Curriculum Vitae
Minqi Li
Department of Economics
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
Phone: 801-828-5279;
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Economics (2002)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.A. (summa cum laude) Economics
University of Delaware (1996)
Undergraduate, Economic Management
Beijing University (1987-90, see other experience)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2016-
Professor
Department of Economics, University of Utah
2010-2016
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, University of Utah
2006-2010
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, University of Utah
2003- 2006
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science and Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University.
2002-2003
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Franklin and Marshall College.
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OTHER EXPERIENCE
1990-1992
Political Prisoner (two-year imprisonment for advocating workers’ democracy)
HONOURS AND AWARDS
University of Utah
2010
York University
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts
University of Delaware
2006
2002
2000
1999
1999
1996
Superior Research Award (College of Social and
Behavioral Science)
Merits Award for Research (Faculty of Arts)
Department Award for Superior Teaching
Graduate School Fellowship
Teaching Assistant Award
Distinction of Theory Comprehensive Examinations
Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award
PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Peer Reviewed Publications
1. Books
Ziben de Zhongjie (The End of Capital: A Popular Political Economy Textbook for the 21st
Century), Beijing: People’s University Press (2016) (with Zhang Yaozu, Xu Zhun, and Qi Hao).
China and the Twenty-First Century Crisis. London: Pluto Press (October 2015).
Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Limits to China’s Economic Growth. London: Routledge
(February 2014).
The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy. London: Pluto Press; New
York: Monthly Review Press (November 2008 / January 2009).
2. Articles in Refereed Journals
“China’s Changing Class Structure and National Income Distribution,” Journal of Labor and
Society (2107, forthcoming).
“Endless Accumulation, Limits to Growth, and the Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall.”
World Review of Political Economy 7(2): 162-181 (Summer 2016).
“Are Chinese Workers Paid the Correct Wages?: Measuring Wage Underpayment in the Chinese
Industrial Sector, 2005-2010.” Review of Radical Political Economics 47(3): 1-14, doi:
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10.1177/0486613414542780 (August 2014, with Zhun Xu and Ying Chen)
“China’s Grain Production: A Decade of Consecutive Growth or Stagnation?”, Monthly Review
66(1): 25-37 (May 2014, with Zhun Xu and Wei Zhang).
“Climate Change and the Limits to the Growth-Oriented Model of Development: The Case of
China and India.” Review of Radical Political Economics 45 (December 2013): 449-455 (with
Chiara Piovani).
“The 21st Century: Is There An Alternative (to Socialism)?”, Science & Society 77:1 (January
2013), pp. 10-43.
“Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Limits to China’s Economic Growth,” The Chinese
Economy 45:1 (January 2012), pp.74-92.
“The Rise of the Working Class and the Future of the Chinese Revolution,” Monthly Review 63:2
(June 2011), pp. 38-51.
“Can Global Capitalism Be Saved?: Exit Strategies for Capitalism or the Humanity,” Alternate
Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research Vol. 22(2011), pp.51-70.
“One Hundred Million Jobs for the Chinese Workers!: Why China’s Current Model of
Development Is Unsustainable and How A Progressive Economic Program Can Help the
Chinese Workers, the Chinese Economy, and China’s Environment,” Review of Radical Political
Economics, 43:1 (Spring 2011), pp. 77-94 (with Chiara Piovani).
“The End of the End of History: the Structural Crisis of Capitalism and the Fate of Humanity,”
Science & Society, 74:3 (July 2010), pp. 290-304.
“Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Transition to Sustainability: Alternative Scenarios for the
US, China, and the World,” Development and Change, special Forum issue, 40:6 (December
2009), pp. 1039-1062.
“Climate Change, Limits to Growth, and the Imperative for Socialism,” Monthly Review, 60:3
(July-August 2008), pp. 51-67.
“An Age of Transition: The United States, China, Peak Oil, and the Demise of Neoliberalism,”
Monthly Review, 59:11 (April 2008), pp. 20-34.
“Long Waves, Institutional Changes, and Historical Trends: A Study of the Long-Term
Movement of the Profit Rate in the Capitalist World-Economy,” Journal of World-Systems
Research, XIII:1 (December 2007), pp. 33-54 (with Feng Xiao and Andong Zhu). Website:
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/volumes/vol13/Li_etal-vol13n1.pdf.
“Peak Oil, the Rise of China and India, and the Global Energy Crisis,” Journal of Contemporary
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Asia, 37:4 (November 2007), pp. 449-471.
“Secular Trends, Long Waves, and the Cost of the State: Evidence from the Long-Term
Movement of the Profit Rate in the US Economy 1869-2000,” Review: A Journal of the Fernand
Braudel Center for the Studies of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, XXIX:1
(March 2006), pp. 87-114 (with Adam Hanieh).
“The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy: Exploring the Historical
Possibilities in the 21st Century,” Science & Society, 69:3 (2005), pp. 420-448.
(Used as example of JEL Classification Codes – P27, Socialist Systems and Transition
Economies, Performance and Prospects:
http://www.aeaweb.org/jel/guide/econlit_xml_parse_vivisimo.php?acc_num=0789899&class=P
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“Workers’ Participation in Management and Firm Performance: Evidence for Large and
Medium-Sized Chinese Industrial Enterprises,” Review of Radical Political Economics, 36:3
(2004), pp. 358-380.
