David Levine has been Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver since 1987. Prior to joining the GSIS, he was Professor and Chair in the University’s Department of Economics. Between 1973 and 1981, he was Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University. Professor Levine was educated at the University of Wisconsin (B.A., economics, 1969), Yale University (Ph.D., economics, 1973) and The Colorado Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (Certificate in Psychoanalytic Scholarship, 1994).

He has published several dozen articles and ten books in economics and political economy, most recently Wealth and Freedom (1995), Subjectivity in Political Economy: Essays on Wanting and Choosing (Routledge 1998), Normative Political Economy: Subjective Freedom, the Market, and the State (Routledge 2001), and, with S. Rizvi, Poverty, Work and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order (Cambridge 2005). He has also published in the field of applied psychoanalysis, where his book, Attack on Government: Fear, Distrust, and Hatred in Public Life (Pitchstone Publishers), appeared in 2004. He has published papers on group and organizational dynamics; the psychology of teaching and learning; and ethics, tolerance, and difference.

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