Martin Hart-Landsberg is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. He is the author of seven books on issues related to globalization and the political economy of East Asia. His work has been translated into Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Turkish, and Norwegian. He has also published numerous articles in journals such as Monthly Review, Review of Radical Political Economics, Critical Asian Studies, Historical Materialism, Against the Current, and the Journal of Contemporary Asia.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Korea Policy Institute and the steering committee of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned About Korea, and has served as consultant for the Korea program of the American Friends Service Committee. He is the chair of Portland Rising, a committee of Portland Jobs With Justice, and a member of the organizing committee of the Workers’ Rights Board (Portland, Oregon). He is also the chair of the Oregon chapter of the National Writers Union.
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