Gerald Allen "Gerry" Cohen [1941–] is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford. Educated at McGill University, Canada (BA, politics) and the University of Oxford (BPhil, philosophy)....

...Known as a proponent of Analytical Marxism and a member of the September Group, Cohen's 1978 work Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence defends an old-fashioned interpretation of Marx's historical materialism. In Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality [1995], Cohen attempts to make a moral argument in favour of socialism, contrasting his views with those of John Rawls and Robert Nozick and making an extensive critque of the Lockean principle of self-ownership. In If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? [2000] Cohen addresses the question of what egalitarian political principles imply for the personal behavior of those who subscribe to them.