John Hardesty is a practicing criminal defense attorney in California.
He was Professor of Economics at San Diego State University, teaching from 1967 to 1980.
He received his Ph.D. in economics from University of California, San Diego, in 1970 and his J.D. from University of California, Davis, in 1983.
He was one of the first economists to question endless economic growth in his book Economic Growth vs. The Environment (with Warren Johnson), Wadsworth, 1971, and in Political Economy and Environmental Destruction (with Norris, C. Clement and Clinton E. Jencks), Review of Radical Political Economics, Fall-Winter 1971. He also wrote various articles such as Transcending the Energy Crisis, Social Policy, July/August 1974, and Economic Implications of Environmental Crisis, Society, November/December, 1974.
In the 1980s, he was a community organizer and practiced street law in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.
He has contributed to Michael Moore’s writing and film projects as a researcher/producer since 2001.
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