Books by Authors in Adbusters (2009)

Roland Kelts

Contributor in #86, 84, 83, 81, 80 and 79

Biography from Amazon: Roland Nozomu Kelts is a half-Japanese American writer who divides his time between New York and Tokyo and publishes in both English and Japanese. He is also a lecturer at the University of Tokyo, a contributing editor and writer for "Adbusters" magazine and "A Public Space" literary journal, and a columnist for "The Daily Yomiuri" in Japan. His writing appears in "A Wild Haruki Chase," "Gamers," "Kuhaku," "Playboy's College Fiction," "Zoetrope" and others.

Alexander Zaitchik

Contributor in #86

Biography from Amazon: Alexander Zaitchik was born in 1974 and raised in Boston. He began his journalism career at age 19 with the launch of an undergraduate alternative newspaper, The Other Voice. After completing degrees in history and politics in the late 1990s, he moved to Prague, Czech Republic, and covered Eastern Europe and the Balkans for a range of American and British publications. He also worked for a think tank under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, in 2001, founded a biweekly newspaper, The Prague Pill. In 2003, he returned to the U.S. as a staff writer and editor at New York Press, a once-great Manhattan-based weekly. After resigning from the Press in 2005, he spent the next four years freelancing, working out of New Delhi, Miami, Mexico City, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, where he was on staff at The Exile. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend, Brenda, and a small house mouse, Albert.

Paul Ormerod

Contributor in #85 and 74

Biography from Wikipedia: Paul Ormerod is an economist who is currently researching complexity, complex systems, nonlinear feedback, the boom and bust cycle of business and economic competition. Ormerod uses a multidisciplinary approach, making use of biology, physics, mathematics, statistics and psychology as sources of results that can be applied to economics.

David Orrell

Contributor in #85

Biography from Amazon: David Orrell is an applied mathematician and author of popular science books. He studied mathematics at the University of Alberta, and obtained his doctorate from Oxford University on the prediction of nonlinear systems. His work in applied mathematics and complex systems research has since led him to diverse areas such as weather forecasting, economics, and cancer biology.

Robert Jensen

Contributor in #85

Biography from Wikipedia: Robert William Jensen (born July 14, 1958) is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication. He joined the faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media law and ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. Jensen also is director of the Senior Fellows Program, the honors program of the UT College of Communication.

Julie Matthaei

Contributor in #85

Biography from Wellesley College: A Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, where she has been teaching since 1978, and the mother of a daughter, Ella. A feminist, Marxist, anti-racist, ecological economist.

Steve Keen

Contributor in #84

Biography from Wikipedia: Steve Keen is an Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He identifies as post-Keynesian, criticizing both modern neoclassical economics and (some of) Marxian economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa and Joseph Alois Schumpeter. His recent work mostly concentrates on mathematical modeling and simulation of financial instability.

Greg Felton

Contributor in #84

Biography from LinkedIn: A freelance journalist residing in Vancouver.

Tim Jackson

Contributor in #84

Biography from Sustainable Development Commission: Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development in the Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES) at the University of Surrey. His current research interests include consumer behaviour, sustainable energy systems, ecological economics and environmental philosophy. In the last twelve years he has pioneered the development of an 'adjusted' measure of economic growth - a 'green GDP' - for the UK. Since January 2003, Tim has been employed at CES under a research fellowship on the 'social psychology' of consumer behaviour.

Gilad Atzmon

Contributor in #83, 81 and 72

Biography from Wikipedia: An Israeli-born British jazz musician. He is also known as an author and political activist who denounces Judaism as well as Zionism.

David Graeber

Contributor in #83 and 82

Biography from Wikipedia: David Rolfe Graeber (born 12 February 1961) is an American anthropologist and anarchist who currently holds the position of Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London [1] He was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, although Yale controversially declined to rehire him, and his term there ended in June 2007. Graeber has a history of social and political activism, including his role in protests against the World Economic Forum in New York City (2002) and membership in the labor union Industrial Workers of the World.

