James O'Connor (academic)
James Richard O'Connor was an American political economist and professor of sociology.
He was co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of , and Director of the Center for Political Ecology in Santa Cruz, California.
After earning a PhD in economics at Columbia University, and teaching economics at Washington University and San Jose State University, he was among the new faculty hired to initiate the Sociology PhD program at UC Santa Cruz in the mid-70s.
While at San Jose State, O'Connor co-founded and served as Coordinating Editor in the United States as part of the Bay Area Editorial Collective of the journal Kapitalistate.
He retired from teaching sociology, economics, and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1992 but remained active in the graduate program into the early 2000s.
