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{{short description|American philosopher and author}}
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'''David Patterson Ellerman''' (born 14 March 1943) is a philosopher and author who works in the fields of economics and political economy, social theory and philosophy, quantum mechanics, and in mathematics.  He has written extensively on [[workplace democracy]] based on a modern treatment of the labor theory of property and the theory of [[inalienable rights]] as rights based on de facto inalienable capacities.

== Education ==
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Ellerman was born 14 March 1943<ref name="cv">{{cite web|url=https://ellerman.org/Davids-Stuff/DE-RESUME-Dec-09.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae|publisher=David Ellerman}}</ref> in [[Fayette, Missouri]].

He received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1965.<ref name="cv"/>  He went on to [[Boston University]] for his graduate work, receiving an MA in philosophy of science in 1967, an MA in economics in 1968, and a doctorate in mathematics in 1972.<ref name="cv"/><ref name="thesis"/>  His PhD thesis was titled ''Sheaves Of Relational Structures And Ultraproducts'', and was advised by [[Rohit Jivanlal Parikh]].<ref name="thesis">{{cite thesis|title= Sheaves Of Relational Structures And Ultraproducts |last=Ellerman|first=David Patterson|publisher=Boston University|date=1972|id= {{ProQuest|302640987}} |type=PhD thesis}}</ref><ref>{{MathGenealogy| 109808}}</ref>

== Career ==
After his PhD, Ellerman remained teaching at Boston University in the mathematics and then the economic department until 1976.<ref name="cv"/>  He then taught economics at the [[University of Massachusetts, Boston]] until 1982, then at [[Boston College]] until 1987, and finally at [[Tufts University]] until 1990.<ref name="cv"/> In 1990, he moved to [[Ljubljana, Slovenia]], where he started a labor consulting firm.<ref name="aboutauth">{{cite book|last=Ellerman|first=David|title=The Uses of Diversity: Essays in Polycentricity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A3LnDwAAQBAJ|date=15 May 2020|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-79362-373-7|page=247|chapter=About the Author}}</ref>  From 1992 until 2003, he worked at the [[World Bank]] as an economics advisor to the Chief Economist ([[Joseph Stiglitz]] and [[Nicholas Stern]]).<ref name="cv"/><ref name="aboutauth"/>  From 2003 to 2020, he was a visiting scholar at the [[University of California, Riverside]] and since 2020, he is an associate researcher at the [[University of Ljubljana]].<ref name="cv"/><ref name="aboutauth"/>

