Professor of Economics and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on globalization, Asian regionalism, China's political economy and economic development in Canada. His recent books include Capitalism (Pearson 2012), National Currencies and Globalization: endangered specie? (Routledge 2011), and (co-edited with John Harris) Globalization and Labour in China and India: impacts and responses (Palgrave Macmillan 2010). He is currently working on a project on 'Globalizing northern British Columbia' of which the article in Journal of Globalization Studies is a part.