Hans G. Ehrbar's Home Page

Hans G. Ehrbar
Economics Department, University of Utah
1645 Campus Center Dr., Rm 308
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9300, USA
Tel: +1 801 581 7797
Economics office: +1 801 581 7481
Fax: +1 801 585 5649
Email regarding classes: Hans.Ehrbar@m.cc.utah.edu
Other Email: ehrbar@economics.utah.edu

The Economics of a Sick Society

Please read and respond to Hans's Statement about the War.

Hans's main web publications:

• Annotations to Marx's Capital
• Econometrics Class Notes

Hans's teaching schedule:

Fall Semester 2008

Econ 5080 and Econ 6080

This 3-credit class consists of a close reading of Marx's Capital.  It fully utilizes e-mail and the world wide web.  A lecture will be given one hour a week on the main University campus.  The day section 001 meets Friday 10:45-11:35 am in OSH 107, and the evening section 002 Tuesday 6-6:50 pm in in OSH 113.  But for those class participants who are caught up with their internet assignments these lectures are optional. Class participants communicate with the instructor and each other mainly per e-mail.  Class participants must come to campus only for the third class session (evening class Tuesday Sep 9, day class Friday Sep. 12, 2008), and for the two in-class exams.  The exam dates are September 30 and November 25 for the evening section, and October 3 and November 21 for the day section.

The Class Materials include a detailed commentary to Marx's Capital and transcripts of the email discussions of previous classes.  This class is no longer registered as a telecourse, but as a technology-enchanced course.  This means, you can enroll for this class as for any other class, it is not necessary to go through U-online and you do not have to pay the extra fee for on-line classes.

Research

Here is some of Hans's research, published or unpublished:

Revised Geometry of Mean-Variance Efficient Portfolios

1993, published in Metroeconomica

Relative Prices in the Classical Theory: Facts and Figures

1996, together with Christian Bidard

Marxism and Critical Realism

1998, Seminar Presentation at University of Utah

Graph Notation for Arrays

2000, presented at the Array Programming Languages Conference in Berlin, July 24-27, 2000.

Irrealist Lines of Defense in Econometrics

2000, presented at the International Association for Critical Realism Conference in Lancaster, August 18-20, 2000.

Critical Realist Arguments in Marx's Capital

a chapter in the book Critical Realism and Marxism, Routledge 2001.

Capitalism Today and the Labor Theory of Value

presented at the Delta Marsh Conference of the University of Manitoba, November 17, 2001, and at the ERC-METU international conference in Economics on September 14, 2002.

Dissertations

• Toudy Salem 2.3 MB
• Soner Songul 0.2 MB

Other Links

Theory of Socialism and Socialist Elements under Capitalism

• Class Materials for Econ 5540 Capitalism and Socialism in pdf.
• Free Software: The GNU Project by Richard M. Stallman.  Many free software coders consider Stallman too radical, but I think he is right on target.
• Open Source: The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond.  This view is more conciliatory with capitalism; in Raymond's view every programmer is a little capitalist accumulating prestige instead of money. 
• The free Linux operating system comes in several flavors. The freest one, which I am using, is Debian GNU/Linux.  The Chinese government, and many other countries, favor Linux.
• Links to support the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution.
• The Oekonux Web Site applies the principles of free software to other branches of the economy.
• Two free encyclopedia projects, the Wikipedia and the presently inactive Nupedia, and the Project Gutenberg, an extensive and free collection of literature.
• Indymedia, the Independent Media Center.
• Cohousing: The Cohousing Network
• Cohousing in Salt Lake City: Wasatch Commons (of which Hans is a member).

Other Links

• University of Utah Economics Department
• Advanced Technology Systems Group for obtaining an email account etc.
• U-online Technology-Assisted Curriculum Center.
• The Marxists Internet Archive
• Karl Marx's "Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie" in German is available here as a pdf-file, postscript-file for letter paper printed side-by-side, and LaTeX-file (i.e., an ascii file which can be submitted to the free typesetting program LaTeX.
• The International Association for Critical Realism, Bhaskar mailing list about critical realism info page, home archive, Utah mirror. Web Site for Critical Realism. Critical realist approaches to Marx have also been discussed in the OPE-L mailing list, official archives at http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/OPE/archive/, and Utah mirror. On September 23 and 24 2004 there will be a conference about Critical Realism in the Social Sciences at the Sociology Department of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (but apparently there is no web site for this conference yet). The Journal of Critical Realism has now an open archive for all articles through 2003, before they moved to Brill.
• The Archive for the History of Economic Thought
• AKAMAC page in Japan with resources important for Marxists.
• Marxistische Gruppe/Gegenstandpunkt's critique of Capitalist Democracy
• The Spoon Collective
• Post-Autistic Economics Network
• Hans's daughter Rachel

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