David Coates (political economist)

David Coates
Born	(1946-12-24)24 December 1946 Tottington, Lancashire, England
Died	7 July 2018(2018-07-07) (aged 71)
Spouses	Dorothy Parry (div.)[2] Joan Butterfield (div.)[2] Eileen McKenna ​ (m. 1991)​ [2]
Academic background
Alma mater	University of York Nuffield College, Oxford
Influences	Ralph Miliband[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Sub-discipline	Political economy
Institutions	University of York University of Leeds University of Manchester Wake Forest University
Website	davidcoates.net

David Coates (24 December 1946 – 7 August 2018) was a British-American political economist.

Coates earned an undergraduate degree at the University of York in 1967 and completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford in 1979. He began teaching prior to earning an advanced degree, serving as lecturer at the University of York from 1970 to 1971, and moving to the University of Leeds in 1977. Coates left Leeds in 1995 for the University of Manchester, and became the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University in 1999.^[3] He died on 7 August 2018, aged 71.^[4]