John Cavanagh
Fellow
Global Economy
johnc@ips-dc.org
1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC, 20036
John Cavanagh
John has a BA from Dartmouth College and a MA from Princeton University. He worked as an international economist for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1978-1981) and the World Health Organization (1981-1982). He directed IPS's Global Economy Project from 1983-1997. He is the co-author of 10 books and numerous articles on the global economy, including Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match (2008, Paradigm Publishers), written with Robin Broad.
Recent Work
Blog
The State of the 99 Percent
January 25 - The Occupy movement is clearly affecting political rhetoric... but what about real action?
Blog
Unconventional Wisdom: Bread and Roses
January 12 - Ponder the 100th anniversary of one of the most important strikes in American labor history, a key moment in the history that now leads us to the Occupy movement.
Commentary
Human Rights over Corporate Rights: Taking on the Trade Laws of the 1 Percent
December 29 - A protest at the World Bank supported El Salvador's attempts to say no to gold mining and yes to democracy.