“Aggregate Demand, Productivity, and ‘Disguised Unemployment’ in the Chinese Industrial
Sector,” World Development, 32:3 (2004), pp. 409-425.
“After Neoliberalism: Empire, Social Democracy, or Socialism?” Monthly Review, 55:8 (2004),
pp. 21-36.
“China: Six Years after Tiananmen,” Monthly Review, 47:8 (1996), pp. 1-13.
3. Chapters in Books
“Political Economy of China: From Socialism to Capitalism, and to Eco-Socialism?” in Richard
Westra (ed.), The Political Economy of Emerging Markets: Varieties of BRICS in the Age of
Global Crises and Austerity, Routledge, Frontiers of Political Economy Series (March 2017).
https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Economy-of-Emerging-Markets-Varieties-of-BRICSin-the-Age/Westra/p/book/9781138121225
“China: Energy, Environment, and Limits to Growth,” Chapter in Delia Davin and Barbara
Harris-White (eds.), China-India: Paths of Economic and Social Development, Published for the
British Academy by Oxford University Press, pp. 175-192 (2014).
“Socialism: the 20th and the 21st Century,” Chapter in Robert Pollin and Jeannette Wicks-Lim
(eds.), Capitalism on Trial: Explorations in the Tradition of Thomas Weisskopf, Edward Elgar,
pp. 81-98 (2013).
“Beyond Capitalism,” Chapter 37 in Marty Wolfson and Gerald Epstein (eds.), Handbook of the
Political Economy of Financial Crises, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.736-752 (to be
published in October 2012).
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“Peak Energy and the Limits to Growth in China and the World,” in Li Xing (ed.), The Rise of
China and the Capitalist World Order, Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing House (2010).
“Limits to China’s Capitalist Development: Economic Crisis, Class Struggle, and Peak Energy,”
in Richard Westra (ed.), Confronting Global Neoliberalism: Third World Resistance and
Development Strategies. Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press (2009), pp. 88-98.
“China und der globale Klassenkampf – Passagen der Revolution? (China and the Global Class
Struggle – Passages of Revolution?” in Ingo Schmidt, ed., Spielarten des Neoliberalismus
(Varieties of Neoliberalism) (Hamburg: VSA-Verlag, VSA-Publishers, 2008), pp. 191-212.
‘China: Hyper-Development and Environmental Crisis,’ in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, eds.,
Coming to Terms with Nature (Socialist Register 2007) (London: The Merlin Press November
2006), pp. 130-146. (with Dale Wen)
“A Dialogue on the Future of China,” in Chaohua Wang, ed., One China, Many Paths (London:
Verso 2003), pp. 313-358. (with Wang Dan and Wang Chaohua)
4. Book Reviews
Review of Global Capitalism in Crisis (Murray E. G. Smith, Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood
Publishing 2010), Science & Society 73:3 (July 2012), pp. 417-418.
Review of China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism (Ho-fung Hung ed., John
Hopkins University Press 2009), China Quarterly 208: 1024-1025 (December 2011).
Review of Chinese and African Perspectives on China in Africa (Axel Harneit-Sievers et al. eds.,
Kampala, Uganda: Pambazuka Press 2010), Socialism and Democracy 25(3): 150-153
(November 2011).
Review of The Transformation of Chinese Socialism (Lin Chun, Durham, North Carolina: Duke
University Press 2006), Science & Society, 72:4 (October 2008), pp. 489-491.
Review of Economic Growth, Transition, and Globalization in China (Yanrui Wu ed.,
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar 2006), Journal of Contemporary Asia, August 2008.
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications
1. Books
Ziben de Zhongjie (The End of Capital: A Popular Political Economy Textbook for the 21st
Century), Beijing: People’s University Press (2016) (with Zhang Yaozu, Xu Zhun, and Qi Hao).
Three Essays on China’s State Owned Enterprises: Towards An Alternative to Privatization.
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Hamburg: VDM Verlag (October 2008).
2. Book Translations and Books Translated
Yukselen Cin ve Kapitalist Dunya Ekonomisinin Cokusu (Turkish Edition of The Rise of China
and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy), translated by Aytul Kantarci and Ercument
Ozkaya. Istanbul: Epos Yayinlari (2009).
Quanli yu Ziben (Power and Capital, Author: Ernest Mandel), translation from English into
Chinese. Beijing: Zhongyang Bianyi Chubanshe (The CCP Central Committee Compilation and
Translation Press 2002). (with Meng Jie)
3. Published Invited Talks or Keynote Speeches
“The 21st Century Crisis: Climate Catastrophe or Socialism” (The David Gordon Memorial
Lecture), Review of Radical Political Economics (2011).
4. Scholarly Articles in Non-refereed Journals
“China’s Falling Rate of Profit and the Coming Economic Crisis,” Economic and Political
Weekly, L(41): 27-31, October 10, 2015 (with Zhi Li).
