by Susan George · Icaria editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474265460
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«Pongamos la OMC en su sitio» is Susan George's international economics essay, published by Icaria editorial in paperback (118 pages, in Spanish).
Susan George explains the origin, ideology and functioning of the World Trade Organization and reviews its most relevant actions. The author, linked to ATTAC, warns of the risks that the General Agreement on Trade in Services may pose to citizens and offers a critical view of its global impact.
Published in February 2002. The cover mentions ATTAC and the Icaria · Más Madera imprint; Susan George was vice president of ATTAC.
A work for readers interested in international economics, global trade and criticism of globalization.
Susan George was an American and French political and social scientist, activist and writer on global social justice, Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt. She was the president of the Transnational Institute, a think-tank located in Amsterdam. She was a fierce critic of the present policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (IBRD) and what she called their 'maldevelopment model'. She similarly criticized the structural reform policies of the Washington Consensus on Third World development. She was of U.S. birth but resided in France, and had dual citizenship since 1994.
