Global Crisis Seminar

Global Crisis Seminar
TNI, 17-18 February 2002

• Introduction
• Programme
• Participants
• Papers

PARTICIPANTS

Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management, where he teaches political economy and co-ordinates the Phd programme. He is also a research associate with the Alternative Information and Development Centre, and co-ordinator of the World Bank Bonds Boycott in South Africa for the Centre for Economic Justice (USA). He has written extensively on neo-liberalism in South Africa and the crisis in post-liberation Zimbabwe. His latest books include Against Global Apartheid (University of Cape Town Press, 2001) and The Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (Pluto, 2000).
Email: pbond@wn.apc.org
http://aidc.org.za

Kevin Danaher
Co-founder of human rights organisation, Global Exchange, his most recent books are Ten Reasons for Abolishing the World Bank and the IMF, Democratizing the Global Economy: The Battle Against the World Bank and the IMF; Globalize This!: The Battle Against the World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule; Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama: Globalization and the Downsizing of the American Dream; and 50 Years Is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Global Exchange
San Francisco, CA
Email: kevin@globalexchange.org
www.globalexchange.org

Alan Freeman
Co-ordinator of the International Working Group on Value Theory, lecturer in critical political economy at Greenwich University, and Economic Advisor to the Greater London Authority. His current research interests include Mathematical and Computerised Dynamic Simulation Models of Market Economies with particular reference to value theory and Measurement of the Social Wage. With regards to the latter, he is responsible for a project that involves international collaboration between Europe, North America, Turkey and Mexico on the measurement of the social wage and the effect of tax and benefit structures on real earnings in Western Europe and North America. His latest co-edited book is Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics, Edward Elgar (1996).

Social Sciences and Law
University of Greenwich
Old Royal Naval College
Park Row, Greenwich
London SE10 9LS
Email: A.Freeman@Greenwich.ac.uk

Dmitri Glinski-Vassiliev
Senior Associate at the Institute of World Economy & International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Co-author, with Peter Reddaway, of The Tragedy of Russian Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy (USIP Press, Washington DC), author and co-author of numerous publications on Russia's politics, political economy, and foreign policy in Russian and US academic periodicals and newspapers. Participated in the anti-shock therapy wing of Russia's democratic movement; served as member of Russia's Constitutional Assembly and the Chamber of NGOs under the presidential administration. Member of the Editorial Board of the Russian periodical Oppozitsiya.

Moscow
Russia
Email: dmitri_glinski@mtu-net.ru
http://dmitriglinski.narod.ru

Doug Henwood
Founder and editor of Left Business Observer, which covers such issues as income distribution and poverty in the US and elsewhere in the First World; the evolving Western hemisphere free trade zone and the Mexican crisis; the globalization of finance and production; the worldwide attack on pensions; Third World debt and development; the transformation of the former "socialist" world; the IMF and World Bank; the media business; the influence of foundations on politics and culture. Every issue includes a report on the world's financial markets and central banks. Henwood is also a contributing editor of The Nation, host of a radio weekly program on WBAI (New York), and a regular contributor to the webzine Feed. His latest books include A New Economy? (Verso, 2001) and Wall Street (Verso, 1997).

Left Business Observer
New York, USA
Email: dhenwood@panix.com
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com

Boris Kagarlitsky
TNI Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Comparative Political Studies in Moscow, Kagarlitsky was a student of art criticism and was imprisoned for two years for 'anti-Soviet' activities related to his editorship of a samizdat journal, Leviy Povorot. Kagarlitsky was co-ordinator of the Moscow People's Front between '88 and '90, and also advised the Workers' Committee of Prokpievsk and Karaganda during this period. He was a deputy to the Moscow City Soviet between 1990-93, during which time he was a member of the executive of the Socialist Party of Russia, co-founder of the Party of Labour, and advisor to the Chairperson of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia. His latest books include Russia under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy (Pluto, January 2002), The Return of Radicalism. Reshaping the Left Institutions (Pluto, London/USA, 2000); The Twilight of Globalization. Property, State and Capitalism (Pluto, London/USA, 1999); and New Realism. New Barbarism. Socialist Theory in the Era of Globalization (Pluto, London/USA, 1999).

Moscow
Russia
Email: goboka@online.ru

Dot Keet
TNI Fellow and Senior Research Associate Fellow with the Alternative Information and Development Centre in Cape Town, Keet is an activist-scholar working on the WTO, EU trade and investment agendas in Africa, alternative regionalisms. She is active in Jubilee South, the Southern African Peoples Solidarity Network, and the Africa Trade Network and does economic literacy work among grassroots activists in Cape Town. Born in Zimbabwe, she spent years working in several southern Africa countries and was involved in the liberation movements of Angola and Mozambique, which led to a move to Europe in the 1980s, where she worked for the Mozambique Information Service. She returned in 1990 and worked for the South African Labour Bulletin and the ANC/COSATU Macro-Economic Research Group (MERG) until moving to the University of Western Cape where she taught until recently.

Cape Town
South Africa
Email: dkeet@iafrica.com or dotkeet@hotmail.com

Marylou Malig
Sociologist and research associate of Focus on the Global South, Marylou moderates Focus' e-zine Focus on the Philippines. She is currently working with Walden Bello on a book about the political economy of the Philippines, dealing with issues like the environment and cronyism.

