Lloyd Best is an internationally recognised economist and
Caribbean intellectual whose contribution is captured in the title
of his seminal work, Independent Thought and Caribbean Freedom. He
pioneered the New World Movement and its journal, New World
Quarterly. He also founded the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of the
West Indies (now the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies) as a
think tank for research and discussion of Caribbean issues. Most of
his writings were published as newspaper columns spanning decades
of endeavour. He is also the co-author of Economic Policy and
Management Choices: A Contemporary Economic History of Trinidad and
Tobago, 1950-2005. In 2002 he received the Order of the Caribbean
Community.
Kari Polanyi Levitt is Professor Emerita in the Department
of Economics, McGill University, Canada. Among her publications are
Silent Surrender: The Multinational Corporation in Canada,
Reclaiming Development: Independent Thought and Caribbean
Community, and a comprehensive collection, The George Beckford
Papers. From 1989 to 1997, she was Visiting Professor at the
Consortium Graduate School and the first George Beckford Professor
of Political Economy at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
She was founder of the Canadian Association for the Study of
International Development and of the Karl Polanyi Institute of
Political Economy in Canada.
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