The author is currently a professor in School of Economics and Trade at Kyungpook National University. He graduated from the Economics Department of Seoul National University, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from the Seoul National University Graduate School. He studied and lectured as a visiting professor at Paris 13 University in France, Fudan University in China, and Kyoto University in Japan. He served as the president of the Korean Association for Political Economy, the research director at the Taegu Institute of Social Studies, the first chairman of the Decentralization Movement for Sustainable Korea, the chair of the Faculty Council at Kyungpook National University, and a member of the Presidential Committee for Balanced National Development, and is currently an editor of the “International Critical Thought” and the president of the Good Policy Forum.