Howard J Sherman

Biographic Data

ID980106
NAMEHoward J Sherman
GIVEN NAMESHoward J
FAMILY NAMESherman
SIGNATURESHERMAN H J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Riverside
ORCID0000-0002-5481-577X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS32
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1952
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Evolution, Class, and Revolution: The Progressive Method

    Open AccessHoward J Sherman, Paul W ShermanARTICLEScience & Society2025

  • The Economics Profession "Discovers" Secular Stagnation

    Open AccessMichael Meeropol, Michael A Meeropol et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review2025

    Michael Meeropol, Howard J. Sherman, and Paul D. Sherman give an account of how mainstream economists came to adopt the idea of secular stagnation, even without recognizing its origins in the work of Marxist economist and MR founder Paul M. Sweezy. The turn, they write, came in the wake of the Great Recession, when the tendency toward stagnation in the U.S. economy became undeniable

  • Foundations of Radical Political Economy

    Howard J ShermanBOOKFoundations of Radical Political…2020

    First published in 1987. Similar in content to Sherman’s previous book, Radical Political Economy, it covers most of the same issues and reaches the same overall conclusion in favour of democracy and socialism. Many of the analyses and conclusions on particular subjects, however, have changed because of the flood of new literature in every area of radical political economy and because the world has changed. The most important issue is the prevent…

  • Two Pauls

    Howard J ShermanARTICLEMonthly Review2012

    In 1957, when I was young and thought I knew everything, I was just about to go to graduate school in economics. Then I read Paul Baran’s The Political Economy of Growth. I immediately sent him an eight-page, single-spaced review of his book. I said that I liked it very much, but had some questions about it. Paul wrote back asking me to become his research assistant and study at Stanford. Unfortunately he could pay so little that it covered only …

  • Recessions and Human Misery: Dating the Cycle

    Howard Sherman, Howard J Sherman et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review2012

    The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) decides the peak and trough dates of the business cycle. Most economists, including the government economists, accept their dates as the bible of research. Their dates do accomplish what they set out to do: they reflect the highest and lowest levels of business activity. This was the definition set by the founder of the NBER and it is very useful for many purposes. Certainly, there is a major gain i…

  • Response To Three Reviews

    William M Dugger, Howard J ShermanARTICLEReview of Social Economy2002

    We are very appreciative of the thoughtful reviews by these three distinguished scholars. RESPONSE TO ENRICO MARCELLI Marcelli provides a very clear summary of our entire book, far better than any other we have seen. He particularly concentrates on the last few chapters in which we try to synthesize the different aspects of evolution into one complex process. His summary leaves little to be added on the main points of the book. Then Marcelli does…

  • Marxist Institutionalism

    Howard J ShermanARTICLEReview of Social Economy2002References: 6

  • Marx’s Ecology

    Howard J ShermanARTICLEJournal of Economic Issues2001

  • The Evolution of Law

    Howard J ShermanARTICLEMonthly Review1999

    Review of Law and History: The Evolution of the American Legal System by Anthony Chase.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

  • Critique of the Critique: Analysis of Hodgson on Marx on Evolution

    Howard J ShermanARTICLEReview of Social Economy1998References: 6

    Hodgson claims that Marxism is incompatible with Darwinian biological evolution. That was true of earlier Socialist and Communist theories of economic determinism, but it is not true of the contemporary generation of critical Marxists

  • Rejoinder to Hodgson

    Howard J ShermanARTICLEReview of Social Economy1998References: 1

    Hodgson's critiques of Marxism are irrelevant to most contemporary Marxists because they are not economic reductionists, do not believe in just two classes locked in continuous battle, and do not have a teleological view of history. Hodgson's biological metaphor is very useful for the Marxist view of social evolution as a set of relevant questions to be asked

  • Reinventing Marxism

    Kevin Anderson, Kevin J Anderson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1997

  • Reinventing Marxism

    Howard Sherman, Howard J ShermanBOOKReinventing marxism1995

    The collapse of the Soviet Union provides economist Howard Sherman with the opportunity to re-evaluate Marxism as an alternative to conventional pro-capitalist perspectives. Arguing that Soviet Marxism distorted Marxian thought, Sherman acknowledges that Marxism must move beyond its traditional Soviet formulation. What is needed, he writes, is a new, critical Marxism that is integral to a radical political economy - a Marxism that sees society as…

  • Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

    Howard J ShermanARTICLEInternational Journal of…1994Cited by: 2References: 1

    The history of the Soviet Union is unique in that it began in 1917 with a major revolution that eventually changed the mode of production, and ended in 1991 in another major revolution that is again changing the mode of production. For a major country, this is an amazing history, offering a very clear case of social evolution. To analyze this evolution, one needs a framework and a theory. Here, a Marxian approach is used, though it is very much r…

  • The Relational Approach to Political Economy

    Open AccessHoward J ShermanARTICLERethinking Marxism1993References: 5

  • Gender and Economic Ideologies

    Howard J Sherman, Julie A NelsonARTICLEReview of Social Economy1993Cited by: 6References: 18

    This article begins with an exposition and critique of ahistorical approach of neoclassical economics (similar approaches have been criticized -- and an historical approach proposed -- in anthropology by Marvin Harris, 1989, and in sociology by Eric Olin Wright, et al., 1992). Then, there a discussion of two approaches, versus critical. By official mean version of Marx taught in former Soviet Union and by most Communist parties for 70 years. By M…

  • Crises, Cycles, and Stagnation

    Open AccessHoward J ShermanARTICLEScience & Society1991References: 3

  • The Second Soviet Revolution or the Transition from Statism to Socialism

    Howard J ShermanARTICLEMonthly Review1990Cited by: 2

    The first Soviet Revolution took place in 1917; the second is presently under way. If it succeeds, the Soviet Union will undergo a profound transition from a statist political-economic system to a democratic socialist political-economic system.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

  • Theories of economic crisis: Demand-side, supply-side, and profit squeeze

    Open AccessHoward Sherman, Howard J ShermanARTICLEScience & Society1989Cited by: 3References: 2

  • Five Texts: Beautiful, Literate--and Expensive

    Patrick H Mcnamara, Earl Babbie et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1984

  • The Political Economy of Socialism: A Marxist Social Theory

    Howard J ShermanARTICLEJournal of Economic Issues1983

    (1983). The Political Economy of Socialism: A Marxist Social Theory. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 1155-1157.

  • Realization Crisis Theory and the Labor Theory of Value

    Open AccessHoward J ShermanARTICLEScience & Society1983

  • Sociology: Traditional and Radical Perspectives

    Thomas Jackson Rice, Howard J Sherman et al.ARTICLETeaching Sociology1982Cited by: 5

  • Marx and Determinism

    Howard Sherman, Howard J ShermanARTICLEJournal of Economic Issues1981

  • The Capitalist State and the Politics of Class

    Howard Sherman, Howard J ShermanARTICLEJournal of Economic Issues1979