# Fred Magdoff

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{{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](/source/University_of_Vermont) and an adjunct professor of crop and soil science at [Cornell University](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times) | date=9 January 2006 }}</ref>

He is a regular contributor to ''[Monthly Review](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Michael_Yates_(economist)) ''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](/source/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''

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

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