The Economic Surplus, Disembedded Economy, and Nurturance Gap—The Contribution of James Ronald Stanfield to Political Economy

摘要

James Ronald Stanfield was born into a poor working class family on November 22, 1945. He was brought up in Handley, Texas, a semi-rural area at the time, went to Eastern Hills High School (in Fort Worth), and at his mother's insistence attended a Methodist church, until the age of thirteen. His parents were of Scotch-Irish and German ancestry and worked as short order cafe cooks, competing with the emerging take away fast food joints. In his late teens he took to economics as a way of getting out of the culture of poverty, expecting to become an "efficiency expert" or what is now called a management consultant. With this in mind he took a B.A. (1968) with a major in economics and an M.A. in Economics (1969) at the University of Texas at Arlington.