Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd

Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (December 7, 1919 – September 8, 2017)  was an American political economist, economic historian and political activist.

Academic career
From the late 1940s to the late 1990s, Dowd taught at Cornell University, UC Berkeley and other universities. He has authored books that criticize capitalism in general, and US capitalism in particular.

Many of his writings and audio transcripts are available on his website.

Personal life
Dowd was the son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father. The strong dislike for each side of the family for the other side led him during his youth to embrace an antireligious attitude.

Dowd claimed to be "non-religious" without saying if he is an agnostic or atheist.

Electoral candidate
Dowd was one of the nominees of the Peace and Freedom Party for Vice President in the 1968 US presidential election. He agreed to be on the ticket in New York in order to prevent the selection of Jerry Rubin. The party's presidential candidate that year was Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, who finished a distant fifth in the election.