Tony Smith has taught philosophy and political science at Iowa State University since 1980 and has been involved with
the Radical Philosophers Association, Union of Radical Political Economists, Conference of Socialist Economists, and
Philosophers for Social Responsibility, among others. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Iowa Policy
Project, a non-profit and non-partisan organization for the production and dissemination of research on significant
public policy issues in Iowa. He has written four books, including The Logic of Marx's Capital (1990) and
Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production (2000). His research interests include a critical comparison
between Marxian and competing accounts of globalization and the development of a systematic reconstruction of the
globalization debate. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.