gender, and Class 1999
"The Political Economy of Classism: Towards a More Integrated
Multilevel View," Review of Radical Political Economics Spring 1998
"Personal and Social Dynamics of Oppression and Liberation" Dickinson
College Working Paper, 1995.
"American Mosaic: An Experiment in Community-Based Multicultural
Education" Joint Presentation at the American Studies Association
Meetings in Seattle Nov 1998.
"Listening for a Change: Reflections of a Political Economist," an
American Mosaic Semester panel presented at the American Ethnology
and Education meetings in March 1997; at the Oral History Association
meetings September 1997; and at the Educating One-Third of Nation
Conference October 1997.
"Contending Economic Perspectives: Curricular Reform in Economics,"
Journal of Economics Education Winter 1991.