Professor Foster received his PhD from York University.  His research is devoted to critical inquiries into theory and history, focusing primarily on the economic, political and ecological contradictions of capitalism and imperialism, but also encompassing the wider realm of social theory as a whole. Professor Foster's teaching encourages in-depth, critical exploration of history and ideology, equipping students to learn to learn on their own.

• ecological crisis
• economic crisis
• imperialism
• social theory

• environmental sociology
• social theory
• marxism
• political economy

What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (with Fred Magdoff), 2011

The Ecological Rift, 2009

The Great Financial Crisis, 2009

Critique of Intelligent Design (with Brett Clark and Richard York), 2008

Ecology Against Capitalism, 2002

Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature, 2000

Hungry for Profit, 2000

The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment, 1999

Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution, 1998

In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda, 1997

The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy, 1986

The Faltering Economy: The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism, 1984