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Susan George

1934 - Today

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Susan George (born June 29, 1934) is an American and French political and social scientist, activist and writer on global social justice, Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt. She is the president of the Transnational Institute, a think-tank located in Amsterdam. She is a fierce critic of the present policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (IBRD) and what she calls their 'maldevelopment model'. She similarly criticizes the structural reform policies of the Washington Consensus on Third World development. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Susan George is the 1,056th most popular philosopher (up from 1,095th in 2019), the 6,044th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,984th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Susan George ranks 1,056 out of 1,267. Before her are Mary Whiton Calkins, Carl Dahlhaus, Johann Eduard Erdmann, Heymann Steinthal, Idomeneus of Lampsacus, and J. L. Mackie. After her are Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, Alois Riehl, Harald Høffding, Boris Parygin, Samuel ibn Tibbon, and Friedrich Eduard Beneke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Susan George ranks 306. Before her are Jimmy Fontana, Oscar Cruz, Claudio Scimone, Vilhjálmur Einarsson, Martí Vergés, and Kjell Bäckman. After her are Gleb Panfilov, Phan Văn Khải, Roy Kerr, Nikolai Slichenko, Marc Rich, and Galina Bystrova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Susan George ranks 6,044 out of 20,380. Before her are Vanilla Ice (1967), Dean Phillips (1969), Edward Robinson (1794), Terrence Howard (1969), Nicole Scherzinger (1978), and William Gilmore (1895). After her are Joshua Angrist (1960), Sandy Martin (1949), Chester Thompson (1948), Dixie Carter (1939), Steve Anderson (1906), and Chuck Close (1940).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Susan George ranks 50. Before her are Ram Dass (1931), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Lysander Spooner (1808), Lon L. Fuller (1902), Hubert Dreyfus (1929), and Mary Whiton Calkins (1863). After her are Amina Wadud (1952), Edmund Gettier (1927), Mary Daly (1928), Josiah Royce (1855), William Lane Craig (1949), and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825).

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