About the Author

Kenneth A. Reinert is Professor of Public Policy at the Schar School of Policy and Government of George Mason University. He received a School of Public Policy Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003 and served as Director of the International Commerce and Policy Program from 2007 to 2010 and 2013 to 2020.

Professor Reinert received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland and held the positions of Senior International Economist at the US International Trade Commission and Associate Professor of Economics at Kalamazoo College. He has consulted for the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the OECD Development Centre, and the US Department of Commerce.

Professor Reinert has published over 80 papers in professional journals and edited volumes in the areas of international trade, economic development, and environmental policy. He is author of An Introduction to International Economics: New Perspectives on the World Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2012, 2021) and No Small Hope: Towards the Universal Provision of Basic Goods (Oxford University Press, 2018), and co-author of Globalization for Development: Meeting New Challenges (Oxford University Press, 2012). He is editor of the Handbook of Globalisation and Development (Edward Elgar, 2017) and co-editor of Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis: A Handbook (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and the two-volume Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2009).