James G. Devine

Professor Emeritus of Economics

  • Los Angeles CA UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

Jim Devine is a Professor of Economics at Loyola Marymount University.

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D.

Economics

1980

Yale University

B.A.

Economics

1974

Areas of Expertise

Macroeconomics
Money and Banking
U.S. Economic History
Political Economics
Labor Economics

Affiliations

  • American Economic Association
  • Union for Radical Political Economics

Event Appearances

Objective Needs, Neediness,and Health: a Positive Analysis (the Buddhist version)

Association for Social Economics meetings of the Midwest Economics Association conference  Cincinnati, OH

Courses

Introductory Ecomomics

ECON 1050

Intermediate Macroeconomics

ECON 3200

Money and Banking

ECON 3220

Articles

Radical and Marxian Approaches to Labor Economics: Labor Markets, Labor Processes, and Exploitation

Models of Labor Markets

Bruce Kaufman, ed.

2020
Stanford University Press

Hidden Inflation An Estimate of the Cost of Living Inflation Rate

Capitalism: Radical Perspectives on Economic Theory and Policy

2015-01-01

Despite seemingly low inflation in recent years and because of official recalculations of the
inflation rate that reduce it even further, our measures of “inflation” underestimate the true
increases in the cost of living. The official measures of inflation are market oriented, that is, ...

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The Rate of Profit's role in Capitalism

Loyola Marymount University

2015-01-01

The ROP's double role. For simplicity, the wealth of possible data on recent events will be ignored. Following the Marxian tradition, I'm going to focus the rate of profit (ROP), explaining the role of its fall in causing the “Millennium Crisis.” There are two main threads...

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