Mike Veseth
Robert G. Albertson Professor
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International Political Economy
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, Washington USA 98416-1057
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(253) 879-3720 voice (253) 879-3500 fax
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
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Wine Wars: The
Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck and the
Revenge of the Terroirists. (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2011).
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Globaloney 2.0:
The Crash of 2008 and the Future of Globalization. (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2010).
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Globaloney: Unraveling the
Myths of Globalization (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005),
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The New York Times's Review of the 20th Century: The Rise of the Global Economy
(Fitzroy Dearborn
Publishers, 2002),
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Selling Globalization: The Myth of the Global Economy (Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 1998) and
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Mountains of Debt: Crisis and Change in Renaissance Florence,
Victorian Britain, and Postwar America
(Oxford University Press, 1990).
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Veseth has also authored or
co-authored university textbooks in the fields of Economics,
Public Finance and International Political Economy.