Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd Explained

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

Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd
Birth Date:7 December 1919
Birth Place:San Francisco, California, U.S.
Death Place:Bologna, Italy

Academic career

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

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 agnostic or atheist.

Politics

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: California, Birth Index, 1905-1995. FamilySearch. 15 August 2013.
  2. News: Sam . Roberts . Douglas Dowd, 97, Antiwar Activist and Critic of Capitalism Is Dead . . September 13, 2017 .
  3. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Douglas F. Dowd.
  4. Web site: Doug Dowd online . www.dougdowd.org . 12 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060509223418/http://www.dougdowd.org/ . 9 May 2006 . dead.
  5. Web site: Doug Dowd FREE online . www.dougdowd.org . 12 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070704175656/http://www.dougdowd.org/ . 4 July 2007 . dead.
  6. Book: Wells, Tom . The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam . Berkeley . University of California Press . 1994 . 264 . 0-520-08367-9 .
  7. "A Call to War Tax Resistance" The Cycle 14 May 1970, p. 7
  8. Mathews, Lynn. Review of The Twisted Dream. Critical Sociology. 4. 3. 98–99. 1974. 10.1177/089692057400400320. 143438346.
  9. 10.1017/S0022050700075227. Review of The Twisted Dream: Capitalist Development in the United States Since 1776. By Douglas F. Dowd. 1975. Severson. Robert F.. The Journal of Economic History. 35. 2. 477–478. 154170692 .
  10. Review of The Twisted Dream: Capitalist Development in the United States Since 1776. By Douglas F. Dowd. 10.2307/3113543. 3113543. 1974. Rothbard. Murray N.. Business History Review. 48. 4. 547–548. 154923998 .
  11. 10.1177/089692058000900408. Book Review: The Twisted Dream. 1980. Page. Barbara S.. Insurgent Sociologist. 9. 4. 84–86. 144531177.
  12. Web site: Monthly Review | Venezuela: Who Could Have Imagined?. May 2007.

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