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Professor Michael Veseth
Robert G. Albertson Professor

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

(253) 879-3720 voice (253) 879-3500 fax
E-mail: Veseth@PugetSound.edu

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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

  • 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).   

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.

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).

 

Michael Veseth
Contact: veseth@ups.edu