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Mike Veseth
Robert G. Albertson Professor

International Political Economy
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, Washington USA 98416-1057
 

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E-mail: Veseth@PugetSound.edu

 

 

Mike Veseth (pronounced VEE-seth) is the Robert G. Albertson Professor of  International Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, where he has taught since 1975.  He is an authority on the political economy of globalization and the global wine market. Mike is editor of The Wine Economist blog and author of more than a dozen books including Wine Wars: The Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck and the Revenge of the Terroirists.

Mike has received many honors and awards; most recently he was named Washington Professor of the Year in 2010 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

Mike's 2005 book, Globaloney, was named a Best Business Book of 2005 by Library Journal. Wine Wars (2011) as named a Book of the Year by JancisRobinson.com and a Best American Wine Book by Gourmand International.

Mike has taught at the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems (Prague, 2005, 2006) and at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (Bologna, Italy, 1997).  He was Academic Advisor to the award winning educational website for the PBS/WGBH series, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (2002).

 

Mike's newest book is called Wine Wars: The Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck and the Revenge of the Terroirists. You can read more about this project at Veseth's popular blog, The Wine Economist.

 

 

 

Globaloney 2.0: The Crash of 2008 and the Future of Globalization, is a major revision of his earlier Globaloney that takes into account the global financial crisis and argues that globalization must be fundamentally reworked if it is to reemerge in a more feasible, sustainable form.

 

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An economist by training, Veseth is author, editor or co-author of more  than a dozen books, including

  • Wine Wars: The Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck and the Revenge of the Terroirists. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).

  • Globaloney 2.0: The Crash of 2008 and the Future of Globalization. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).

  • Globaloney: Unraveling the Myths of Globalization (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005),

  • The New York Times's Review of the 20th Century: The Rise of the Global Economy (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2002),

  • Selling Globalization: The Myth of the Global Economy (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998) and

  • Mountains of Debt: Crisis and Change in Renaissance Florence, Victorian Britain, and Postwar America (Oxford University Press, 1990).   

  • Veseth has also authored or co-authored university textbooks in the fields of Economics, Public Finance and International Political Economy.

Education:

Ph.D. Economics, Purdue University (1975).
M.S. Economics, Purdue University (1974).
B.A., Economics & Mathematics (Honors in Economics). University of Puget Sound (1972).