Geoff Mann is the director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University, where he is a member of the Department of Geography. His teaching and research focus on the political economy of contemporary capitalism, with a special emphasis on the power and politics of macroeconomic policy in Europe and North America. He has contributed to New Left Review, Historical Materialism, and Antipode (among other publications), and his book, Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers and the Political Economy of the American West (UNC, 2007), won the American Political Science Association’s Michael Harrington Prize and the American Sociological Association’s Paul Sweezy Prize. He is currently writing a book on the many lives of Keynesianism. Geoff has a long association with the Dogwood Initiative, a NGO based in Victoria, BC, and with the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. He and his partner Michelle and their sons Finn and Seamus live, obsess about soccer, and cook up a lot of excellent Mexican food right near Trout Lake Park in East Vancouver.