{{Short description|American soil scientist}} '''Fred Magdoff''' is an American soil scientist. He is Emeritus Professor of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont and an adjunct professor of crop and soil science at Cornell University.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://mronline.org/2011/11/25/magdoff251111-html/ | title=The People's Democratic Struggle and the Struggle for the Environment: An Interview with Fred Magdoff &#124; MR Online | work=MR Online | date=25 November 2011 | last1=Chowdhury | first1=Farooque }}</ref>

He received a BA in history from Oberlin College in 1963 and both an MA in 1965 and Phd in 1969 from Cornell University in soil science.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.uvm.edu/news/cals/putting-crops-test-thwarts-pollution | title=Putting Crops to the Test Thwarts Pollution }}</ref>

He is the son of socialist commentator Harry Magdoff.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/obituaries/harry-magdoff-economist-dies-at-92.html | title=Harry Magdoff, Economist, Dies at 92 (Published 2006) | website=The New York Times | date=9 January 2006 }}</ref>

He is a regular contributor to ''Monthly Review''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://climateandcapitalism.com/2011/08/24/interview-fred-magdoff-on-what-every-environmentalist-needs-to-know-about-capitalism/ | title=Interview: Fred Magdoff on What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism | date=24 August 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://countercurrents.org/2021/07/fred-magdoff-discusses-capitalist-agriculture/ | title=Fred Magdoff Discusses Capitalist Agriculture&#124; Countercurrents | date=3 July 2021 }}</ref>

==Books== *with John Bellamy Foster ''The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences'' (Monthly Review Press, 2009)<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09538250903392143 | doi=10.1080/09538250903392143 | title=The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences | date=2010 | last1=Vidal | first1=Matt | journal=Review of Political Economy | volume=22 | pages=177–180 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> *with Michael Yates ''The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know'' (Monthly Review Press, 2009)<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309816811432878e?journalCode=cnca | doi=10.1177/0309816811432878e | title=Book review: The abcs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know, by Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates | date=2012 | last1=Gallagher | first1=Adam E. | journal=Capital & Class | volume=36 | pages=180–182 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> *with Brian Tokar ''Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal'' (Monthly Review Press, 2010)<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1549-0831.2012.00087_3.x | doi=10.1111/j.1549-0831.2012.00087_3.x | title=Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal – Edited by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar | date=2012 | last1=Kremer | first1=Kathy S. | journal=Rural Sociology | volume=77 | issue=3 | pages=488–490 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> *with John Bellamy Foster ''What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism: A Citizen’s Guide to Capitalism and the Environment'' (Monthly Review Press, 2011)<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26420536 | jstor=26420536 | last1=Neale | first1=Kate | last2=Magdoff | first2=Fred | last3=Foster | first3=John Bellamy | title=Reviewed work: What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism: A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment, MagdoffFred, FosterJohn Bellamy | journal=Australian Journal of Environmental Education | date=2012 | volume=28 | issue=1 | pages=59–61 | doi=10.1017/aee.2012.7 | url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1086026612461258 | doi=10.1177/1086026612461258 | title=Book Review: ''What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism: A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment'', by Magdoff, F. And Foster, J. B. | date=2013 | last1=Szerszynski | first1=Bronislaw | journal=Organization & Environment | volume=26 | issue=3 | pages=355–357 | bibcode=2013OrgEn..26..355S | url-access=subscription }}</ref> *with Chris Williams ''Creating an Ecological Society'' (Monthly Review Press, 2017)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17175_creating-an-ecological-society-toward-a-revolutionary-transformation-by-fred-magdoff-and-chris-williams-reviewed-by-justin-bzovy/ | title= }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2277976017745196?journalCode=agsa | doi=10.1177/2277976017745196 | title=Book Review: Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams (2017), Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation | date=2017 | last1=Krithi | first1=S. | journal=Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy | volume=6 | issue=3 | pages=406–409 | bibcode=2017AgrS....6..406K | url-access=subscription }}</ref> *with Harold Van Es ''Building Soils for Better Crops: Ecological Management for Healthy Soils''

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==External links== *[https://monthlyreview.org/author/fredmagdoff/ Fred Magdoff] at ''Monthly Review''

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