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John Cavanagh

Director of the Institute for Policy Studies

John Cavanagh has been Director of IPS since 1998 and a founding fellow of TNI.  He worked as an international economist for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1978-1981) and the World Health Organization (1981-1982). 

He is also the co-author of 10 books and numerous articles on the global economy, including Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match (2008, Paradigm Publishers), written with Robin Broad.John has a BA from Dartmouth College and a MA from Princeton University.

Corporate Power & Globalisation; International Financial Institutions; NAFTA; WTO & Trade Liberalisation; US Politics

English

John Cavanagh
contributes articles to The Nation and Foreign Policy in
Focus

Selected publications: 
Beyond Bretton Woods
Development redefined: How the market met its match

Recent content by John Cavanagh

Why I'm breaking the law for health care (17 Mar 2010)

We're standing up to insurance companies and demanding the reform our country so desperately needs.

Change can be tougher than hope (19 Jan 2010)

The Obama administration can learn from its first year's setbacks to guide the country in the right direction in 2010.

Our jobs crisis needs drastic action (9 Dec 2009)

Obama's recovery plan has helped to slow the job loss, but we need a full-scale emergency relief plan that goes much further.

No Consensus on the Washington Consensus (10 Jul 2009)

Today, just as faith in deregulated markets has evaporated in the nightmare on Wall Street, so too is the long reign of market fundamentalism ending in the development arena.

London Econ Summit: Born of Good Intentions, But Ends in Disastrous Results (3 Apr 2009)
The governments of the largest economies in the world walked out of the summit with a plan that takes the global economy three big steps backwards.
We're in the midst of an epic battle over the direction of this nation (5 Mar 2009)
Obama has opened the door to change. Whether we can blow on through depends on us and our ability to organize.
A bold proposal for a new economy (16 Feb 2009)

The free market guru Milton Friedman understood what so many progressives do not: that crises create opportunities for radical change.  From low-wage workers, to local entrepreneurs, from independent
thinking elected officials to the global networks that brought you the
Battle in Seattle a decade ago, there's a new questioning of the Wall
Street-based economy.

Swear off market fundamentalism (14 Nov 2008)
As long as U.S. officials continue to refuse to face the reality of a post-market fundamentalist world, they will further contribute to the crisis.
World Bank should not be solving food crisis (14 Oct 2008)

The World Bank should not be in charge of solving the global food crisis. Its record should disqualify it from playing a leading role.

How Badly Can the 'Experts' Ruin the Planet? (10 Oct 2008)
Look no further than the World Bank to see how many economic, social and environmental problems so-called experts can make worse.
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