Norman girvan and globalization effects on people

Norman Paul Girvan, Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies, passed away on 9th April in Cuba.

Professor Girvan a frequent contributor to CounterPunch was an economist with a difference, one who wrote intelligibly so non-economists could understand the complexities of Caribbean dependency and underdevelopment. But more than this, he was an economist who had a deep historical materialist sensibility, who rooted his thoughts and insights in the past social, political and economic processes that went into the making of the contemporary Caribbean.

As a Caribbean man Norman was an integrationist and a sovereignist. He saw the region as a continuous whole and was always ready to challenge those who sought to minimise its tortured sovereignty. Norman felt equally at home in all the Caribbean cultures and I still recall the movingly humble acceptance speech he gave at the Universidad de la Habana on the occasion of his being awarded an honorary doctorate from that prestigious institution.

Norman Girvan in his article, Globalisation, Fragmentation and Integration: A Caribbean Perspective posits that indeed the Caribbean has benefited from the global project with .

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