David Ellerman is visiting scholar at UC Riverside, and author of Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance (Evolving Values for a Capitalist World) as well as Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life. He works in the fields of economics and political economy, social theory and philosophy, and in mathematics.

 

His undergraduate degree was in philosophy at M.I.T. ('65), and he has Masters degrees in Philosophy of Science ('67) and in Economics ('68), and a doctorate in Mathematics ('71) all from Boston University. He has been in and out of teaching in economics, mathematics, accounting, computer science, and operations research departments in various universities (1970-90), founded and managed a consulting firm in East Europe (1990-2), and worked in the World Bank from 1992 to 2003 where he was an economic advisor to the Chief Economist (Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern).

Presentations

Helping People Help Themselves, presentation to Paris Uplift Academy Workshop, April 2006