He earned his doctorate in economic geography at Johns Hopkins University, following part-time business studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and an undergraduate degree in economics from Swarthmore College. Chase-Dunn has done crossnational quantitative studies on the effects of foreign investment, and on city size hierarchies. He studies intersocietal systems, including both the modern global political economy and earlier regional world-systems. And his study of economic and political globalization in the modern world-system over the past 200 years is supported by the National Science Foundation. Researcher in alternative economics.
Current research is on relations among macro-economic parameters and distribution indexes.
Andre Gunder Frank is Professor Emeritus of Development Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at the University of Miami and Florida International University. Ernesto R. Gantman received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. At present he is a professor and researcher at the Doctoral Program of the Facultad de Ciencias Econ micas, Universidad de Buenos Aires. His current research interests include structural adjustment and undervelopment in Latin America and the historical evolution of organizational forms. Peter Grimes received his Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 1996, and has been researching, teaching, and writing about social evolution and the environment for twenty years.