“Global Imbalances, Peak Oil, and the Next Global Economic Crisis,” State of Nature, March
2011.
“Is Climate Stabilization Compatible with Economic Growth? (Jingji Zengzhang yu Qihou
Wending Shifou Xiang Xietiao)” Economics Study of Shanghai School No.3(2011): 156-170
“Socialism, Capitalism, and Class Struggle: the Political Economy of Modern China,” Economic
and Political Weekly, XLIII (52): 77-96, December 27, 2008 – January 2, 2009.
China – Energie, Nahrungsmittel, Klimawandel (‘Energy, Food, Climate Change, and the Rise
of China: Scenarios of Global Crisis’), Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung, 71 (September
2007), pp. 86-99.
Der Ausfstieg Chinas und das Zeitalter des Übergangs (‘The Rise of China and the Age of
Transition’), Das Argument, 268 (October 2006), pp. 105-111.
‘Global Chaos? Global Governance? – The Capitalist World Economy Series IV,’ Gaoxiao Lilun
Zhanxian (Higher Education Theoretical Forum), July 2005 (with Zhu Andong).
‘Neoliberalism and Global Economic Crisis – The Capitalist World Economy Series III,’
Gaoxiao Lilun Zhanxian (Higher Education Theoretical Forum), June 2005 (with Zhu Andong).
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‘From Colonialism to the Golden Age – The Capitalist World Economy Series II,’ Gaoxiao
Lilun Zhanxian (Higher Education Theoretical Forum), May 2005 (with Zhu Andong).
‘The Current World Historical Conjuncture – The Capitalist World Economy Series I,’ Gaoxiao
Lilun Zhanxian (Higher Education Theoretical Forum), April 2005 (with Zhu Andong).
‘The Past, the Present, and the Future of the Capitalist World-Economy,” Book-Length Special
Issue of the World Socialism Research Center, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
(December 2004) (with Zhu Andong).
“China’s Social Structure within the Purview of the World System,” Shi Jie (Horizons), 11
(2003).
‘Reading Wallerstein’s “The Capitalist World-Economy” with a Discussion of the China
Question in the First Half of the 21st Century,’ Shi Jie (Horizons), 8 (2000).
‘The Marketization of the Chinese Economy and the Role of the Public Sector,’ Zhanlue yu
Guanli (Strategy and Management), March-April 2000.
“The U.S. New Economy and the Contradictions of Modern Capitalism,” Du Shu (Reading),
November 1999.
5. Chapters in Books
“Can the Capitalist World Economy Survive the Rise of China?” in 11th International Istanbul
Biennial (2009-2010), pp. 297-313.
“Dangqian shijie jingji weiji yu zhongguo weilai (Current Global Economic Crisis and China’s
Future),” in Beida Jiangzuo (Beijing University Seminars), No. 19 (Beijing: Beijing University
Press, 2008), pp. 272-283.
‘The Past, the Present, and the Future of the Capitalist World-Economy,’ in Li Shengming, ed.,
2005 Nian Shijie Shehuizhuyi Genzong Yanjiu Baogao (2005: World Socialism Yellow Book)
(Beijing: Shehue Kexue Wenxian Chubanshe or Social Science Literature Press), pp. 378-412.
(with Zhu Andong)
‘Reading Wallerstein’s “The Capitalist World-Economy” with a Discussion on the China
Question in the First Half of the 21st Century,’ in Gong Yang, ed., Si Chao (Intellectual Currents,
Beijing: China Social Science Press 2003), pp. 89-109.
6. Working Papers
“Barbarism or Socialism: 1917-2017-2050(?)”, Agrarian South(submitted)
“Profit, Accumulation, and Crisis: Long-Term Movement of the Profit Rate in China, Japan, and
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the United States,” The Chinese Economy (submitted)
“Socialization of Risks without Socialization of Investment: the Minsky Paradox and the
Structural Contradiction of Big Government Capitalism,” The Political Economy Research
Institute of University of Massachusetts Amherst, Working Paper 205 (September 2009).
Website:
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/working_papers_201-250/WP205.pdf.
“Peak Energy and the Limits to China’s Economic Growth: Prospect of Energy Supply from
Now to 2050,” The Political Economy Research Institute of University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Working Paper 189 (December 2008). Website:
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/working_papers_151-200/WP189.pdf.
“U.S., China, and the Unraveling of Global Imbalances,” The Political Economy Research
Institute of University of Massachusetts Amherst, Working Paper 146 (October 2007). Website:
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/working_papers_101-150/WP146.pdf.
“Capitalism with Zero Profit Rate? Limits to Growth and the Law of the Tendency for the Rate
of Profit to Fall,” Department of Economics Working Paper Series No. 2007-05. Website:
http://www.econ.utah.edu/activities/papers/2007_05.pdf.
“Neoliberalism, Global Imbalances, and Stages of Capitalist Development,” The Political
Economy Research Institute of University of Massachusetts Amherst, Working Paper 110
(August 2005). Website:
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/working_papers_101-150/WP110.pdf
(with Andong Zhu).