==Books==
* ''Partitions, Objective Indefiniteness, and Quantum Reality''. SpringerNature 2024. {{isbn|9783031617867}}.
* ''The Logic of Partitions: With Two Major Applications, Logic Studies 101''. College Publications, 2023 {{isbn|9781848904408}}.
* ''New Foundations for Information Theory: Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy''. SpringerNature, 2021. {{isbn|9783030865528}}.
* ''Putting Jurisprudence Back into Economics: What is Really Wrong in Today's Neoclassical Theory''. SpringerNature, 2021. {{isbn| 9783030760960}}. 
* ''Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy''. SpringerNature, 2021. {{isbn| 9783030626761}}.
* ''The Uses of Diversity: Essays in Polycentricity''.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. {{isbn| 1793623732}}.
* ''Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance''. University of Michigan Press, 2005.  {{isbn| 0472021761}}.<ref>Reviews of ''Helping People Help Themselves'':
*{{cite journal|title= Review: Ask the Experts? The World Bank and International Development Lending in the Twenty-First Century|journal= Review of International Political Economy|volume=16|issue=2|date=2009|last=Park|first=Susan|s2cid= 153960296|jstor= 27756161|pages= 329–349|doi= 10.1080/09692290902718494}}
*{{cite journal|title=Review|last= Nutzinger|first=Hans G.|journal= Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft|trans-journal= Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics |volume=162|issue=3|date=2006|pages=540–542|jstor= 40752601}}
*{{cite journal|last1=Hillyard|first1=Daniel|last2=Hall|first2=Joshua C.|s2cid=108728608|title=David Ellerman: Helping People Help Themselves: From The World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance|journal=Knowledge, Technology & Policy|volume=20|issue=3|year=2007|pages=203–205|issn=0897-1986|doi=10.1007/s12130-007-9026-4}}
*{{cite journal|last=Schuh|first=G. Edward|date=December 2008|doi=10.1016/j.socec.2008.05.006|issue=6|journal=The Journal of Socio-Economics|pages=2566–2567|title=Book review|volume=37}}
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* ''Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life: Essays in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics''. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995.  {{isbn| 0847679322}}.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Nutzinger|first=Hans G.|date=August 1996|doi=10.1111/j.1467-6435.1996.tb01407.x|issue=3|journal=Kyklos|pages=472–473|title=Review of ''Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life''|volume=49}}</ref>
* ''Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy''. Cambridge MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992.  {{isbn| 1557863091}}.<ref>Reviews for ''Property and Contract in Economics'':
*{{cite journal|title=Review|last=Lawson|first=Colin|journal= The Slavonic and East European Review|volume=71|issue=4|year=1993|pages=792–793|jstor= 4211433}}
*{{cite journal|title=Review|last=Devine|first=Pat|journal=Economic Journal|volume=103|issue=421|year=1993|jstor=2234490|pages=1560–1561|doi=10.2307/2234490}}
*{{cite journal|last=Bartlett|first=Will|s2cid=220850066|date=May 1994|doi=10.1177/0143831x94152010|issue=2|journal=Economic and Industrial Democracy|pages=296–298|title=Reviews|volume=15}}
*{{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Stephen C.|date=December 1994|doi=10.1006/jcec.1994.1115|issue=3|journal=Journal of Comparative Economics|pages=463–466|title=Property and Contract in Economics|volume=19}}
*{{cite journal|title=Book Reviews|last=Lutz|first=Mark A.|journal= Review of Social Economy|volume=53|issue=1|year=1995|pages=141–147|doi=10.1080/00346769500000007|jstor= 29769762}}
*{{cite journal|last=Woltjer|first=Geert|s2cid=195243866|date=March 1996|doi=10.1007/bf00149085|issue=1|journal=European Journal of Law and Economics|pages=109–112|title=Book review|volume=3}}</ref>
* ''The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm''. London: Unwin Hyman Limited (HarperCollins Academic), 1990.  {{isbn| 9780044457435}}; 2016 reprint {{isbn| 1138892653}}.<ref>Reviews for ''The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm'':
*{{cite journal|last=Graeser|first=Paul|date=August 1991|doi=10.1111/j.1467-6435.1991.tb01771.x|issue=3|journal=Kyklos|pages=464–466|title=Reviews|volume=44}}
*{{cite journal|last=Quarter|first=Jack|s2cid=220838238|date=August 1992|doi=10.1177/0143831x92133010|issue=3|journal=Economic and Industrial Democracy|pages=445–447|title=Reviews|volume=13}}
*{{cite journal|last=Doucouliagos|first=Chris|s2cid=153913777|date=September 1993|doi=10.1177/048661349302500321|issue=3|journal=Review of Radical Political Economics|pages=143–145|title=Book Review: ''The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm''|volume=25}}</ref>
* ''Economics, Accounting, and Property Theory''. Lexington MA: Lexington Books, 1982.  {{isbn| 0669055522}}.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bell|first1=Philip W.|last2=Kirkland|first2=William Alexander|title=Review|journal=Accounting Review|volume=58|issue=4|date=1983|pages=846–847|jstor= 247085}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Official webpage|url=http://www.ellerman.org|name=David Ellerman's website}}
* {{Google Scholar id| mOltFLwAAAAJ}}
* [http://ssrn.com/author=294049 David Ellerman] profile on the [[Social Science Research Network]]

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