Anwar Shaikh is Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School University. He is an Associate Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and was a Senior Scholar and member of the Macro Modeling Team at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College from 2000-2005. He is the author of three books, the most recent being Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade (2007, Routledge). His recent articles include “An International Comparison of the Incomes of the Vast Majority” (2008), “Competition and Industrial Rates of Return” (2008, forthcoming in a festschrift volume in honor of Ajit Singh), “Economic Policy in a Growth Context: A Classical Synthesis of Keynes and Harrod” (forthcoming in Metroeconomica 2009), and “Nonlinear Dynamics and Pseudo-Production Functions” (Eastern Economics Journal, 2005). He has written on international trade, finance theory, political economy, U.S. macroeconomic policy, the welfare state, growth theory, inflation theory, crisis theory, and inequality on the world scale, and past and current global economic crises.