“China’s Urban Unemployment: ‘Disguised Unemployment’ or Insufficient Aggregate
Demand?” The Political Economy Research Institute of University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Working Paper 22 (2001). Website:
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/working_papers_1-50/WP22.pdf.
7. Policy Briefs
“China’s Public Services Privatization and Poverty Reduction: Health Care and Education
Reform in China and the Impact on Poverty,” United Nations Development Programme Policy
Brief, Summer 2004 (with Andong Zhu).
8. Short Articles
“Peak Oil and the Threat to Global Economic Expansion,” The Official 2011 G20 Summit
Magazine, November 3-4, 2011, Cannes, France.
“Peak Coal and China”, July 4, 2011, Website: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8064.
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“A Harmony of Capitalism and Socialism?” (response to the Special Issue on Debate on China)
Science & Society, 73(2) (2008), pp.214-219.
“Global Capitalism in Danger,” Monthly Review Webzine, August 19, 2005. Website:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/li190805.html.
“Socialism is Dead in China, Long Live the Chinese Socialism! – A Review of China and
Socialism,” Pipan yu Sikao (Criticisms and Rethinking, Taiwan), March 2005.
“Response to Lau’s ‘China: Labour Reform and the Challenge Facing the Working Class’,”
Capital and Class, 65 (1998).
9. Article Translations and Articles Translated
“China: Hyper-Development and Environmental
Crisis,’
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Kikan
Pipuruzu
Puran (People's Plan Quarterly), Japanese Translation, February 2008 (with Dale Wen).
Conference Presentations
Panelist, “Cultural Revolution and the Historical Contradictions of Modern China,” Workshop
on the “Political Memory of the Cultural Revolution,” University of Pittsburgh, May 6, 2017,
Pittsburgh
Presentation, “Profit Rate and Accumulation: Evidence from the United States, Japan, and
China,” URPE Session in ASSA, January 7, 2017, Chicago.
Presentation, “Limits to Growth, Ratio of Accumulation, and the Tendency for the Rate of Profit
to Fall,” URPE Session on “Heterodox Macroeconomics” in ASSA, January 5, 2016, San
Francisco.
Keynote Speaker, Workshop on “Chinese Capitalism in the World System: New Perspectives”,
University of Cologne, December 12, 2015.
Plenary Speaker, “China: Number Two and Trying Harder,” World Peace Forum Teach-In,
World Peace Forum Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 25, 2014.
Panelist, “Peak Oil and the Limits to China’s Economic Growth,” Twenty-fifth Environmental
Ethics Symposium, Utah Valley University, April 3, 2014.
Plenary Speaker, “China and the Crisis of Global Capitalism,” Historical Materialism Annual
Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2012.
Presentation, “China: Peak Energy and the Limits to Economic Growth,” Association for the
Study of Peak Oil and Gas Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2011.
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Panelist, Forum on “The Global Financial Crisis 2011,” The Hinckley Institute of Politics at the
University of Utah, September 2011.
Presentation, “The Chinese and Global Workers under Inflation,” academic workshop organized
by The Chinese Workers’ Research Network, May 10-12, 2011, Beijing, China.
Panelist, AFIT Session on Global Imbalances, Western Social Science Association Conference,
Salt Lake City, April 2011.
Discussant, URPE Session on “Heterodox Comparative Economic Systems,” Annual Meeting of
the Allied Social Science Association Conference, Atlanta, January 2010.
Panelist, Forum de la Regulation 2009, “US, China, and the Structural Crisis of Global
Capitalism,” Paris, France, December 1, 2009.
Panelist, “China and the Crisis of Global Capitalism,” URPE Sessions, Annual Meeting of the
Allied Social Science Association Conference, San Francisco, January 2009.
Plenary Speaker, The Second Annual Conference of the Chinese Association of Political
Economy, Xian China, October 11-12, 2008.
Respondent, Private Symposium on “Is Capitalism Over Soon?” sponsored by International
Forum on Globalization, San Francisco, October 6-8, 2008.
Panelist, Conference on Marxism and Sustainable Development, Langfang, China, May 24-26,
2008.
Panelist, with Giovanni Arrighi and Leo Panitch, Plenary on “China and the Imperial Order,”
Historical Materialism First North American Conference, Toronto, April 24-26, 2008.
Panelist, “Climate Change and the Imperative for Socialism,” Historical Materialism First North
American Conference, Toronto, April 24-26, 2008.
Chair and Panelist, “Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the Rise of China,” Panel 31 on “China and
Globalization: Critical Perspectives,” WCAAS & SCWAS annual meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah,
September 20-22, 2007.
Panelist, “Capitalism, Socialism, and China: A World Historical Perspective,” Economic
Pluralism for the 21st Century: The Third International Conference of Associations for Pluralism
in Economics, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1-3, 2007.
Panelist and Chair of Sessions, “Capitalism with Zero Profit Rate? Limits to Growth and the Law
of the Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall,” Social Structure of Accumulation Conference,
Galway, Ireland, November 2006.
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Video: http://ssagalway.blogspot.com/2006/11/list-of-conference-videos-organised-by.html
Panelist and Translator, “World Profit Rate Long Waves and Stages of Capitalist Development,”
Comparative Political Economy Conference, Beijing, China, September 2006.
