Massimo De Angelis obtained a PhD in Economics at the University of Utah in 1995 and a Laurea in Political Sciences at the Universita' Statale di Milano in 1985. He is a critical political economist. He is author of several research publications on value theory, globalisation, social movements and the political reading of economic narrative. His most recent book, The Beginning of History: Value Struggle and Global Capital, came out in 2007 with Pluto press.

He has a blog at the The Commoner site. This is a web journal that he edits.

• political economy of global economic and financial flows
• social movements and global economic practices
• economic and development discourse
• social change.

• AI2201 (Development Theory and Practice)
• AI3203 (Food, Hunger and Development)
• AI1203 (An Introduction to Political Economy of International Development)
• AI3202 (NGO Placement)

At the MA level:

• I contribute to AIM201 (Development management in context).

Books:

• The Beginning of History. Value Struggles and Global Capital. London: Pluto Press. 2007.
• Keynesianism, Social Conflict and Political Economy. London: Macmillan 2000. A second paperback edition is now being considered by Pluto press.

Refereed Publications:

• (With David Harvie, University of Leicester). “Globalization no questions! Labour commanded and Foreign Direct Investment.” Review of Radical Political Economics, Forthcoming.
• “How?!?! An Essay on John Holloway’s Change the World without Taking Power.” In Historical Materialism 13(4) 233-249. 2005.
• “PR like PRocess! Strategy from the Bottom-Up. Theory and politics in organization.” In ephemera 2005 ISSN 1473-2866, volume 5(2): 193-204, http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/5-2/5-2deangelis.pdf
• “The New Commons in Practice: Strategy, Process and Alternatives.” In Development, Volume 48: 2, 2005.
• The Political Economy of Neoliberal Global Governance. In Review (Fernand Braudel Center), XXVIII, 3, 2005.
• “Zapatismo and Globalization as Social Relations” in Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. Volume 29: 1, 2005. Also translated into Turkish as "Zapatismo" ve Toplumsal Iliski Olarak Küresellesme, Conatus no.5, April-July 2006, pp. 177-189.
• “’Opposing Fetishism by Reclaiming our Powers’. The Social Forum Movement, Capitalist Markets and the Politics of Alternatives” International Social Science Journal, N. 1882 (December 2004). Also translated into Italian
• "Separating the Doing and the Deed: Capital and the Continuous Character of Enclosures.” Historical Materialism. 12: 2, 2004.
• “The Networker's Querist. Some Questions and Tentative Answers on Networks and Social Transformation.” Proteo. (Politics and economics refereed journal of the Italian research institute CESTES). May 2003.
• "Reflections on Alternatives, Commons and Communities". In The Commoner, N. 6, 2003.
• "The Market as a Disciplinary Order: a Comparative Analysis of Hayek and Bentham". In Research in Political Economy, N.20, 2002.
• "Capital Movements, Tobin Tax, and Permanent Fire Prevention: a Critical Note." In Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 22, No. 2, Winter 1999-2000. An earlier verison here.
• "Social Relations and the Keynesian Multiplier." In Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 32. No 1, 2000.
• "Globalisation, New Internationalism and the Zapatistas." In Capital and Class, 70, Spring 2000.
• “Introduction to the report on the 2nd Encounter for Humanity and against Neoliberalism.” In Capital and Class, Number 65, Summer 1998, pp. 135-142.
• “Class Struggle and Economics: the Case of Keynesianism.” In Research in Political Economy, Volume 16, 1997, pp. 3-54.
• Entrevista de Ana Esther Ceceña con Adelina Bottero, Luciano Salza, Fiederike Habermann, Marc Tomsin, Massimo De Angelis y Ulrich Brand. ¿Cómo ve Europa a los zapatistas? In Chiapas, Number 4, 1997. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. pp. 111-133.
• "L’economia e l’umanita’." In Vis à Vis, vol.5 (1997), pp. 13-30.
• “La Realidad in Europe: an account of the first European meeting against neoliberalism and for humanity, Berlin 30 May - 2 June 1996.” In Common Sense, (Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Socialist Economists), Number 20 1997.
• “Social Relations, Commodity-Fetishism and Marx’s Critique of Political Economy.” In Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 29, N. 4, December 1996.
• “Autonomia dell’economia e globalizzazione.” In Vis à Vis, N. 4, Bologna, Winter 1996. Translated into English and published in Reconstruction, Melbourne 1996/1997 and In Common Sense (Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Socialist Economists), Number 21, 1997, pp. 41-59 as “The autonomy of the economy and globalization.” Also translated into Korean and published in a book titled “Neoliberalism and World People’s Movements”, Nanul Publishing Company, Seul 1998.
• "Beyond the Technological and the Social Paradigm: a Political Reading of Abstract Labour as substance of Value." I n Capital and Class, 57, Autumn 1995.
• "Lavoro e mercato del lavoro capitalistico tra Auschwitz e il comunismo: `crisi dell'occupazione', strategie del capitale e ipotesi strategiche per l'autonomia." In Vis à Vis, N. 2, Bologna, Spring 1994.
• "Intervista teorico/politica a prof. Harry Cleaver." In Vis à Vis, N. 1, Bologna, Autumn 1993. Translated into English and published in Reconstruction, N. 9, Melbourne, Summer 1996.
• "Lavoro, Valore e Autonomia: note sul lavoro astratto come sostanza di valore." In Vis à Vis, Bologna, Autumn 1993.

Self-published articles:

• “Measure, excess and translation: some notes on cognitive capitalism”, in The Commoner, N. 12, Spring/summer 2007 http://www.commoner.org.uk/12deangelis.pdf.
• “Value(s), Measure(s) and Disciplinary Markets”. In The Commoner, N. 10, Spring/Summer 2005, http://www.commoner.org.uk/10deangelis.pdf.
• “Neoliberal Global Governance and Accumulation”. In The Commoner, N. 7, Spring/Summer 2003, http://www.commoner.org.uk/07deangelis.pdf.
• "Reflections on Alternatives, Commons and Communities". In The Commoner, N. 6, Winter 2003, http://www.commoner.org.uk/deangelis06.pdf.
• Marx and primitive accumulation: the continuous character of capital’s “enclosures”. The Commoner, N. 2, September 2001, http://www.commoner.org.uk/02deangelis.pdf.
• Global Capital, Abstract Labour, and the Fractal Panopticon. The Commoner, N. 1- May 2001, http://www.commoner.org.uk/fractalpanopt.pdf.