Robin Hahnel is professor emeritus at American University in Washington, DC, and visiting professor in the department of economics at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where he now resides. He has also taught at the University of Maryland, the Catholic Universities in Panama and Peru, and Lewis and Clark College. He is the author of Economic Justice and Democracy (2005), The ABCs of Political Economy (2002), Panic Rules! (1999), and The Political Economy of Participatory Economics (with Michael Albert, 1991).