Nominee's Background:
Professional Background:
* Economist, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1978-81) * Economist, World Health Organization (1981-82) * Director, Global Economy Project, Institute for Policy Studies (1983-97) * Co-chair, Civil Society Committee, United Nations Development Program
Educational Background:
* B.A., Dartmouth College * M.A., Princeton University
Member of the following board of directors:
* Alliance for Responsible Trade * International Forum on Globalization * International Labor Rights Fund * Interhemispheric Resource Center * Transnational Institute * Fund for Constitutional Government * Transnational Research and Action Center * Nontraditional Employment for Women
Publications:
* Alternatives to Economic Globalization (2002) * Field Guide to the Global Economy (2000) * Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order (1995) * Unequal Alliance: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Philippines (Studies in International Political Economy, No 19) (1990) * Beyond Bretton Woods: Alternatives to the Global Economic Order (1994) * Trading Freedom: How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work, and Environment (1991) * The World in Their Web: Oligopolistic Capitalism the Textile Multi-Nationals Today (1981) * Transnational Economy: Transnational Corporations and Global Markets (1982)
Quotation:
``The WTO is the creation of a previous era when freer markets and freer trade were seen as the answer to most things."
Nominating Speech:
Nominated by: Progressive Government Institute
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Progressive Criteria:
The Department of Commerce will:
Promote commerce to enhance citizens' lives, not simply to enrich investors;
Promote decent, well-paying, environmentally sustainable jobs;
Take the initiative in developing a Genuine Progress Indicator to replace GDP which does not adequately distinguish between good growth and destructive trends; Work to provide new guarantees for pension security;
Support very small businesses, minority and women-owned businesses;
Direct and manage the patent and trademark system to promote the common good by promoting valuable inventions, research and intellectual exchangee, as a higher priority than protecting corporate profits.
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