Joel Magnuson is author of Mindful Economics: How the US Economy Works, Why It Matters, and How It Could Be Different, published by Seven Stories Press, New York, 2008. He is currently a professor of economics in Portland, USA, specializing in non-orthodox approaches to political economy. He is also an active member of an international research group based in Europe that is working toward new philosophical foundations for economic theory and practice, and he is an international advisor to the editorial board of Interconnections published by Anglia Ruskin University.