Raymond Benton, Jr.

Ray retired in 2015, yet he continues to toil in the academic vineyard. “A Pedagogical Approach and Research Agenda for Critical and Political Macromarketing” was presented at the 2022 Macromarketing Conference; “A Framework for Understanding the Role of Marketing in the Economy and Society,” and “The U.S Government’s Program for Welfare for the Wealthy” with Stan Stasch (also a Quinlan retiree) will be presented at the 2023 Macromarketing Conference. Recent publications include “Despair, Rigging, Anger, and Degrowth,” Journal of Macromarketing 42(3), 2022: pp. 345-355 DOI: 10.1177/02761467221086299, “Marketing: A Forgotten (or Ignored) School of Institutional Economics,” a review of Foundations of Marketing Thought: The Influence of the German Historical School, by D. G. Brian Jones and Mark Tadajewski in the Journal of Economic Issues 55(4), 2021; “Commentary on and Further Extension of Stanley J. Shapiro’s Review of Milton Friedman: Fifty Years Later,” Journal of Macromarketing 41(3), 2021; “Our Obsolete Marketing Mentality: George Fisk, Meet Karl Polanyi,” Journal of Macromarketing 41(1), 2021; and a review of the Jones and Tadajewski book, mentioned above, for the Journal of Macromarketing 41(3), 2021. His full list of publications will soon be available at https://www.luc.edu/quinlan/faculty/bentonraymond.shtml