Paradigms Lost: The Post -Cold War Era

by Chester Hartman

Seven ways third world debt affects us all. This classic book is now available from Pluto Press for the first time in the US, where it has been out of print for over 18 months. Susan George provides a lucid critique of World Bank and IMF policies, examining the far-reaching, but sometimes hidden, impact they can have on us all.

205 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Chester Hartman, an urban planner and author, is Director of Research for the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (where he was founding Executive Director from 1989-2003) in Washington, DC, and Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Sociology, George Washington University. Prior to taking his present position, he was a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Harvard and served on the faculty there as well as at Yale, the University of North Carolina, Cornell, the University of California-Berkeley, American University, and Columbia University.

- excerpted from http://www.prrac.org/about_staff.php