David Schwartzman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Schwartzman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartzman |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Biology Howard University Washington, DC 20059 |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7242-0050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
My Response to Roos and Hornborg’s Reply
My Response to Roos and Hornborg, Technology as Capital
Prefiguration and the Emergence of the Global Subject
The concept of prefiguration is discussed in the context of the potential, arguably imperative emergence of a global subject of sufficient power to overcome the global rule of capital, thereby opening a path to an ecosocialist transition to a global solar commons, terminating the political economy of capitalism on our planet. Prefigurative social formations and struggles are discussed, particularly in the global South, along with the potential ro…
The Earth is Not for Sale
"This book provides a thought provoking outline of the solutions already in hand to the challenges now facing humanity with respect to prevalent gross social and economic inequalities, ecological thresholds and tipping points, and the ever-looming threat of climate catastrophe. The authors find these solutions in the arenas of renewable energy systems, agroecological methods, and reimagined social organization. Clarity is brought to the political…
How Much and What Kind of Energy Does Humanity Need
“Communism and Science Inseparable!”– 1962 Soviet postcard, commemorating the Sputnik 1 launch of 1957Having any remaining chance to keep warming below 2°C, better 1.5° C, by 2100 will require rapi
An Ecosocialist Horizon for Venezuela
Is Zero Economic Growth Necessary to Prevent Climate Catastrophe
Ted Trainer and the Simpler Way
Alexander and Trainer's “Simpler Way” is a mixture of welcome and unwelcome advice on how humanity can meet the challenges of 21st-century capital reproduction in this time of ever-mounting threat
The Great Bifurcation and Prospects for Solar Communism in the Twenty-First Century
Confronting the challenge of dangerous climate change will require radical changes in the global physical and political economies. There is not much time left to act to reduce global carbon emissions. Unsustainable energy sources must be replaced with a high efficiency renewable energy infrastructure sufficient to bring atmospheric carbon dioxide down to a safe level and to eliminate energy poverty that now afflicts most of humanity. Success will…
Scenarios for 2050
The future of our terrestrial civilization is predictable. I expect objections pointing out that societal evolution is even more contingent on unknown variable factors than the history of life, ass
A Critique of Degrowth and its Politics
The degrowth program is highly problematic because of its failure to analyze the qualitative aspects of economic growth and its emphasis on the local economy without recognizing the urgency to addr
Schwartzman Replies to Blackwater
Green New Deal
Let me first provoke: the lack of strategic thinking is the great deficiency of much of what calls itself Left today. Saying or even demonstrating with great eloquence that capitalism must be repla
Response to Næss and H⊘yer
Ecosocialism or Ecocatastrophe
The “practical struggle” opening up a path to a socialist future is now compelled to confront the looming threat of ecocatastrophe stemming from climate change. In what follows, other interlinked f
The Limits to Entropy
The continuing use of Georgescu-Roegen's theory of entropy by neo-Malthusians as foundational support for their views comes as no surprise. Lately, those warning of a Hubbert Peak apocalypse have commonly drawn from the same conceptual well. But unfortunately even Marxist scholars still do the same. Paul Burkett's recent paper supporting Georgescu-Roegen's fourth law of thermodynamics attempts to seek convergence of Marxist theory with ecological…
Another Look at the End of the World
Doug Boucher ([email protected])teaches ecology at Hood College in Frederick, MD, and works on rain forest ecology and forestry on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. David Schwartzman is a biogeochemist in the Biology Department at Howard University ([email protected]). His book Life, Temperature, and the Earth: the Self-Organizing Biosphere appeared in paperback last fall (Columbia University Press). Jane Zara has a Ph.D. in biochemistry and mole…
Black Unemployment
In the post-World War II era, the U.S. government's full employment policy led to rapid mechanization of production by reducing the cost of financing investment. The mechanization of production displaced more blacks than whites because blacks were disproportionately unskilled. In addition, the growth in the import of manufactured goods further reduced the demand for unskilled labor. The author argues that the government should fill the gap with g…
Black Male Unemployment
Public policies intended to raise the wages of unskilled workers, equalize educational opportunity, stabilize employment, and increase imports were sources of the growth of unskilled and, therefore, of black unemployment since 1950. The wartime wage-equalization policy and postwar minimum-wage policies raised the cost of unskilled labor relative to that of capital and of skilled labor. The Fed's inflationary full-employment policy between 1950 an…
Comment on Wagar
Wagar's paper is most welcome for reviving attention to the vital role that a transnational political party might play in global politics. I fully agree with Warren that globalization from above is the material reality that will, sooner or later, engender the self-organization of a countervailing "globalization from below," including the emergence of world parties. His vision is both utopian and "as radical as reality itself." While progressive t…
Solar Communism