Ziauddin Sardar

Contributor in #82

Biography from Wikipedia: Ziauddin Sardar (born 31 October 1951, Pakistan) is a London-based scholar, writer and cultural-critic who specializes in the future of Islam, science and cultural relations. Prospect magazine has named him as one of Britain's top 100 public intellectuals and The Independent newspaper calls him: 'Britain's own Muslim polymath'.

Stephen Duncombe

Contributor in #82

Biography from How To Win: Stephen Duncombe is an Associate Professor at New York University where he teaches the history and politics of media and culture. He is the author of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy and Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture, the editor of the Cultural Resistance Reader, and co-author of The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York. He also writes widely on culture and politics for a number of publications, from the cerebral Nation to the more prurient Playboy. He is a lifelong political activist, co-founding the community activist group, the Lower East Side Collective, and working as a key organizer for the New York City chapter of the international direct-action group Reclaim the Streets.

Jean-Paul Rodrigue

Contributor in #82

Biography from Wikipedia: Jean-Paul Rodrigue (born July 20, 1967 in Montreal, Canada) is a published author on the topic of transportation geography. He has a PhD in transport geography from the Universite de Montreal (1994) and has been part of the Department of Economics and Geography at Hofstra University since 1999. His work, L'espace economique mondial: les economies avancees et la mondialisation, (The Global Economic Space: Advanced Economies and Globalization) won the PricewaterhouseCoopers "Best Business Book" award in 2000.

Lester Brown

Contributor in #82

Biography from Wikipedia: Lester R. Brown (born March 28, 1934) is an American environmentalist, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C. BBC Radio commentator Peter Day calls him "one of the great pioneer environmentalists."

Brown is the author or co-author of over 50 books on global environmental issues and his works have been translated into more than forty languages. His most recent book is Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum describes it as "a great book which should wake up humankind." Brown summarized many of the major issues confronting civilization in the May, 2009 issue of Scientific American, stressing that "the biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries," and one that could "bring down civilization."

Herman Daly

Contributor in #81

Biography from Wikipedia: Herman Daly (born 1938) is an American ecological economist and professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park in the United States.

He was Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank, where he helped to develop policy guidelines related to sustainable development. While there, he was engaged in environmental operations work in Latin America. He is closely associated with theories of a Steady state economy.

Before joining the World Bank, Daly was Alumni Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University. He was a co-founder and associate editor of the journal, Ecological Economics.

Jonathan Cook

Contributor in #81

Biography from Wikipedia: Jonathan Cook (born 1965) is a British writer and freelance journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, who specializes in writing about the Middle East, and more specifically, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Described by the Scottish newspaper, The Herald as, "well known for his work on the Middle East," Cook's articles are published in a number of newspapers, including The Guardian, The Observer, The International Herald Tribune, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al-Ahram Weekly, Al Jazeera, and The National in Abu Dhabi. A contributor of chapters to books published by academic presses, he is also the author of three books: Blood and Religion (2006), Israel and the Clash of Civilizations (2008), and Disappearing Palestine (2008).

Richard Neville

Contributor in #81

Biography from Wikipedia: Richard Neville (born 1941) is an Australian author and self-described "futurist", who came to fame as a co-editor of the counterculture magazine Oz in Australia and the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was involved with the Sydney Push libertarians at the University of New South Wales in the early 1960s during the production of the Sydney-based Oz Magazine.

Simon Critchley

Contributor in #81

Biography from Wikipedia: Simon Critchley (born February 27, 1960 in Hertfordshire) is an English philosopher currently teaching at The New School. He works in continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, literature, ethics and politics. Critchley argues that philosophy commences in disappointment, either religious or political. These two axes may be said largely to inform his published work: religious disappointment raises the question of meaning and has to, as he sees it, deal with the problem of nihilism; political disappointment provokes the question of justice and raises the need for a coherent ethics.

Kalle Lasn

Founder and CEO of Adbusters Media Foundation

Biography from HarperCollins: Featured in the PBS documentary Affluenza, Kalle Lasn, whose documentaries have been broadcast on PBS, CBC, and around the world, has won 15 international awards, and has been profiled in Time. As publisher of Adbusters magazine and founder of Media Foundation and Powershift Advertising Agency, Lasn has launched social marketing campaigns like Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week. He and his wife, Masako Tominaga, make their home in Vancouver, Canada.