2002 Events
Claes Brundenius
Associate Senior Professor, Center of Development Research (Copenhagen,
Denmark)
Claes Brundenius has been an Associate Senior Professor
at the Center for Development Research since 1997. He is at present
working on problems of economic restructuring in transition economies,
notably Cuba, Vietnam and China. Between 1976 and 1996 he was Research
Fellow (and between 1987 and 1992 Deputy Director) at the Research Policy
Institute of Lund University, Sweden, where he was directing studies
on Science and Technology Policies in the Third World. He has a Ph.D
in Economic History from Lund University and has also done undergraduate
studies at Brandeis University, USA.
He has been serving on various Research Councils and Editorial Boards
and is at present member of the Reference Group of the Swedish Research
Council for Development Research and of the Editorial Board of the European
Journal of Development Research.
He has written extensively on problems of developing countries and
his books include:
Globalization and Third World Socialism: Cuba and Vietnam (with John
Weeks), Palgrave, London and New York, 2001. Reconstruction or Destruction?
Science and Technology at Stake in Transition Economies (with Bo Göransson
and Prasada Reddy), Universities Press/Orient Longman, Hyderabad and
London, 1999. New Technologies and Global Restructuring. The Third World
at a Crossroads (with Bo Göransson), Taylor Graham, London, 1993.
The Cuban Economy. Measurement and Analysis of Socialist Performance
(with Andrew Zimbalist), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and
London, 1989. Revolutionary Cuba. The Challenge of Economic Growth with
Equity, Westview Press, Boulder, 1984.
When: Wednesday, October 16 at 5 PM
Where: Skylight Conference Room (9100)
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
To reserve, send e-mail to cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu or leave message
at (212) 817-2096
