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About David Laibman
- David Laibman (born December 25, 1942) is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
- He received a Ph.D.
- in Economics in 1973 at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York.
- His dissertation, The Invariance Condition for Value-Price Transformation in a Linear, Non-Decomposable Two-Sector Model, dealt with problems in Marxist value theory.
- Laibman teaches economic theory, political economy, and mathematical economics, at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels at CUNY.He is the Editor of Science & Society, a quarterly Marxist journal founded in 1936.Laibman is the author of five books: Value, Technical Change and Crisis: Explorations in Marxist Economic Theory (1992), Capitalist Macrodynamics: A Systematic Introduction (1997), Deep History: A Study in Social Evolution and Human Potential (2007), Political Economy After Economics: Scientific Method and Radical Imagination (2012), and Passion and Patience: Society, History, and Revolutionary Vision (2015).He is also a fingerstyle guitarist, especially its application to the ragtime music of the early twentieth century.
- With Eric Schoenberg, Laibman recorded The New Ragtime Guitar for Folkways Records in 1970.
- His solo album, Classical Ragtime Guitar, was released by Rounder Records in 1980.
- Laibman has worked with a variety of artists in the early folk world, using his advanced finger picking technique.
- One notable album is "Way Out West" by Scottish Folksinger Alex Campbell, in 1963.
- Of note is the track "Orange Blossom Special" which showcases the talent that Laibman was developing. He issued a DVD, Guitar Artistry of David Laibman Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop, 2007.
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