Jack L. Amariglio (born April 6, 1951) is a North American heterodox economist.
Amariglio was born and raised in the East New York section of Brooklyn, where he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School (Brooklyn).
His dissertation was titled "Economic History and the Theory of Primitive Socio-Economic Development".
[2] In 1988, Amariglio joined efforts with a group of colleagues to launch Rethinking Marxism, an academic journal that aims to create a platform for rethinking and developing Marxian concepts and theories within economics as well as other fields of social inquiry.
[4] EGSO, to this day, serves as a forum and representative body of graduate students and distributes the teaching assignments to graduate students in an egalitarian manner.