Greg Albo
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
York University
Greg Albo
"...the problem of scale is more complex than the customary contrast of small and large... The socialist intervention will introduce the distinctive principle of maximum self-management, paired only with considerations of economic viability and reasonable equity between communities, and decisively breaking with the... dominant criterion of administrative convenience to the centralized state... Any foreseeable socialist society must have fully adequate general powers, and that at the same time such powers must depend on deeply organized and directly participating popular forces."

- Raymond Williams

About:

Greg Albo teaches political economy at the Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto. He is currently co-editor of the Socialist Register. He is also on the editorial boards of Studies in Political Economy, Relay, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Canadian Dimension, The Bullet and Historical Materialism (England). Co-editor of A Different Kind of State: Popular Power and Democratic Administration and author of numerous articles in journals such as Studies in Political Economy, Socialist Register, Canadian Dimension, and Monthly Review.

Professor Albo is also on the executive of the Centre for Social Justice in Toronto. He has lectured in universities across Canada, and also in the US, Japan, Turkey, Columbia, Cuba, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Italy, Britain, Austria, Germany and elsewhere. Professor Albo’s research interests are the political economy of contemporary capitalism, labour market policies in Canada, and democratization. He teaches courses on the foundations of political economy, Canadian political economy, alternatives to capitalism, and democratic administration.

Contact:

Department of Political Science
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ONT M3J 1P3
CANADA

office: S642 Ross
phone: (416) 736-5265 ext. 88833
email: albo@yorku.ca