Alejandro Reuss

Alejandro Reuss is an economist and historian. He holds degrees from Harvard University (BA, Social Studies), Tufts University (MA, History), and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD, Economics). He is currently a Lecturer in the Labor Studies programs at UMass Boston and UMass Amherst, where he teaches courses on labor and the U.S. economy, labor and migration, and race, class, and gender. He has also taught economics or other social science courses at Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, Wheaton (Mass.) College, Boston University, Simmons University, and Emerson College. Reuss is the author of Labor and the Global Economy (Economic Affairs Bureau, 2013) and "The Power of Capital: An Introduction to Class, Domination, and Conflict" (Economics in Context Initiative, Boston University, 2020) among many other writings on political economy issues. He is a past co-editor and editorial board member at the Economic Affairs Bureau, publisher of Dollars & Sense magazine and Real World Economics textbooks. His interests in the social sciences include labor economics and labor history, power structure research, U.S. economic history, Latin American history, the history of the world economy, the history of economic thought, and Marxian economics.