CONTRIBUTORS
Patrick Bond, a political economist, is research professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of
Development Studies where he directs the Centre for Civil Society (http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs). His training was in
economic geography at Johns Hopkins University, finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and economics at
Swarthmore College. Patrick’s recent authored and edited books include Climate Change, Carbon Trading and
Civil Society (UKZN Press and Rozenberg Publishers, 2008); The Accumulation of Capital in Southern Africa
(Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2007); Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation (Zed Books and UKZN Press,
2006), Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms (UKZN Press, 2006); Elite Transition: From
Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (UKZN Press, 2005); Fanon’s Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the
New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Africa World Press, 2005); and Against Global Apartheid: South Africa
meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance (Zed Books and University of Cape Town Press, 2003).
Patrick was the drafter of 15 policy papers for the South African government from 1994-2001, and before that
worked in the NGO sector in Johannesburg for several years. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1961;
grew up in Alabama and Maryland; and moved permanently to Southern Africa in 1989 following work in the media
(Marketplace Radio and Pacifica Radio) and at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC.
Al Campbell is a professor of economics at the University of Utah in the United States. His research interests are
focused on theoretical and empirical issues concerning the political economy of contemporary capitalism and its
transcendence. His work has appeared in numerous international peer reviewed journals including Review of
Radical Political Economics, Science and Society and Critique.
Paul Cooney Seisdedos received his doctorate in Economics from the New School for Social Research in 1990.
He has worked at the United Nations and at several universities, including the University of Buenos Aires in the
early 1990s, Queens College in New York and currently at the Universidade Federal do Pará in the Brazilian
Amazon since 2006. He has conducted research and published in the areas of economics and environmental
science. His research includes the following topics: NAFTA and the issues of labor and the environment in
maquiladoras, analysis of the neoliberal experiences in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, the general law of capitalist
accumulation in Latin America, international transfers of value and unequal exchange, competition and monopoly,
and air transport of pesticides and dioxin. His current areas of research include globalization and accumulation in
the Brazilian Amazon, deforestation and ecology, the free trade zone of Manaus, as well the current crisis and the
role of fictitious capital. He has publications in several scholarly refereed journals, such as: Latin American
Perspectives, Revista de Economia Contemporânea and the Revista de Economia, UFPR. He is also a member of
the editorial board of the international journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism and has served on the steering
committee and as treasurer for the Union for Radical Political Economics.
Cliff DuRand is a founder and Research Associate at the Center for Global Justice located in San Miguel de
Allende, GTO Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Philosophy from Florida State University and taught Philosophy at
Morgan State University in Baltimore for 40 years.
Seongjin Jeong is a professor of economics and the Director of Graduate Program of Political Economy at
Gyeongsang National University, South Korea. He is also the Editor of MARXISM 21, a representative Marxist
journal in South Korea. He received his PhD from Seoul National University, and has written widely on Marxism and
the Korean economy, including articles in Review of Radical Political Economics and Rethinking Marxism. Some of
his works, especially Marx and the Korean Economy (2005), Marx and Trotsky (2006), and Marxist Perspectives on
South Korea in the Global Economy (Ashgate 2007), a volume he co-edited and contributed to, are received as
major contributions to the development of classical Marxism in Korea. He has also translated some Marxist works
into Korean, including books by Robert Brenner, Alex Callinicos, Tony Cliff and Roman Rosdolsky.
Angela Joya is a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science at York University. She is currently
completing her dissertation titled “Building Capitalism in Egypt: A Study of the Construction and Housing Sectors,
1991-2004”. She has recently published an article titled “Syria’s Transition, 1970-2005: From Centralization of the
State to Market Economy” in the journal Research in Political Economy. She has also written and published on US
imperialism in the Middle East. Her future research project will examine the internationalization of the State in
Afghanistan.
Minqi Li received his PhD in economics from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2002. He taught political
science at York University, Canada, from 2003 to 2006. Since 2006, he has been teaching economics in University
of Utah. His recent book: The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy was published by
Pluto Press and Monthly Review Press in 2009.
Ananya Mukherjee Reed is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto,
Canada. She is also director of the International Secretariat for Human Development (ISHD) at York. Her most
recent book is, Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia (London: Routledge, 2008).
The book attempts to develop a critical conceptualization of human development by focusing on the three
dimensions of political-economy, difference and agency. Her earlier publications include an edited volume
Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia: Conventional Wisdoms and South Asian Realities
(Basingstoke: Palgrave 2003); Perspectives on India’s Corporate Economy: Exploring the Paradox of Profits
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2001); and numerous articles in international refereed journals.
Ake Tangsupvattana is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
He is also Associate Dean for Academic and International Affairs and was a University Council Member. He
obtained his BA in Political Science from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and MA in Political Theory and Ph.D.
in Sociology from the University of Essex, England. His major research interests are in globalization, governance,
the relations between politics and business, the role of transnational corporations, especially in the context of
corporate social responsibility. His recent international publications are as follows: “Driving the Juggernaut: From
Economic Crisis to Global Governance in Pacific Asia” in Pacific Asia 2022: Sketching Futures of a Region, Japan
Center for International Exchange (2005); ‘Thailand Election 2005: Towards Authoritarian Populism or Participatory
Democratic Governance’ in Elections in Asia: Making Democracy Work?, Marshall Cavendish International
(Singapore) Private Limited (2006); Co-principle researcher “National Integrity Systems: Transparency International
Country Study Report – Thailand 2006”, Transparency International.
John Weeks is Professor Emeritus of Development Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London. He is author of numerous books on development, political economy and economic theory. His
research in Southeast Asia has been on Indonesia and Vietnam. In addition to his academic work he is the
principle author of macroeconomic studies for the United Nations on Vietnam, Zambia and Moldova.
Richard Westra has taught at universities around the world including Queen’s University and Royal Military
College, Canada; International Study Center, East Sussex UK; and the College of The Bahamas, Nassau. He has
been a Visiting Research Fellow at Focus on the Global South/Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand and is currently Associate Professor in the Division of International
and Area Studies, Pukyong National University, Pusan, South Korea. His work has been published in numerous
international scholarly refereed journals including Journal of Contemporary Asia, Review of International Political
Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics and Historical Materialism. He is author of Political Economy and
Globalization, Routledge 2009 and co-edited and contributed to Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The
21st Century, Present and Future, Anthem 2007 and Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy,
Ashgate 2007.
Gregory Wilpert is adjunct professor in political science at Brooklyn College’s Graduate Center for Worker
Education and is founder and editor of the website Venezuelanalysis.com. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from
Brandies University in 1994 and in 2000 received a Fulbright grant to teach and do research at the Central
University of Venezuela. He ended up living in Venezuela for eight years, where he wrote articles on Venezuelan
politics for publications such as the New Left Review, Le Monde Diplomatique, Z Magazine, NACLA Report on the
Americas, among many others. He is the author of Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and
Policies of the Chávez Government, Verso 2007.
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