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Erik Dean is a research scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an instructor of economics at Portland Community College. He has presented papers on heterodox microeconomic theory, institutional economics, and methodology at meetings for the Association for Institutional Thought and the Union for Radical Political Economics, and contributed a chapter to the recent volume Advancing the Frontiers of Heterodox Economics: Essays in Honor of Frederic S. Lee. Dean received his Ph. D. from the University of Missouri – Kansas City under the supervision of James Sturgeon and Frederic Lee.