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The Macroeconomics of Sustainable Development:
Is It Possible To Eliminate Poverty and Increase Economic Growth Without Harming The Environment?

Based on the findings of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues (a.k.a. the Brandt Commission), the following issues will be explored: What is economic development? Do current prices reflect social and environmental realities? Why do many governments oppose the development and distribution of renewable resources? What incentives do business and finance need to develop and use alternative resources? What bearing does renewable energy have on international trade and finance? Doesn’t technology create pollution and increase unemployment? What is the asset base of modern international currency? What causes deflation and depression? How will renewable resources affect global monetary policy and world currency in the future?
Will sustainable development programs play a role in global economic recovery and growth? What is the likelihood of global economic coordination?

Biography:

James Bernard Quilligan has been an analyst and administrator in the field of international development since 1975. He has served as policy advisor and writer for many international politicians and leaders, including Pierre Trudeau, François Mitterand, Edward Heath, Julius Nyerere, Lopez Portillo, Olof Palme, Willy Brandt, and Jimmy Carter.

He has been an economic consultant for government agencies in Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Tanzania, Kuwait, India, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Canada, and the United States. He has also served as an advisor for several United Nations programs and international development organizations.

Quilligan’s articles, under his name or as a ghostwriter for others, have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Manchester Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, the Economist, World Press Review, and other books and publications. He continues to write and lecture on topics in international development and international political economy.

He is also a musician and composer. He has written twelve plays for the stage, all political musicals, three of which have been performed in Philadelphia and New York City.


EDUCATION

Quilligan received BA degrees in Philosophy and Literature from Kent State University (1973), an MA in Literature from Michigan State University (1975), and a PhD in International Relations from University of Chicago (1980). He also earned an MA in Political Campaign Management from Kent State University (1985), and completed all coursework but thesis toward an MA in Communication from the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania (1987).