Steven speaks about the global economic melt down and what governments should be doing

Program Title: Latin Waves Interviews Economist Stephen McBride about his new book "Paradigm Shift"
Description: Part A**** is for Syndication for Participating stations, including CHRW, CKMS and The Eagle , Rossland Radio, CJAM, CKDU and our newest participating station CHLY 101.7 FM and Now CJUM Winnipeg **

Stephen McBride, Professor and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy, specializes in political economy, and comparative public policy, and Canadian politics. He is the author of Not Working: State, Unemployment and Neo-conservatism in Canada (1992) which won the 1994 Smiley prize, and Paradigm Shift: Globalization and the Canadian State (2001; 2nd edition 2005). He is the co-author of Dismantling a Nation: Canada and the New World Order (1993; 2nd edition 1997) and several co-edited volumes: Global Turbulence: Social Activists’ and State Responses to Globalization (2003), Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy (2002), Globalization and its Discontents (2000), and Power in a Global Era (2000). His current research is focused on the impact of globalization on the state, and the political economy of labour and the welfare state.

Steven McBride prolific author and scholar speaks to Latin Waves about Canada’s historical international economy built on close relations with succeeding hegemonic powers. He argues the role of governments has been central to the economy and explains how this shift to neoliberalism’s economic orthodoxy that confined the state to a minimal role and trumpets the virtue of market solutions.

Host(s): Stuart and Sylvia Richardson
Featured Speakers/Guests: Stephen McBride

Credits: Stuart and Sylvia Richardson,
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Comments: Part A**** is for Syndication for Participating stations, including CHRW, CKMS and The Eagle , Rossland Radio, CJAM, CKDU and our newest participating station CHLY 101.7 FM and Now CJUM Winnipeg **

Stephen McBride, Professor and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy, specializes in political economy, and comparative public policy, and Canadian politics. He is the author of Not Working: State, Unemployment and Neo-conservatism in Canada (1992) which won the 1994 Smiley prize, and Paradigm Shift: Globalization and the Canadian State (2001; 2nd edition 2005). He is the co-author of Dismantling a Nation: Canada and the New World Order (1993; 2nd edition 1997) and several co-edited volumes: Global Turbulence: Social Activists’ and State Responses to Globalization (2003), Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy (2002), Globalization and its Discontents (2000), and Power in a Global Era (2000). His current research is focused on the impact of globalization on the state, and the political economy of labour and the welfare state.

Steven McBride prolific author and scholar speaks to Latin Waves about Canada’s historical international economy built on close relations with succeeding hegemonic powers. He argues the role of governments has been central to the economy and explains how this shift to neoliberalism’s economic orthodoxy that confined the state to a minimal role and trumpets the virtue of market solutions.