Focus on the Global South
Quezon City
Philippines
Email: maryloumalig@pacific.net.ph
www.focusweb.org

Bill Robinson
A sociologist with extensive Central American experience, he is currently concerned with globalisation and the rise of the transnational state and the transnational caplitalist class. His most recent book is Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of California-Santa Barbara
USA
Email: wirobins@soc.ucsb.edu

Sungur Savran
An economist working in Istanbul, Sungur received his BA from Brandeis University, Massachusetts, in Politics and his PhD in Economics at the University of Istanbul, where he also taught for ten years until resigning in 1983 in protest against military repression of Turkish universities. He has taught as visiting professor at various universities in the United States, among which the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City. He has done research at Sussex University, England and Nanterre University, Paris. He has articles published in Turkish, English (Capital and Class, Monthly Review, Socialism and Democracy, Khamsin), French and German. His latest book is titled Eurasia Wars: The Establishment of the New World Order from the Gulf to Afghanistan (2001), in Turkish. He has two forthcoming volumes edited in collaboration with Nesecan Balkan in English: The Politics of Permanent Crisis. Class, Ideology and State in Turkey (Nova Publishers, forthcoming February) and The Ravages of Neo-Liberalism. Economy, Society and Gender in Turkey (Nova Publishers, forthcoming).
Email: sungursavran@hotmail.com

Miguel Teubal
Agrarian economist, Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, lead researcher at CONICET (Science and Technology Research Centre), former TNI fellow. Teubal has written extensively on debt, structural adjustment, MERCOSUR and the impact of regional integration on the Argentinian economy, globalisation. He published a number of articles relevant to the current crisis in Argentina in Le Monde Diplomatique, Science and Society, Realidad Economica and a number of other journals.

Buenos Aires
Argentina
Email: teubal@mail.retina.ar or mteubal@cea.uba.ar
http://www.econ.uba.ar

Myriam Vander Stichele
TNI fellow and Research Director at the Amsterdam-based SOMO (Centre for Research on Multilateral Corporations). An historian by training, with an M.Phil in International Relations from Cambridge, Vander Stichele has been monitoring international trade for more than a decade - under the Lome Convention, during the Uruguay GATT round and at the WTO. Her current area of research is the WTO with specific reference to the services sector and corporate dimensions of globalisation.

email: m.vander.stichele@somo.nl or stichele@xs4all.nl

Roger van Zwanenburg
Managing Director of Pluto Press.
345 A Archway Road
London N6 5AA England
telw: (44 20) 8348 27 24
faxw: (44 20) 8348 91 33
email: pluto@plutobks.demon.co.uk
http://www.leevalley.co.uk/plutopress

Basker Vashee
TNI Fellow and former Director (1977-87), Vashee is a former representative of the Zimbabwean liberation movements in London where he was exiled in the early 70s. With a doctorate in economics from the LSE, Vashee is focused on African economic matters and is currently writing a book on Zimbabwe under Mugabe. His most recent publication is New Wars, co-edited with Mary Kaldor (Pinter/UN University, 1997).

email: africa@tni.org

Howard Wachtel
An economist, he is currently working on tax systems and globalisation. His latest book is Street of Dreams. Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century (London: Pluto Press, forthcoming 2002).

Department of Economics
American University
Washington DC, USA
Email: wachtel@american.edu

Robert Went
Works in the Faculty of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam. His current research interests include the Political Economy of Globalization; Globalization in the perspective of the history of economic thought; and Critical perspectives on the European Economic and Monetary Union. His latest book is Globalization, Neo-Liberal Challenge, Radical Responses, (Pluto, 2000)

Faculty of Economics and Econometrics
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Email: went@fee.uva.nl

UNABLE TO ATTEND BUT INTERESTED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT AND/OR SUBMITTED A PAPER:

Walden Bello
TNI Fellow and Board member, Bello is Director of Focus on the Global South in Bangkok, a project of Chulalongkorn University's Social Research Institute and Professor of Public Administration and Sociology at the University of the Philippines. He serves on the Programme Board of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, which provides NGOs information on the WTO. Bello has regular columns in Philippine and Thai newspapers, Focus on Trade, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. His most recent books are Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty (updated 2nd edition; TNI/Food First/Pluto 1999) and A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Disintegration in Modern Thailand (Food First/Zed 1998).

Focus on the Global South
Bangkok, Thailand
Email: waldenbello@hotmail.com or w.bello@focusweb.org

Susan George
TNI Associate Director, Vice-President of ATTAC France, President of the Observatoire de la Mondialisation, she is a member of the Group of Lisbon and a Patron of Jubilee 2000. She is the author of ten books, most recently The Lugano Report : On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century (Pluto 1999).

Email: susangeorge@wanadoo.fr

Jayati Ghosh
Economics professor and co-author with C. P. Chandrasekhar of Crisis as Conquest : Learning from East Asia (Orient Longman, New Delhi , 2000. She is currently working on two new books: Ten Years of Economic Reform in India (Leftword Books, New Delhi), with C. P. Chandrasekhar, and Globalisation, structural change and income distribution: An analysis of the world economy at the turn of the century, co-edited volume (Tulika Publishers, New Delhi). Jayati serves on the advisory board of Focus on the Global South (India).

Centre for Economic Studies & Planning
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi
Email: jayatig@vsnl.com or jayati@ndf.vsnl.net.in