Panelist and Translator, “World Profit Rate Long Waves and Stages of Capitalist Development,”
Conference on Marxism in the Era of Globalization, Shanghai, China, April 2006.
Panelist, “Secular Trends, Long Waves, and Systemic Cycles,” The Political Economy of World
System Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, April 2005.
Panelist, “Can Neoliberalism Survive If US Current Account Deficit Is Not Sustainable / Is
Sustained?,” Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Association Conference, San Diego,
California, January 2004.
Panelist, “The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy,” Rethinking
Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, November 2003.
Panelist, “China’s Class Structure in the World System Perspective,” Socialist Scholars
Conference, New York, March 2003.
Panelist, “Public Sector Investment, Macroeconomic Stability, and Economic Democracy in the
Chinese Context,” Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Association Conference, Atlanta,
January 2002.
Chair, “Progressive Macroeconomic Policies in the Global Context,” Union for Radical Political
Economists Summer Conference, Bantam Connecticut, August 2001.
Panelist, “Workers’ Participation in Management in China,” Union for Radical Political
Economists Summer Conference, Bantam Connecticut, August 2000.
Panelist, “Contradictions of Chinese Capitalism,” Socialist Scholars Conference, New York,
March 2000.
Panelist, “The Limit to the Liberal Democratic Movement and the Future of the Chinese Left,”
Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, March 1997.
Panelist, “China: From Socialist Revolution to Capitalist Development,” International
Conference on the Chinese Cultural Revolution, New School University, New York, December
1996.
Panelist, “Capitalist Development and Class Struggle in China,” Socialist Scholars Conference,
New York, March 1996.
Invited Lectures and Talks
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“China and the 21st Century Crisis,” May 19, 2017, East Wind Bookstore, Oakland, California.
“The End of Capitalism, the End of History, or the End of Pre-History?” May 18, 2017, AsianAmerican Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
“China: 1949-1989-2030(?)” and “China, Climate Change, and the Limits to Economic Growth,”
April 1-2, 2015, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois.
“China and the Global Capitalist Crisis,” September 28, 2013, Thought Works, the India Away
Day, Bangalore, India.
“Global Crisis: Past, Present, and Future.” March 1, 2013, University of Denver.
“The Rise of China and Global Capitalism,” International Contemporary Arts Exhibition at
Venice, October 22, 2011.
“Climate Change and the Implications for Economics,” Department of Economics, University of
California Riverside, April 27, 2011.
“End of History, End of Neoliberalism, or End of Capitalism,” Global Political Economy
Program, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, March 22, 2011.
“Impending Climate Catastrophe and the Historical Possibilities of the 21st Century,” Art
Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, March 21, 2011.
“China, Peak Oil, and Climate Change,” Utah Valley University, February 11, 2011.
David Gordon Memorial Lecture, Union for Radical Political Economists Summer Conference,
July 31, 2010.
Roundtable discussion on “Climate Change: What Hope after Copenhagen,” sponsored by
Heterodox Economics Students Association, University of Utah, March 5, 2010.
Brecht Forum and the Annual Meeting of Science and Society, “Crisis and Revolution,” New
York, November 13 and 14, 2009.
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, “Socialization of Risks without
Socialization of Investment,” Amherst, Massachusetts, September 29, 2009.
Renmin University, roundtable discussion with Dic Lo, “China and the Global Financial Crisis,”
Beijing, China, July 10, 2009
Wu You Zhi Xiang (A leading academic salon in China), “The End of the End of History,”
Beijing, China, July 18, 2009.
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Marxist School at Sacramento, “The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World
Economy,” Sacramento, California, May 21, 2009.
Roundtable discussion with Wang Hui (one of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals), Zagreb
Subversive Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, May 17, 2009.
Guest Speaker, “Farewell to 1989” at Zagreb Subversive Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, May 16,
2009.
Keynote Speaker, “Global Energy, Environment, and Economy Leadership Retreat” at
University of Southern California (sponsored by Americans for Informed Democracy, National
Focus, and USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery), Los Angeles, California, April 18,
2009.
Wu You Zhi Xiang (A leading academic salon in China), “The Twenty-First Century Crisis:
China and the World,” Beijing, China, October 18, 2008.
Beijing University, “China and the Global Economic Crisis,” sponsored by the Marxist Study
Group, Beijing, China, October 17, 2008.
Department of Economics, University of Utah, “China, the US, and the Imbalanced Global
Economy,” November 30, 2007.
Department of Economics, University of Utah, Facilitator at HESA discussion on “Global
Capitalism and American Imperialism,” September 28, 2007.
Wu You Zhi Xiang (A leading academic salon in China), “US Imperialism and the Crisis of
Global Capitalism,” Beijing, China, August 2007.
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Neoliberalism, Global
Imbalances, and Stages of Capitalist Development,” Amherst, Massachusetts, October 2005.
Department of Economics, California State University at Fullerton, “Global Imbalances,
Investment Bubbles, and the End of the Chinese Economic Miracle,” Fullerton, California, April
2005.
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, “The Past, the Present, and the Future of the Capitalist
World-Economy,” Beijing, July 2004 (with Zhu Andong).
