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Professor Michael Veseth
Robert G. Albertson Professor
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International Political Economy
University of Puget Sound CMB 1057
Tacoma, Washington USA 98416-1057
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(253) 879-3720 voice (253) 879-3500 fax
E-mail: Veseth@PugetSound.edu
Globaloney2.com
WineEconomist.com
Mike Veseth 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's new book, Globaloney 2.0:
The Crash of 2008 and the Future of Globalization, will be
published in December 2009. It 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.
His next project is a book on the global wine market,
Grape Expectations: Globalization, Two Buck Chuck and the Future
of Wine. You can read more about this
project at Veseth's popular blog,
The Wine Economist.
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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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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).
Professor Veseth's trilogy of
books on globalization has drawn considerable attention.
Selling Globalization presents a critique of
pro-globalization policies and rhetoric based upon an analysis
of the
instability of global finance. The New York Times
volume traces the "double movement" of globalization in the 20th
century using more than 500 newspaper articles that span the
20th century.
Globaloney completed the series by
presenting a critique of anti-globalization rhetoric and
examining the diversity of globalization effects on the ground
as opposed to the broad generalizations of popular theory. The
forthcoming Globaloney 2.0 combines insights from all
these projects in an attempt to recast globalization in light of
the continuing economic crisis.
Veseth 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 educational
website for the PBS/WGBH series, The
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
(2002).
Veseth has received a
number of teaching awards and academic honors. Most recently, his book Globaloney,
was named a Best Business Book of 2005 by Library Journal.
He was appointed to the Albertson Professorship in 2007.