Norman Girvan
Biographic Data
| ID | 642226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Girvan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Girvan |
| SIGNATURE | GIRVAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Corporate Imperialism
This title was first published in 1976. The anticolonial revolution of the 1950s challenged the edifice of political imperialism established by the European powers in the nineteenth century. In the 1970s another revolution appears to be sweeping the Third World, a movement which seeks to challenge the new imperialism of the transnational corporations (TNCs) established in the twentieth century. These essays, written explicitly from a Third World …
Assessing Westminster in the Caribbean
This paper offers a personal reflection on 50 years of independence in the Commonwealth Caribbean. It critiques the Westminster model as part of a larger ‘independence pact’ designed to maintain the status quo in the English-speaking Caribbean, and assesses the major challenges facing the region today. It argues for a broader conceptualisation of sovereignty and calls for the invention of a new Caribbean democracy
Extractive Imperialism in the Americas
Recent changes in the global economy, which include a growing demand for energy and natural resources such as industrial minerals and agro-food products, have brought about a massive devastating pillage of resources in the developing world by multinational corporations as well as states with energy and food security concerns—and concerns about a system (global capitalism) in the throes of a global crisis. These developments have also brought abou…
From the great transformation to the great financialization
This book encapsulates at least four broad themes. The first is the relevance of Karl Polanyi's critique of capitalism to the contemporary global financial crisis. In his seminal work, The Great Tr
Social Movements Confront Neoliberalism
In 2008 15 Caribbean countries signed an ‘Economic Partnership Agreement’ (EPA) with the European Union providing for liberalisation of trade and investment between the two regions and the binding of investor-friendly government policies. The agreement occasioned much controversy and was signed over the protests of many sectors of civil society. This article discusses the controversy from the perspective of social movements confronting neoliberal…
Technification, Sweetification, Treatyfication
This essay discusses the lessons to be learnt from the efforts of a Caribbean citizens' coalition to secure review and renegotiation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiated between 15 Caribbean countries and the European Union in 2008. To this end it examines the roles of ideology, power, governance and politics. It argues that the EPA institutionalizes a relationship of asymmetrical power with the European Union that is based on t…
Caribbean Dependency Thought Revisited
This paper assesses the contribution, limitations, and contemporary relevance of Caribbean dependency thought (CDT). CDT emerged in the early post-colonial period in the English-speaking Caribbean with a mission to extend political decolonization to the intellectual, economic, social, and cultural spheres. While part of broader international currents of radical thought, it had its own special characteristics, associated with the theory of plantat…
Lessons from the Struggle for a New International Technology Order
I first met Surendra Patel in the mid-1970s. He had organised a training seminar for officials in East Africa on the transfer of technology, and asked me to give a lecture in it. He followed this up with an invitation to come and join his team at the UNCTAD technology division in Geneva. I declined, for
Respondiendo a los retos de la globalización
El presidente mexicano Vicente Fox, en su discurso ante la 3a Cumbre de las Américas, en la ciudad de Quebec, resaltó que la región de Latinoamérica y el Caribe continúa siendo una de las más desiguales en el mundo, donde 220 millones de personas viven aún en condiciones de pobreza. Afirmó: "Ahora bien, sabemos que la pobreza, sobre todo la pobreza extrema, constituye un mecanismo implacable de exclusión en una democracia, pues separa física, psi…
A perspective from the South
Overcoming technological dependency
Transnational corporations and non-fuel primary commodities in developing countries
The IMF and the Foreclosure of Development Options
On October 30, 1980, the Michael Manley government in Jamaica was removed from office by an electoral coup d'etat. The people of Jamaica, after four years of battering from steeply rising prices, growing unemployment, shortages of basic commodities, widespread violence and political assassination, and a relentless anti-Communist campaign, voted for "deliverance" from their suffering and their trauma. The change in the attitude of the people was a…
White Magic
The Question of Compensation
Copper in Chile
Journal Article Copper in Chile Get access Copper in Chile. A Study in Conflict Between Corporate and National Economy. By Norman Girvan. (Jamaica: University of the West Indies, 1972. Pp. xi + 86. JS2.00.)The Chilean Response to Foreign Investment. By Stephen Lau. (New York: Praeger, 1972. Pp. 118. £6.25.) M. L. O. Faber M. L. O. Faber University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic…
Bauxite
Bauxite
Readers' Commentary
Los ordenamientos institucionales y la integración económica del caribe y de latinoamérica
Corporate Imperialism
This title was first published in 1976. The anticolonial revolution of the 1950s challenged the edifice of political imperialism established by the European powers in the nineteenth century. In the 1970s another revolution appears to be sweeping the Third World, a movement which seeks to challenge the new imperialism of the transnational corporations (TNCs) established in the twentieth century. These essays, written explicitly from a Third World …
Assessing Westminster in the Caribbean
This paper offers a personal reflection on 50 years of independence in the Commonwealth Caribbean. It critiques the Westminster model as part of a larger ‘independence pact’ designed to maintain the status quo in the English-speaking Caribbean, and assesses the major challenges facing the region today. It argues for a broader conceptualisation of sovereignty and calls for the invention of a new Caribbean democracy
White Magic
Caribbean Dependency Thought Revisited
This paper assesses the contribution, limitations, and contemporary relevance of Caribbean dependency thought (CDT). CDT emerged in the early post-colonial period in the English-speaking Caribbean with a mission to extend political decolonization to the intellectual, economic, social, and cultural spheres. While part of broader international currents of radical thought, it had its own special characteristics, associated with the theory of plantat…
