This is a reminder about our book party for "Reclaiming Development."
For those of you who missed the Conference -- here's another chance to hear Ilene Grabel talk about her new book and the issues it raises.
And for those of you who made it to the Summer Conference, it will be a chance to continue this discussion with Ilene, and to see some of the other people with whom you just spent a great weekend!
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URPE AT BRECHT FORUM, SPRING 2004
presented by New York Union for Radical Political Economics and the Brecht Forum
at the Brecht Forum, 122 West 27th St., 10th floor (between 6th and 7th)
212-242-4201
Sliding Scale: $6/$8/$10
Wednesday June 9, 7:30 pm
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YOU ARE INVITED TO A DISCUSSION WITH ILENE GRABEL
AND BOOK PARTY FOR
“RECLAIMING DEVELOPMENT: AN ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC POLICY MANUAL”
by political economists Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel
Refreshments will be served.
“There Is No Alternative!” This is the famous pronouncement by Margaret Thatcher when she faced widespread opposition to her program of radical free-market, neo-liberal reform during the 1980s. In their new book, Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel show that the “no alternative” dictum is fundamentally and dangerously incorrect. They demonstrate that feasible alternatives to neo-liberalism exist that can promote equitable and sustainable economic development in the South. They offer a wide range of practical policies to shatter the idea that there is no alternative, and to contribute to the vigorous campaign now underway across the globe to “Reclaim Development.”
The hope for equitable, stable and sustainable development has been too long deferred by economists and policymakers who are so wedded to the neo-liberal orthodoxy that they can neither imagine nor countenance any alternative. They have pursued the neo-liberal agenda with extraordinary single-mindedness and hubris. The effect has been devastating: in the wake of the neo-liberal experiment, we find extraordinary misery, inequality and despair on a scale unknown in recent human history. The need and opportunity to reclaim the development agenda has never been more pressing.
SPEAKER:
Ilene Grabel, Ph.D., is an Economist and is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver. She has worked as a consultant to the UN/UNCTAD Group of Twenty-Four on policies to prevent financial crises in developing countries, the UN University’s World Institute for Development Economics Research, the international NGO coalition, “New Rules for Global Finance,” and the Center for Popular Economics. She lectures at the Cambridge University Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics. Grabel has published widely in academic and popular journals on financial policy and crises in developing countries, international capital flows, and central banks and currency boards.