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “The Rise of China and the
Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy,” Amherst, Massachusetts, April 2003.
The Social Science Research Center, the Chinese Ministry of Education, “The U.S New
Economy, Globalization, and the Contradictions of Neoliberal Capitalism,” Beijing, July 2000.
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Communist Party of Philippines, “The Historical Significance of the Chinese Revolution and the
Future of International Socialism,” Hague, Netherlands, October 1999.
Department of History, Illinois Wesleyan University, “Political and Economic Development in
China,” April 1997.
TEACHING
Undergraduate
2006- Department of Economics, University of Utah
Current Economic Problems
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Capitalism and Socialism
Asian Economic History and Development
China and the Global Economy
History of Economic Doctrine
2003-2006
Department of Political Science, York University
Introduction to Politics (1000.06)
China: Path to Modernization and Democracy (3510.03)
Capital and Power: Global Political Economy (4291.03)
Political Economy of Global Finance (4295.03)
2002-2003
Department of Economics, Franklin and Marshall College
Introduction to Microeconomics
Introduction to Macroeconomics
China in the Global Economy
Growth, Distribution, and Technological Progress
2000 Department of Social Science, Holyoke Community College
Introduction to Microeconomics
1998-2002
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts
Introduction to Microeconomics
Introduction to Macroeconomics
International Economy
Intermediate Microeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Marxian Economics
Graduate
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2007- Department of Economics, University of Utah
Political Economy and Critique
Capitalism and Socialism
Asian Economic History and Development
History of Economic Doctrine
2004-2006
Department of Political Science, York University
Political Economy of Global Finance
Foundations of Political Economy
Political Economy of East Asia
1999 Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts
Math Review for Incoming Graduate Students
Undergraduate Supervision
Advisor, Jake Frischknecht, Honor Thesis on “The Structure of Trade in the United States and
China”, 2010-2011, University of Utah.
Advisor, Yilang Feng, “Subtle Transformation of Contemporary China: A Study of Chinese
Political Economy in the Post-Crisis World,” Honor Thesis for the Global Political Economy
Program, 2010-2011, University of Manitoba, Canada.
Graduate Supervision
1. Ph.D. Dissertation Committee
Chair, Anil Aba, “Ideology and Rhetoric in the Textbook Presentation of Mainstream Economics:
The Case of Samuelson’s Economics,” University of Utah (completed in February 2017)
Member, Daniel Noah Auerbach, Department of Sociology, University of Utah (in progress).
Chair, Huseyn Taylan Egen, Input-Output Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Trade in
Turkey (Completed in November 2015, University of Utah).
Member, Kathleen Hunt, “Hunger as A Biopolitical Condition: Rhetorics of Risk, Equity and
Entitlement in Food Security Discourses.” (Completed in April 2015, Department of
Communication, University of Utah)
Member, Alex Kangas, “The Collective Action Problem of Capitalists and the Relative
Autonomy of the State.” (Completed in April 2015, University of Utah)
Chair, Naphon Phumma, “Profit, Balance of Payment, and Economic Growth: Three Essays on
the Thai Economy, 1970-2000.” (Completed in April 2013, University of Utah)
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Chair, Chiara Piovani, “Limits to China’s Growth Model” (Completed June 2011, University of
Utah).
Member, Alper Birdal, “Incentives and Cooperation under Socialist Planning” (April 2008 to
present, University of Utah).
Member, Yongbok Jeon, “Essays on Economic Growth in Post-1978 China: A Kaldorian
Approach” (Completed in April 2008, University of Utah).
Dean’s Representative, Samuel Knafo, “The Gold Standard and the Rise of Modern Monetary
Policy” (completed in September 2005, York University).
Member, Zhijun Zhao, “Power Relationships in China’s State Owned Enterprises” (completed in
November 2004, York University).
2. Master Thesis and Master Research Project Committee
Chair, Ruiting Chen, “A New Perspective of Studying Global Health Inequalities,” April 2017.
Chair, Yina Yu, “Analysis on Household Income Distribution in Urban and Rural China with
Approximate Gini Coefficient,” April 2017
Member, Sokuntheavy Chea, “Declining Fertility in Cambodia: An Outcome of Economic and
Social Development?” April 2017
Chair, Yiyao Hong, “Forecasting China’s Natural Gas Demand and Supply,” December 2015
Ruiyi, Li, “Technical Constraints on Wind Power in China’s Gansu Province,” December 2015
Chair, Honlun Su, “Analyzing the Chinese Stock Market.” December 2015
Member, Can Xu, “Exchange Rate Forecasting Using Exponential Smooth Techniques,”
November 2015
Member, LuLu Meng, “Forecasting Foreign Exchange Rate Times Series ARIMA Model,”
November 2015
Chair, Yixin Zhang, Completed April 2015.
Chair, Xiaomeng Zhang, Completed April 2015.
Member, Yang You, Completed April 2015.
Chair, Chenrui Zhang, Completed April 2015.
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Chair, Sining Song, Completed April 2015.
Chair, Qihan Zhou, completed April 2015.
