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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."

European Union reform; European trade policy; Debt and International Financial Institutions; Alternatives to Corporate Globalisation; Currency Transaction Tax; Food Security; International Trade

Honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia of Madrid as well as the first “Outstanding Public Scholar Award" of the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Association. 

English, French

Susan George is a frequent interviewee in print, radio and  television and regularly contributes articles to Le Monde diplomatique, Open Democracy, El Pais, New Internationalist and The Nation.

Selected publications: 
How the Other Half Dies
Hijacking America
We the Peoples of Europe
Another world is possible if...
The Debt Boomerang
Faith and Credit

Recent content by Susan George

Global governance priorities in an interdependent world - balancing the economic and the environmental crisis (1 Mar 2010)

The current crisis has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism and hugely increased inequality, with money going from labour to capital.

 

Ten years later: challenges and proposals for another possible world (21 Jan 2010)

The WSF must work to strengthen and deepen the alliance of social movements with environmental campaigners, that was forged in Copenhagen, and broaden the alliance to include peace and conflict organisations as well.

 

Where has all the money gone? (23 Dec 2009)

People have been literally robbed over the last thirty years as money has moved up from labour to capital. And as people have less money to spend, we are constantly in a crisis of overproduction.

"30 Jahre nur die Reichen entlastet" (28 Oct 2009)

Der Krise is eine große Chance: Die Wirtschaft muss strikt reguliert und ökologisiert werden.

Privileg der Ausbeutung (15 Oct 2009)

Mit der Finanzkrise gelten viele unserer Ideen als vernünftig, etwa die Banken unter Kontrolle zu bringen oder Steueroasen zu schließen.

La crise, et après? Agir pour la reprise, inventer un nouveau modèle (Video) (3 Sep 2009)

Séance plénière de l'université d'été de Parti Socialiste. Animé por Laurent Fabius.

Contribution to the Vienna Conference of the Club of Rome, 16-17 April 2009 (20 Apr 2009)

"All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems in every age of the world to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind," said Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations. Either we learn to keep the market but eliminate the rapacity and environmental destructiveness of globalised capitalism or it will destroy us.

The problem isn't beef, bananas, cultural diversity, or the patenting of life: the problem is the WTO (20 Apr 2009)

Somebody sent me this "oldie but goodie" they wanted permission to quote. I'd forgotten all about this ten-year old piece but in fact things haven't changed that much.

Salon Terre! : « Élever la conscience écologique » (9 Mar 2009)

Susan George, figure de proue de l'altermondialisme, interviendra dans le débat sur la crisis au palais des congrès. Sa vision de l'état du monde est franchement décapante.

The global crisis, solutions, and implications for EU Trade Policy (25 Feb 2009)

Talk of the dangers of trade protectionism is used by European politicians to obscure the need for protection from transnational corporations whose control of European trade policy continues to cause negative social and environment impacts.

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