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John Richard Sandbrook OBE (13 August 1946 – 11 December 2005) was a co-founder of Friends of the Earth UK serving as Managing Director from 1974 to 1976..
Richard Sandbrook
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Epsom, The United KingdomWebsite
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Nonfiction, Contemporary
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The thinker who has exerted the strongest influence on my recent work The thinker who has exerted the strongest influence on my recent work is Karl Polanyi, especially his concept of the "double movement." Polanyi's key work is The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time ( [])more
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With both statist and market-based models of governance having failed at a time of enormous challenges, especially climate change, where do we turn?
This is the central question that has animated my study and writing during the past 15 years. My focus has been the global south, though the old distinction between developed/less-developed, First World/Third World is increasingly irrelevant in this global age.
I am a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto who recently “retired” after