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Written by Steve Suranovic, an Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs and former Director of the MA Program in International Trade & Investment Policy at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Student Projects
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Speaker AvailabilitySteve Suranovic is available for speaking engagements on globalization issues and public policy choice. Potential lecture topics are:
Contact him directly at smsuran@gwu.edu for further information. BooksA Moderate Compromise: Economic Policy Choice in an Era of Globalization - by Steve Suranovic (Palgrave McMillan, 2010)
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This book defines a moderate set of economic policies that straddles the political divide between liberalism and conservatism. It offers an approach to globalization policy choice that applies three simple principles to determine actions and argues that these principles are consistent with people's fundamental concerns across the ideological spectrum. The book motivates the need for this mechanism by arguing that traditional policy choice methods (e.g. cost benefit analysis et. al.) are more likely to spark divisiveness than to result in a large consensus of support.