John Cavanagh
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.
Areas of expertise:
Corporate Power & Globalisation; International Financial Institutions; NAFTA; WTO & Trade Liberalisation; US PoliticsMedia experience:
John Cavanagh contributes articles to The Nation and Foreign Policy in Focus
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Recent content by John Cavanagh
Way worse than a dumb war: Iraq ten years later
March 2013
The US war in Iraq may be over, but we owe an apology grounded in the recognition of our enormous debt to the people of Iraq, a debt for which compensation and reparations are only a start.
Gold for Export? … or Water & Food for Life?
January 2013
With the rapid expansion of gold mining, social movements in many countries have gathered force to oppose the mining. Environmental concerns have been central to this opposition. But the opposition has grown into a larger critique of “what is development?” posing corporate-led export growth against peasant-led local agriculture.
Turning Points: Is a Different Future Possible?
April 2011
With the citizen-backed blockage of a proposed aluminum smelter, is Trinidad and Tobago changing course toward a rooted future?
The Coming Global Food Fight
March 2011
As anger mounts in response to rising global food prices, small-scale farms rooted in local markets are showing how to avert international disaster and lead the way to "food democracy."
Farmer by Farmer, an Organic Transition
February 2011
After decades of chemicals, farmers in the Philippines are seeing the benefits of organic farming. But what convinced them to make the switch in the first place?
Philippines: Food for a Rooted Future
January 2011
The successful initiatives of farmers to take back control of their lives and gain food security are empowering communities in the Philippines and around the world.
Why I'm breaking the law for health care
March 2010
We're standing up to insurance companies and demanding the reform our country so desperately needs.
Change can be tougher than hope
January 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
December 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
July 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.
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