On February 17th Alan Freeman visited Trondheim to give a lecture at a meeting aranged by NTNU/HiST Attac.

Freeman spoke about economics as a dicipline, not giving equlibrium economics much credit. He then elaborated into the effects of "globalization", talked about financial crises and started to get into his massive statistical materian on the effects of neoliberalism.

Alan Freemans Trondheim-lecture (extract):

PART 1: Freeman starts by discussing Gobalization, and the crisis in Argentine.

PART 2: Freeman contiues comparing current economists to the Papal Church in Galileos time.

PART 3: Freeman promises to show us a telescope.

PART 4: Freeman starts looking at the development of inequality under Globalization and points out, that not only have we had an increasing inequality in the world, but large parts of the world haven't had growth at all.

You can wiev the powerpoint-slides from Freemans lecture here: http://org.ntnu.no/attac/Freeman_pres-12-02-2007.ppt

We have now presented you with 40 minutes of Freemans preamble, and the start of his lecture. If you are interested in more details, we can recommend Freemans exellent article in "The Politics of Empire - Globalisation in Crisis", which he edited with Boris Kagarlitsky.
http://www.aglob.ru/en/books/?id=6
http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Empire-Globalisation-Transnational-Instit...

In Norwegian you can get the article in the book "Økonomisk apartheid" published by Attac Norge.
http://www.attac.no/omattac/nyheter/1159974677
http://www.bokkilden.no/SamboWeb/produkt.do?produktId=2355813&rom=MP

We can also recommend these articles by Freeman:
- How globalisation fuels poverty http://www.poptel.org.uk/scgn/articles/0507/p7.htm
- Why not eat children? http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1324934,00.html