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89 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z L A I B M A N LAIBMAN DAVID The boys. THEN AND NOW 4 B.S., Economics 4 Ph.D, Economics, New School for Social Research FAMI LY 4 Wife, Marcia 4 Daughter, Leslie 4 Stepchildren, Antony and Raquel 4 Grandson, Henry and step- grandson, Spencer ADDRESS 4 50 Plaza St. E, #2C Brooklyn, NY 11238 CONTACT 718 789-9565 dlaibman@scienceandsociety.com I G R AV I T A T E D T O NewYork City after Antioch—a sort of call-to-roots going back to childhood.The heady politics of the late ’60s were the center for me: the anti-Vietnam War movement, freedom rides. I joined the editorial staff of New World Review , a monthly journal devoted to sympa- thetic reporting on the USSR, China, Vietnam, Cuba, and that connection lasted for some 20 years. Graduate study followed at Brooklyn College, then at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.Got my Ph.D. in economics in 1973,with dissertation on Marxist value theory. This led to an assistant professor- ship at Brooklyn College, where I had been teaching since 1967.That connection lasted 43 years; I became professor emeritus in 2010. Over the decades, I taught intermittently at Stanford University, the CUNY Graduate School, and the New School, and I’ve taught or lectured in Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, Greece, Italy, Spain,Venezuela, Russia, South Korea and China. I’ve written five books (not counting edited collections and the like): the first, Value, Technical Change and Crisis , from M. E. Sharpe in 1992, and the most recent, Passion and Patience: Society, History and Revolutionary Vision ,from International Publishers in 2015. The latter book is a compila- tion of editorial essays written for Science & Society , a Marxist quarterly journal, where I became editor in 1990. My work with S&S, which be- gan in 1973, has been a major life- time commitment,which is ongoing. I’ve also had articles published in many professional journals, includ- ing the Quarterly Journal of Economics , the American Economic Review , and the Review of Radical Political Economics .My intellectual interests cover many ar- eas in Marxist economic and social theory including capitalist growth and crisis, the theory of the socialist economy and ongoing efforts to im- prove the foundations of historical materialism. I’ve been a long-time and active member of the Union for Radical Political Economics. When I’m not following aca- demic and political pursuits, I’ve tried to keep up a long-time inter- est inAmerican folk-style instrumen- tal guitar, and the roots music tradi- tion. Together with my cousin, Eric Schoenberg, I recorded “The New Ragtime Guitar” for Folkways in 1970, an album that is regarded as germinal for the emergent ragtime guitar instrumental community.This was followed by “Classical Ragtime Guitar,” from Rounder Records in 1980, and,more recently, several CDs and DVDs of finger-style guitar in- strumentals, including my own com- positions, from Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop. I was a featured performer at Guitar Festivals in Stamford (U.K.) and in Denmark and did a four-concert tour in Japan in 2011. I play and sing, intermittently, at local venues in NewYork, combin- ing guitar solos with my older love for folk, labor and revolutionary songs and group singing, in the Pete Seeger tradition. (I first encountered Pete when I was a 10-year-old sum- mer camper, and have been a devo- tee ever since.) I married in 1967. My daughter Leslie is a music specialist teacher at a private elementary school in Seattle, where she lives with her husband, Jay, and my grandson, Henry, now four years old. My wife, Marcia, is a retired healthcare and trade union program administrator; she has two children, Antony and Raquel; Raquel is the mother of my other (step)grandson, Spencer, two years old, who lives near us and keeps us busy!