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Vanek, Jaroslav was born on April 20, 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Came to United States, 1955, naturalized, 1960. Son of Josef and Jaroslava (Tucek) Vanek.
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Vanek, Jaroslav was born on April 20, 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Came to United States, 1955, naturalized, 1960. Son of Josef and Jaroslava (Tucek) Vanek.
Certificate (State) Sorbonne, Paris, 1952. Licence Economics, University Geneva, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 1957.
Research Assistant, European Economie Community, United Nations, Geneva, 1952-1954. Teaching Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 1956-1957. Instructor, Assistant Professor, Harvard University, 1957-1964.
Visiting Professor, University Geneva, 1961-1962. Consultant, Research Project, Director, Agency International Development, Washington, District of Columbia, 1964. Association Professor, Professor of Economics, Cornell University, 1964-1967, 1966-1969.
Consultant, Government Peru, 1971. Visiting Professor, Institute, Institution Economics Science, Belgrade, 1972, University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1974, Institute, Institution Social Studies, The Hague,
9. Economics Adviser, Turkish Prime Minister Ecevit, 1978-1979.
Director STEVEN (Solar Technology and Energy for Vital Economics Needs Foundation), 1983. Carl Marks Professor International Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, since 1969. Selection Committee, National Science Foundation, USA, 1966.
Guggengeim Foundation Fellow, 1961-1962. Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellow, 1967-1968. Scholar, Netherlands Institute, Institution Advanced Study Humanities and Social Sciences,
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Co-founder, People for SelfManagement (Association for Enterprise Democracy), Federation for Economic Democracy (now Industrial Cooperative Association).
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Author: International Trade: Theory and Economic Policy, 1962, The Balance of Payments, Level of Economic Activity and the Value of Currency, 1962, The Natural Resource Content of United States Foreign Trade, 1870-1955, 1963, General Equilibrium of International Discrimination, 1965, Estimating Foreign Resource Needs for Economic Development, 1966, Maximal Economic Growth, 1968, The General Theory of Labor-Managed Market Economies, 1970, The Participatory Economy, 1971, Self-Management: Economic Liberation of Man, 1975, The Labor-Managed Economy, 1977, Crisis and Reform: East and West: Essays in Social Economy, 1989, Toward Full Democracy, Political and Economic, In Russia, 1993, Destructive International Trade: from Justice for Labour to Global Strategy, 1998, Unified Theory of Social Systems: A Radical Christian Analysis, 2000. Also manuscripts on solar technical, contributor to Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, Volume 2, 1987, Volunteer 7, 2003, inventor several solar technical designs, including solar steam engines, pumps, refrigerators, cookers, holder 1 patent.
In my life to date, I have engaged in a series of transformations, or what I call praxis progressions, going from critical reflection to action: from Stalin's serfdom to freedom of the Western white upper class. From capitalism to economic
democracy and self-management. From neoclassical economics to a critical, history-based and human-oriented study going beyond the coniines of economics.
From comfortable agnosticism to deep and all-pervasive Christian faith. From believing in economic development Western-style to assisting a sustainable human betterment of the poorest in the world through co-operation, solar energy and human technology. From the American Economic Association to association as much as possible with the poor of Calcutta, Lima, Nairobi or Manila, who indirectly are victims of the former.
The $10,000 income and $2,000 worth of energy per capita, and $100,000 of capital per job enjoyed (or suffered) by the rich of the world cannot for many reasons ever become the way of life of the 80% poor.
The sane level at which all humanity can survive indefinitely is somewhere near the order of ten times less than today’s rich, and ten times more than today’s poorest. For the latter, who also are wealthy in permanent solar energy, this promises a significant improvement in the long haul. That and the process going with it, I would call the economics of hope.
By, contrast, the potentially cataclysmic road down from the ‘non-renewable’ and ‘cancerous’ standards implicit in the present self-centred mainstream economics and ‘atom defence’ of our illgotten riches is an adjustment process which is mind-boggling: it is what I call the economics of damnation. The road up appears bright for the poor (if the rich do not destroy it), and assisting and learning from it appears to me to be the only way of redemption for the rich.
Married Wilda M. Marraffino, December 26, 1959. Children: Joseph, Francis, Rosemarie, Steven, Teresa.