A global economy powered by non-solar energy sources is limited by global wanning, finite reserves and concomitant insults to the earth's biosphere, including our own species. Some of these impacts, such as loss of biodiversity, will be irreversible. Without constraints on the reproduction of capital, the global driver of the contemporary environmental crisis, these impacts will intensify. This is not a necessary outcome for an economy utilizing …
Evolution and Seti
Competition and Efficiency
Uncertainty and the Size of the Firm
The Politics of Distribution . Joseph Cornwall Palamountain, Jr
A Critique of Degrowth and its Politics
The degrowth program is highly problematic because of its failure to analyze the qualitative aspects of economic growth and its emphasis on the local economy without recognizing the urgency to addr
Ecosocialism or Ecocatastrophe
The “practical struggle” opening up a path to a socialist future is now compelled to confront the looming threat of ecocatastrophe stemming from climate change. In what follows, other interlinked f
The Limits to Entropy
The continuing use of Georgescu-Roegen's theory of entropy by neo-Malthusians as foundational support for their views comes as no surprise. Lately, those warning of a Hubbert Peak apocalypse have commonly drawn from the same conceptual well. But unfortunately even Marxist scholars still do the same. Paul Burkett's recent paper supporting Georgescu-Roegen's fourth law of thermodynamics attempts to seek convergence of Marxist theory with ecological…
Green New Deal
Let me first provoke: the lack of strategic thinking is the great deficiency of much of what calls itself Left today. Saying or even demonstrating with great eloquence that capitalism must be repla
Is Zero Economic Growth Necessary to Prevent Climate Catastrophe
Another Look at the End of the World
Doug Boucher ([email protected])teaches ecology at Hood College in Frederick, MD, and works on rain forest ecology and forestry on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. David Schwartzman is a biogeochemist in the Biology Department at Howard University ([email protected]). His book Life, Temperature, and the Earth: the Self-Organizing Biosphere appeared in paperback last fall (Columbia University Press). Jane Zara has a Ph.D. in biochemistry and mole…
An Ecosocialist Horizon for Venezuela
Ted Trainer and the Simpler Way
Alexander and Trainer's “Simpler Way” is a mixture of welcome and unwelcome advice on how humanity can meet the challenges of 21st-century capital reproduction in this time of ever-mounting threat
Black Male Unemployment
Public policies intended to raise the wages of unskilled workers, equalize educational opportunity, stabilize employment, and increase imports were sources of the growth of unskilled and, therefore, of black unemployment since 1950. The wartime wage-equalization policy and postwar minimum-wage policies raised the cost of unskilled labor relative to that of capital and of skilled labor. The Fed's inflationary full-employment policy between 1950 an…
Uncertainty and the Size of the Firm
My Response to Roos and Hornborg, Technology as Capital
Prefiguration and the Emergence of the Global Subject
The concept of prefiguration is discussed in the context of the potential, arguably imperative emergence of a global subject of sufficient power to overcome the global rule of capital, thereby opening a path to an ecosocialist transition to a global solar commons, terminating the political economy of capitalism on our planet. Prefigurative social formations and struggles are discussed, particularly in the global South, along with the potential ro…
The Great Bifurcation and Prospects for Solar Communism in the Twenty-First Century
Confronting the challenge of dangerous climate change will require radical changes in the global physical and political economies. There is not much time left to act to reduce global carbon emissions. Unsustainable energy sources must be replaced with a high efficiency renewable energy infrastructure sufficient to bring atmospheric carbon dioxide down to a safe level and to eliminate energy poverty that now afflicts most of humanity. Success will…
Scenarios for 2050
The future of our terrestrial civilization is predictable. I expect objections pointing out that societal evolution is even more contingent on unknown variable factors than the history of life, ass
Response to Næss and H⊘yer
How Much and What Kind of Energy Does Humanity Need
“Communism and Science Inseparable!”– 1962 Soviet postcard, commemorating the Sputnik 1 launch of 1957Having any remaining chance to keep warming below 2°C, better 1.5° C, by 2100 will require rapi
Schwartzman Replies to Blackwater
Solar Communism
A global economy powered by non-solar energy sources is limited by global wanning, finite reserves and concomitant insults to the earth's biosphere, including our own species. Some of these impacts, such as loss of biodiversity, will be irreversible. Without constraints on the reproduction of capital, the global driver of the contemporary environmental crisis, these impacts will intensify. This is not a necessary outcome for an economy utilizing …
Competition and Efficiency
A Note on the Supply of Female Labor
THIS note 1 deals with the measurement of the supply curve of female for the economy as a whole. It is not to be interpreted as a study of the supply for particular industries or occupations. In I940 for the first time the Bureau of the Census included data on wages and salary incomes in its Census of Population. The concept of labor was substituted for Earnings data were classified by sex. These changes in the presentation of population statisti…
The Politics of Distribution . Joseph Cornwall Palamountain, Jr
Uncertainty and the Size of the Firm
Competition and Efficiency
Evolution and Seti
Comment on Wagar
