Richard David Wolff is a renowned Marxian economist known for his contributions to economic methodology and class analysis. He is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs at The New School. Wolff approaches economic analysis from a Marxist perspective, highlighting the limitations and inequalities of the capitalist system.  He pursued his education at Yale and Stanford University and was influenced by thinkers such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Paul Sweezy, and Paul A. Baran. His research and writings focus on class struggle, labor movements, and structural changes in the economy.  In his personal life, he is married to Harriet Fraad, and they have two children.