# Geert Reuten > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Geert_Reuten > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Geert_Reuten.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Reuten > Source revision: 1303920120 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Dutch economist and politician (1946–2025) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Geert Reuten" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Geert Reuten **Thaddeus Antonius Gerardus Maria** "**Geert**" **Reuten** (16 April 1946 – 29 July 2025) was a Dutch economist and politician. On behalf of the [Socialist Party](/source/Socialist_Party_(Netherlands)) (SP) he was a senator in the First Chamber (upper house) of the Dutch parliament from June 2007 till June 2015 and again from 26 June 2018 to 11 June 2019. Reuten also taught economics at the [University of Amsterdam](/source/University_of_Amsterdam), and was internationally recognized as an expert on [Marx](/source/Marx) and [Hegel](/source/Hegel). ## Life and career Reuten was born in [Heerlen](/source/Heerlen) on 16 April 1946. He studied economics and sociological economics at [Erasmus University Rotterdam](/source/Erasmus_University_Rotterdam) and at [Birkbeck College](/source/Birkbeck_College) of the [University of London](/source/University_of_London). Reuten graduated in 1988 at the [University of Amsterdam](/source/University_of_Amsterdam) (UvA). From 1977, he was lecturer and later professor at the UvA. From 2002 to 2014, he was director of the Master of Economics at the same university. His prominent work *The Capitalist System* is now also used as a textbook in University of Amsterdam for advanced BSc and MSc courses. He joined the Socialist Party and served as the party's economic adviser in the House from that year. In the first election in 2007 he was elected to the Senate. He was sworn in on 12 June 2007. His term ended on 9 June 2015. Reuten was also active in the alter-association Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens, [ATTAC](/source/ATTAC). Reuten died on 29 July 2025 in [Westhoek](/source/Westhoek%2C_Friesland), at the age of 79.[1][2] ## Works - *The Value-Form Determination of Economic Policy: A Dialectical Theory of Economy, Society and State in the Capitalist Epoch* (with Michael J. Williams), Amsterdam: [B.R. Grüner](/source/John_Benjamins_Publishing_Company), 1988 - *Value-Form and the State: The Tendencies of Accumulation and the Determination of Economic Policy in Capitalist Society* (with Michael J. Williams), London: [Routledge](/source/Routledge), 1989, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0415038936](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0415038936) - *[The Unity of the Capitalist Economy and State: A Systematic-Dialectical Exposition of the Capitalist System](https://brill.com/downloadpdf/display/title/38778.pdf)*, Leiden: [Brill](/source/Brill_Publishers), 2019, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-90-04-39280-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-39280-9) - *[Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society: An Alternative Beyond Capitalism and Socialism, and the Transition Towards It](https://brill.com/downloadpdf/display/title/63765.pdf)*, Leiden: Brill, 2023, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-90-04-53108-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-53108-6) - *[Essays on Marx's Capital: Summaries, Appreciations and Reconstructions](https://brill.com/downloadpdf/display/title/69146.pdf)*, Leiden: Brill, 2024, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-90-04-69792-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-69792-8) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Geert Reuten](https://images.nrc.nl/DQpikhfR__YO4SeQi9M5Nrxlf8w=/filters:no_upscale():format(jpeg):fill(f8f8f8,true)/s3/nrchub/clippings/NH/20250802/420-advertisement-289163_1341682_reuten08-e47983.png) (in Dutch) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [In memoriam: Geert Reuten (1946 - 2025)](https://www.sp.nl/nieuws/in-memoriam-geert-reuten-1946-2025) (in Dutch) ## Sources - [*Amsterdam School of Economics - Dr Geert Reuten*](https://web.archive.org/web/20110114061936/http://www1.fee.uva.nl/pp/greuten/) - (in Dutch) [Parlement.com biography](http://www.parlement.com/9291000/bio/03161) v t e Members of the Senate of the Netherlands (2011–2015) Senate 7 June 2011 – 8 June 2015 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 16) Hermans Beckers Bröcker Broekers-Knol (president) ‹Bruijn› Dupuis Duthler F. de Graaf (president) De Grave Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Kneppers-Heynert Knip ‹Van Rey› Schaap Schouwenaar Swagerman Labour Party (PvdA: 14) Barth Beuving ‹Duivesteijn› Ter Horst ‹Koning› Koole Linthorst ‹Meurs› ‹Noten› Postema ‹Putters› Schrijver Sent Sylvester Vlietstra De Vries ‹Witteveen› ‹Van Zandbrink› Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 11) Brinkman Van Bijsterveld Essers Flierman Franken Hoekstra Van der Linden Lokin-Sassen Martens Terpstra De Vries-Leggedoor Party for Freedom (PVV: 10) ‹M. de Graaf› ‹De Graaff› Faber ‹Van Beek› Van Dijk Frijters-Klijnen ‹Klever› ‹Kok› ‹Kops› Popken Reynaers Sørensen Van Strien Socialist Party (SP: 8) Kox Elzinga ‹Gerkens› ‹Meijer› Quik-Schuijt Reuten Ruers Slagter-Roukema ‹Smaling› ‹Vliegenthart› Democrats 66 (D66: 5) Van Boxtel Backer Engels Th. de Graaf Scholten GroenLinks (GL: 5) Thissen De Boer Ganzevoort Strik Vos Christian Union (CU: 2) Kuiper Ester Reformed Political Party (SGP: 1) Holdijk 50PLUS (50+: 1) Nagel Party for the Animals (PvdD: 1) Koffeman Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1) De Lange Bold indicates the parliamentary leader (first mentioned); ‹Guillemets› indicate a member who did not serve the full term Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Italy Netherlands Israel Belgium People DDB Other IdRef Yale LUX This article about a Dutch politician is a stub. 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