Wagar's paper is most welcome for reviving attention to the vital role that a transnational political party might play in global politics. I fully agree with Warren that globalization from above is the material reality that will, sooner or later, engender the self-organization of a countervailing "globalization from below," including the emergence of world parties. His vision is both utopian and "as radical as reality itself." While progressive t…
Solar Communism
A global economy powered by non-solar energy sources is limited by global wanning, finite reserves and concomitant insults to the earth's biosphere, including our own species. Some of these impacts, such as loss of biodiversity, will be irreversible. Without constraints on the reproduction of capital, the global driver of the contemporary environmental crisis, these impacts will intensify. This is not a necessary outcome for an economy utilizing …
Black Unemployment
In the post-World War II era, the U.S. government's full employment policy led to rapid mechanization of production by reducing the cost of financing investment. The mechanization of production displaced more blacks than whites because blacks were disproportionately unskilled. In addition, the growth in the import of manufactured goods further reduced the demand for unskilled labor. The author argues that the government should fill the gap with g…
Black Male Unemployment
Public policies intended to raise the wages of unskilled workers, equalize educational opportunity, stabilize employment, and increase imports were sources of the growth of unskilled and, therefore, of black unemployment since 1950. The wartime wage-equalization policy and postwar minimum-wage policies raised the cost of unskilled labor relative to that of capital and of skilled labor. The Fed's inflationary full-employment policy between 1950 an…
Another Look at the End of the World
Doug Boucher ([email protected])teaches ecology at Hood College in Frederick, MD, and works on rain forest ecology and forestry on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. David Schwartzman is a biogeochemist in the Biology Department at Howard University ([email protected]). His book Life, Temperature, and the Earth: the Self-Organizing Biosphere appeared in paperback last fall (Columbia University Press). Jane Zara has a Ph.D. in biochemistry and mole…
The Limits to Entropy
The continuing use of Georgescu-Roegen's theory of entropy by neo-Malthusians as foundational support for their views comes as no surprise. Lately, those warning of a Hubbert Peak apocalypse have commonly drawn from the same conceptual well. But unfortunately even Marxist scholars still do the same. Paul Burkett's recent paper supporting Georgescu-Roegen's fourth law of thermodynamics attempts to seek convergence of Marxist theory with ecological…
Response to Næss and H⊘yer
Ecosocialism or Ecocatastrophe
The “practical struggle” opening up a path to a socialist future is now compelled to confront the looming threat of ecocatastrophe stemming from climate change. In what follows, other interlinked f
Green New Deal
Let me first provoke: the lack of strategic thinking is the great deficiency of much of what calls itself Left today. Saying or even demonstrating with great eloquence that capitalism must be repla
A Critique of Degrowth and its Politics
The degrowth program is highly problematic because of its failure to analyze the qualitative aspects of economic growth and its emphasis on the local economy without recognizing the urgency to addr
Schwartzman Replies to Blackwater
The Great Bifurcation and Prospects for Solar Communism in the Twenty-First Century
Confronting the challenge of dangerous climate change will require radical changes in the global physical and political economies. There is not much time left to act to reduce global carbon emissions. Unsustainable energy sources must be replaced with a high efficiency renewable energy infrastructure sufficient to bring atmospheric carbon dioxide down to a safe level and to eliminate energy poverty that now afflicts most of humanity. Success will…
Scenarios for 2050
The future of our terrestrial civilization is predictable. I expect objections pointing out that societal evolution is even more contingent on unknown variable factors than the history of life, ass
Is Zero Economic Growth Necessary to Prevent Climate Catastrophe
Ted Trainer and the Simpler Way
Alexander and Trainer's “Simpler Way” is a mixture of welcome and unwelcome advice on how humanity can meet the challenges of 21st-century capital reproduction in this time of ever-mounting threat
An Ecosocialist Horizon for Venezuela
How Much and What Kind of Energy Does Humanity Need
“Communism and Science Inseparable!”– 1962 Soviet postcard, commemorating the Sputnik 1 launch of 1957Having any remaining chance to keep warming below 2°C, better 1.5° C, by 2100 will require rapi
The Earth is Not for Sale
"This book provides a thought provoking outline of the solutions already in hand to the challenges now facing humanity with respect to prevalent gross social and economic inequalities, ecological thresholds and tipping points, and the ever-looming threat of climate catastrophe. The authors find these solutions in the arenas of renewable energy systems, agroecological methods, and reimagined social organization. Clarity is brought to the political…
Prefiguration and the Emergence of the Global Subject
The concept of prefiguration is discussed in the context of the potential, arguably imperative emergence of a global subject of sufficient power to overcome the global rule of capital, thereby opening a path to an ecosocialist transition to a global solar commons, terminating the political economy of capitalism on our planet. Prefigurative social formations and struggles are discussed, particularly in the global South, along with the potential ro…
My Response to Roos and Hornborg, Technology as Capital
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