Karen Pfeifer
Karen Pfeifer is professor emerita of economics at Smith College and vice chair of MERIP’s board of directors.
Articles by this Author
| Kuwait's Economic Quandary |
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MER223 |
| Reform or Reaction? |
This issue of Middle East Report presents critical -- and timely -- analysis of the impact of neoliberal economic policies in the Middle East and North Africa. Authors representing a variety of disciplines and viewpoints explore the... |
MER210 |
| How Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan and Even Egypt Became IMF "Success Stories" in the 1990s |
Just as European missionaries were the spiritual handmaidens of nineteenth-century colonialism, so has the International Monetary Fund (IMF) assumed a modern-day mission in support of world trade, finance and investment. The mission aims to... |
MER210 |
| To Clear the Minefield |
Irene Gendzier, Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997). With the February 1998 news that the Clinton... |
MER207 |
| Development Revisited |
Berch Berberoğlu, The Political Economy of Development: Theory and the Prospects for Change in the Third World (SUNY, 1992). Timothy Morris, The Despairing Developer: Diary of an... |
MER185 |
| Class Acts in the Middle East |
Berch Berberoglu, ed., Power and Stability in the Middle East (Zed, 1989). Alan Richards and John Waterbury, A Political Economy of the Middle East: State, Class and Economic Development (... |
MER170 |
| Petrodollars at Work and in Play in the Post-September 11 Decade |
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MER260 |
| Letter from Jordan |
“Can you help me get a job in the United States?” “We like Saddam because he is a man of his word: He stood up to the Kuwaiti cheaters and now he is standing up to foreign domination and US intervention in the Arab world.... |
MER167 |
| Gulf Juggernaut |
Adam Hanieh, Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). |
MER263 |
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