Richard Lachmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Richard Lachmann

American sociologist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1956

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: university teacher, sociologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Richard Lachmann (born May 17, 1956, New York City) an American sociologist and specialist in comparative historical sociology, is a professor at University at Albany, SUNY. Lachmann is best known as the author of the book, "Capitalists in Spite of Themselves", which has been awarded several prizes, including the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award.
In this work, Lachmann shows that relations among elites rather than class struggle, or any other set of factors proposed by other historians, primarily determined the creation or non-creation of capitalism in early modern Europe.
Later, he used his elite conflict theory to analyze the political crisis in the United States.