Michael Albert is an American activist, economist, speaker, and writer. During the 1960s, he was a member of Students for a Democratic Society, and was active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. He is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. Albert identifies himself as a market abolitionist and favors participatory planning as an alternative. He developed, with Robin Hahnel, the economic vision called participatory economics. Albert has also been a moving force in the creation of the International Organization for a Participatory Society founded in 2012. Albert's memoir, Remembering Tomorrow: From SDS to Life After Capitalism, was published in 2007 by Seven Stories Press. Parecomic: the story of Michael Albert and Participatory Economics Seven Stories Press is a graphic novel account of Albert's life and the Parecon ideas, by Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thompson,with an introduction by Noam Chomsky. [More at Wikipedia]

April 8th, 1947 in United States of America (Age 77)