Chair, Yangtana, Li, Completed April 2015.
Member, David Leduc, “Increasing the Supply of Transplantable Organs and Tissues through
Incentives and Voluntary Transactions,” Department of Economics, University of Utah
(defended on December 19, 2014)
Member, Meng Fang, “Foreign Direct Investment and China’s Economic Growth), Department
of Economics, University of Utah (defended on December 18, 2014)
Chair, Shan Jiang, on “A Socialist Counter-Movement against Capitalist Transition in China,”
Department of Economics, University of Utah (defended on December 18, 2014)
Member, Kathryn Ecsedy, Master Thesis on “Charting a New Course: Mapping, Ethnicity, and
the Forging of National Identity in China,” Asian Studies, University of Utah (defended on May
9, 2014).
Chair, Kun Huang, on China’s Labor and Energy Terms of Trade, Department of Economics,
University of Utah (April 2014).
Member, Jae Seok Lee, “Reconsidering IMF Prescriptions for the Asian Financial Crisis, 19971999”, Department of Economics, University of Utah (December 2016)
Chair, Juanyi Xie, on Solar Energy in China, Department of Economics, University of Utah
(April 2014).
Chair, Yingying Guo, on Peak Oil and China, Department of Economics, University of Utah
(April 2014).
Chair, Yipin Fan, on Stages of Modern Chinese Economic Development, Department of
Economics, University of Utah (April 2014).
Member, Duo Zhang, on China’s Portfolio Investment, Department of Economics, University of
Utah (April 2014).
Member, Jiawei He, on China’s Foreign Direct Investment, Department of Economics,
University of Utah (April 2014).
Member, He Wang, on China’s Income Inequality, Department of Economics, University of
Utah (April 2014).
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Member, Daniel, a project on China’s local government debt, Department of Economics,
University of Utah (April 2014).
Chair, Jeffrey Young, a project on East Asian economic growth models, Department of
Economics, University of Utah (December 2013).
Chair, Yang Lu, “Sources of PM10 and Air Pollution in China,” Department of Economics,
University of Utah (December 2013).
Member, Yang You, “Gender Inequalities and Employment in Post-WTO China,” Department of
Economics, University of Utah (April 2013).
Member, Yubai Huang, “Chinese capital flows to Latin America and Their Impacts”,
Department of Economics, University of Utah (April 2013).
Chair, Mark Fox, “Globalization: Social Evolution and Ecological Development,” Department of
Economics, University of Utah (December 2012).
Member, Sofia Nystrom, “The Cost of Crime in Utah: 2005-2010—Updated Unit Cost
Estimates,” Department of Economics, University of Utah (August 2012).
Chair, Tu Wang, Research Project, “Re-evaluating China’s Economic Growth Rates, 19802009,” Department of Economics, University of Utah (May 2011).
Chair, Casey Hall Brown, Master Research Project, “Peak Oil, Coal, and Gas Production in the
United States,” Department of Economics, University of Utah (April 2011).
Member, David Fields, Master Research Project, “Exchange Rates and International Currency
Movement,” Department of Economics, University of Utah (Completed in April 2011).
Member, Chenyuan Lu, Master Program at the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
(Completed in March 2008, University of Utah).
First Reader, Tom Keefer, “On Hand Mills and Heat Engines: Peak Oil, Class Struggle, and the
Thermodynamics of Production” (Completed in October 2005, York University).
Second Reader, Ian Macdonald, “The Neoclassical Alternative to the Real World” (completed in
March 2005, York University).
3. Graduate Studies Directed Reading Courses
Mahran Mazinani, “Independent Study on World System Theories” (Fall 2009, University of
Utah).
Sonam Dolma, “Theory and Practice of Socialist Revolutions” (Winter and Fall 2004, York
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University).
SERVICE
1. University of Utah
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Research Committee, 2012Department of Economics, Master Program Director, 2016Department of Economics, Productivity Committee, 2015Department of Economics, Graduate Placement Advisor, 2008-2012.
Department of Economics, PhD Committee, 2006-.
2. York University
Department of Political Science, Curriculum Committee, 2004-2006.
Faculty of Arts, Merits Award Committee, 2004 and 2005.
Department of Political Science Undergraduate Advising, 2004-2006.
Academic Initiatives Committee, 2003-4.
Faculty of Arts Council, Political Science Representative, 2003-4.
3. Outside Affiliations
Member of Scientific Monitoring Panel, KLIEN-Project “Climates of Transformation”,
supported by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund, 2010-2012.
Academic Advisor, Wu You Zhi Xiang (A leading academic salon in China), 2009-.
Research Scholar, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
2007-.
Research Scholar, the World Socialism Research Center, the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, 2006 -.
International Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, New York: International
Working Group on Poverty and Privatization, 2004.
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4. Membership in Professional Organizations
Union for a Radical Political Economics
5. Offices in Professional Organizations
Steering Committee, Union for Radical Political Economists (2000).
6. Membership in Editorial Boards
Member of Editorial Board, Review of Radical Political Economics, 2009-2014.
7. Manuscript Reviewing
Co-Editor, Research in Political Economy, Volume 32, Special Issue on East Asia, 2016-2017.
