Erik S. Reinert is Professor of Technology and Development Strategies at the Tallinn Technical University in Estonia, and is the President of the Other Canon Foundation. He has written two books including lsquo;How Rich Countries Got Rich....and Why Poor Countries Stay Poorrsquo; (2007) and lsquo;Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality: An Alternative Perspectiversquo; (2004). He also co-edited lsquo;The Origins of Economic Development: How Schools of Economic Thought Have Addressed Developmentrsquo; (2005).Francesca Lidia Viano is a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Turin. She is a former fellow of Cornell University, the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi and the… Fondazione Firpo. Her publications include lsquo;Thorstein Veblen: Tra utopia e disincantorsquo; (2002) and lsquo;La Statua della Libertagrave;: Storia di una icona politicarsquo; (2008).