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John Cavanagh
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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

Turning Points: Is a Different Future Possible? (14 Apr 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 (7 Mar 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 (3 Feb 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 (20 Jan 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 (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.
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