User:Jurriaan

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Hi,

I was born in Amsterdam, 1959 and graduated MA (Education, with honours) 1982 in New Zealand, where I lived for 22 years. I've studied for Phd, but did not finish it. My main paid jobs have included university tutor/teacher, library education officer, research statistician, academic translator and documentalist/archivist. I presently live and work in Amsterdam, The Netherlands where I rent a flat, and I am an ordinary member of the Socialist Party. I think more egalitarian societies are better for human life. My intellectual interest is typically in social sciences & humanities, and my hobbies are mainly reading and writing. On a suggestion by Prof. Jim Devine of Loyola Marymount University, I have contributed or worked on a range of wiki articles in the area of Marxian thought, sociology, economics, social accounting, econometrics, history, and philosophy. I continue to work on the articles more from time to time. Many did not start so well but I improved them over time. I do not set out to be creative and original, but sometimes people say I am. I think real innovation in a genre usually requires a very good background knowledge of the genre, otherwise you just end up doing what somebody already did before.

Contact me at: adsl675281 —áţ— tiscali.nl

I have written or contributed mainly to the following articles (some have changed):