Transnational corporations and non-fuel primary commodities in developing countries
The IMF and the Foreclosure of Development Options
On October 30, 1980, the Michael Manley government in Jamaica was removed from office by an electoral coup d'etat. The people of Jamaica, after four years of battering from steeply rising prices, growing unemployment, shortages of basic commodities, widespread violence and political assassination, and a relentless anti-Communist campaign, voted for "deliverance" from their suffering and their trauma. The change in the attitude of the people was a…
Social Movements Confront Neoliberalism
In 2008 15 Caribbean countries signed an ‘Economic Partnership Agreement’ (EPA) with the European Union providing for liberalisation of trade and investment between the two regions and the binding of investor-friendly government policies. The agreement occasioned much controversy and was signed over the protests of many sectors of civil society. This article discusses the controversy from the perspective of social movements confronting neoliberal…
The Question of Compensation
Overcoming technological dependency
Bauxite
Bauxite
Los ordenamientos institucionales y la integración económica del caribe y de latinoamérica
Readers' Commentary
Bauxite
Bauxite
Copper in Chile
Journal Article Copper in Chile Get access Copper in Chile. A Study in Conflict Between Corporate and National Economy. By Norman Girvan. (Jamaica: University of the West Indies, 1972. Pp. xi + 86. JS2.00.)The Chilean Response to Foreign Investment. By Stephen Lau. (New York: Praeger, 1972. Pp. 118. £6.25.) M. L. O. Faber M. L. O. Faber University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic…
The Question of Compensation
White Magic
The IMF and the Foreclosure of Development Options
On October 30, 1980, the Michael Manley government in Jamaica was removed from office by an electoral coup d'etat. The people of Jamaica, after four years of battering from steeply rising prices, growing unemployment, shortages of basic commodities, widespread violence and political assassination, and a relentless anti-Communist campaign, voted for "deliverance" from their suffering and their trauma. The change in the attitude of the people was a…
Transnational corporations and non-fuel primary commodities in developing countries
Overcoming technological dependency
A perspective from the South
Respondiendo a los retos de la globalización
El presidente mexicano Vicente Fox, en su discurso ante la 3a Cumbre de las Américas, en la ciudad de Quebec, resaltó que la región de Latinoamérica y el Caribe continúa siendo una de las más desiguales en el mundo, donde 220 millones de personas viven aún en condiciones de pobreza. Afirmó: "Ahora bien, sabemos que la pobreza, sobre todo la pobreza extrema, constituye un mecanismo implacable de exclusión en una democracia, pues separa física, psi…
Caribbean Dependency Thought Revisited
This paper assesses the contribution, limitations, and contemporary relevance of Caribbean dependency thought (CDT). CDT emerged in the early post-colonial period in the English-speaking Caribbean with a mission to extend political decolonization to the intellectual, economic, social, and cultural spheres. While part of broader international currents of radical thought, it had its own special characteristics, associated with the theory of plantat…
Lessons from the Struggle for a New International Technology Order
I first met Surendra Patel in the mid-1970s. He had organised a training seminar for officials in East Africa on the transfer of technology, and asked me to give a lecture in it. He followed this up with an invitation to come and join his team at the UNCTAD technology division in Geneva. I declined, for
Technification, Sweetification, Treatyfication
This essay discusses the lessons to be learnt from the efforts of a Caribbean citizens' coalition to secure review and renegotiation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiated between 15 Caribbean countries and the European Union in 2008. To this end it examines the roles of ideology, power, governance and politics. It argues that the EPA institutionalizes a relationship of asymmetrical power with the European Union that is based on t…
Social Movements Confront Neoliberalism
In 2008 15 Caribbean countries signed an ‘Economic Partnership Agreement’ (EPA) with the European Union providing for liberalisation of trade and investment between the two regions and the binding of investor-friendly government policies. The agreement occasioned much controversy and was signed over the protests of many sectors of civil society. This article discusses the controversy from the perspective of social movements confronting neoliberal…
From the great transformation to the great financialization
This book encapsulates at least four broad themes. The first is the relevance of Karl Polanyi's critique of capitalism to the contemporary global financial crisis. In his seminal work, The Great Tr
Extractive Imperialism in the Americas
Recent changes in the global economy, which include a growing demand for energy and natural resources such as industrial minerals and agro-food products, have brought about a massive devastating pillage of resources in the developing world by multinational corporations as well as states with energy and food security concerns—and concerns about a system (global capitalism) in the throes of a global crisis. These developments have also brought abou…
Assessing Westminster in the Caribbean
This paper offers a personal reflection on 50 years of independence in the Commonwealth Caribbean. It critiques the Westminster model as part of a larger ‘independence pact’ designed to maintain the status quo in the English-speaking Caribbean, and assesses the major challenges facing the region today. It argues for a broader conceptualisation of sovereignty and calls for the invention of a new Caribbean democracy
Corporate Imperialism
This title was first published in 1976. The anticolonial revolution of the 1950s challenged the edifice of political imperialism established by the European powers in the nineteenth century. In the 1970s another revolution appears to be sweeping the Third World, a movement which seeks to challenge the new imperialism of the transnational corporations (TNCs) established in the twentieth century. These essays, written explicitly from a Third World …
Political science (15 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Geography (4 works)