Down the Great Financial Drain:

Susan George

July 2007

Leaving a nation’s economy and people to the mercies of the ‘free market’- in other words to the dominant international financial players interested only in shortterm profits - is the equivalent of leaving the free fox to guard the free henhouse.

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This article is an edited version of Susan George’s contribution to the International Celso Furtado Centre Colloquium on Poverty and Development within the Context of Globalisation’, Rio de Janeiro, 25-27 July 2006.

Development - a journal of the Society for International Development (SID).

Susan George

TNI fellow, President of the Board of TNI and honorary president of ATTAC-France [Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens]

Susan George is one of TNI's most renowned fellows for her long-term and ground-breaking analysis of global issues. Author of fourteen widely translated books, she describes her work in a cogent way that has come to define TNI: "The job of the responsible social scientist is first to uncover these forces [of wealth, power and control], to write about them clearly, without jargon... and finally..to take an advocacy position in favour of the disadvantaged, the underdogs, the victims of injustice."