Member of Editorial Collective, the China Special Issue of Review of Radical Political
Economics, 2007-2008.
Enbao Wang, China’s Quest for National Rejuvenation: A Chinese Perspective, Book Proposal,
Pluto Press, December 2008.
Mobo Gao, Seeing the Past from the Present: the Cultural Revolution, Mao and the Era of Mao
and Post-Mao Reforms, Book Proposal, Pluto Press, May 2007.
Dale Wen, A People’s History of China: A Politically Incorrect Guide to China, Book Proposal,
Pluto Press, March 2007.
Additional manuscript reviews for the following journals: Geoforum, Historical Materialism,
Journal of Contemporary Asia, Review of Radical Political Economics, Science & Society.
8. Media Coverage
Interview by Al Aromo, No.90, Argentina, Interview (Spanish): http://razonyrevolucion.org/esimperativo-que-la-humanidad-termine-con-el-capitalismo-antes-de-que-el-capitalismo-terminecon-nosotros-entrevista-a-minqi-li/, May 5, 2016.
Interview by CCTV-America, on China’s Nuclear Energy, June 16, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1W7KhC5TJ0
Interview by Marxist Thought, A Greek quarterly journal, April 2015.
Interview by E-International Relations, March 2015.
http://www.e-ir.info/2015/04/07/interview-minqi-li/
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Interview by Real News Network, on US-China climate deal, November 12, 2014.
Interview by Vice News, on China’s Climate Pledge, November 12, 2014.
https://news.vice.com/article/heres-why-chinas-climate-pledge-might-not-be-such-a-great-leapforward.
Interview by Joel Kovel, Eco-Socialist Horizons (radio program), on China, Climate Change,
and Ecological Crisis, November 9, 2014.
Interview by Padraic O'Brien, Community Radio of Guelph, Ontario, on China and global
capitalism, February 24, 2014
Interview with Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com on Why the Chinese Economy Is Slowing Down,
January 31, 2013.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumi
val=11405
Interview with Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com on the Third Plenum of the Eighteenth Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, November 19, 2013.
Interview with Simone Pieranni, a journalist of Il Manifesto, Italian News Paper, November 15,
2013.
Interview with Carlos Ottery, a journalist of The World of Chinese Magazine based in Beijing,
November 10, 2013.
Interview with Brian Spegele, a journalist of Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2013,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324906304579038530657521114.html
Interview with Doug Henwood, radio interview on the Chinese economy, April 17, 2013.
Interview with Simone Pieranni, II Manifesto, Italian news paper, March 18, 2013.
Interview with Methieu Perreault, La Presse, Montreal, Canada, November 6, 2012.
Interview with Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com on the US presidential debate, October 23, 2012.
Interview with Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com on the struggle within the Chinese Communist
Part, October 11, 2012.
Interview with Johan Nylander, a journalist of Swedish National News Agency TT, October 16,
2012.
Interview with Brian Spegele, a journalist of Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2012.
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Interview with Tom Hancock, a journalist of Agence France Presse, October 1, 2012.
A clause of “Minqi Li” is created on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minqi_Li. I am one
of the 36 historical and current Chinese economists, 49 historical and current Marxist economists,
and 163 past and present University of Utah Faculty members listed on Wikipedia.
Interview with Vsevolod Romanenko, Russian Monthly Business Magazine “RBC” on Liu
Xiaobo’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, October 20, 2010.
Interview with Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com on the Chinese economy and workers’
movement, August 11, 2010.
Interview with Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com on climate change, December 7, 2009.
Interview with Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com, November 20, 2009.
Interview with Eleftherotypia (Greek National Newspaper), November 13, 2009.
Interview with Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com, September 26, 2009.
Interview with Global Times (English Edition of the Chinese Newspaper Huanqiu Shibao),
“Rethink privatizing China’s SOEs,” August 4, 2009.
Interview with Radiotelevisione Italiana on “The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist
World Economy,” June 5, 2009.
Interview with Jerko Bakutin, Novi List, Zagreb Croatia, May 15, 2009.
Interview with Alan Sekula, Film Producer, for a documentary on maritime space in the global
economy, Los Angeles, May 4, 2009.
Interview with Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com, August 11, 13, and 15, 2008, on China’s
politics, economics, and energy demand. Paul Jay is the Senior and Editor of the Real News
Network and former Executive Producer of the Canadian television debate show “Counter Spin.”
The Real News Network is the world’s first viewer supported daily video news network, based in
Washington, D.C. and Toronto. Website:
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumiv
al=188.
Interview with Rick Farquharson, Film Producer / Director, for the feature-length documentary:
The Human Economy (www.thehumaneconomy.com), Salt Lake City, Utah, June 3, 2007.
OMNI 2 Television, Toronto, ‘China and the Global Oil Shortage,’ August 24, 2005.
OMNI 2 Television, Toronto, ‘Textile Trade Disputes between China, US, and EU,’ June 3,
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2005.
9. Community Services
Interview by Bovey Ruo, Hillcrest High School, 10th Grade, Salt Lake City, on “China’s Open
Door Policy,” February 5, 2013.
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