THE STORY BEHIND THE SUIT
In 2017 I visited China where my book From Keynes to Piketty had been translated into Chinese. Gaosheng Wealth Holding Group had decided to give their 3500 clients each a copy. Gaosheng invited me to give lectures in four cities. In Dalian I was given the tailor-made suit which you see on the photo by one of Gaosheng’s clients. Trand tailors happens to be the tailor of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and of other famous people such as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Needless to say that I was very proud to be another but not-so-famous wearer of Trands top-quality suits.
Economist & Author
Peter de Haan was born on 9 September 1946 in Den Helder, the Netherlands. After having completed secondary school, he studied macroecomics and development economics at Amsterdam University where he got his Master degree in 1972. He devoted his entire professional career to development cooperation, starting with a two-year’s posting at UNDP’s Regional Office in Suva, Fiji, followed by more than a decade at NOVIB, a Dutch non-governmental funding agency, where he led the Asia Bureau. In this capacity he visited most Asian countries. In 1985 he formed part of the first NGO delegation to visit China on the invitation of the Chinese government to identify fundable projects.
After a few years as Director Europe of Inter Press Service, a Third World News Agency, de Haan joined the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There he formulated the Ministry’s institutional development policy while advising staff at various Embassies on project formulation, implementation, and evaluation. During the last eleven years of his career, de Haan was posted at the Netherlands Embassy in la Paz, Bolivia, followed by his posting in Lusaka, Zambia.
Throughout his career he wrote columns,essays, and books on development and economic history.
Books
Fiji
Published by The Royal Tropical Institute
Amsterdam, 1978.
Development in Hindsight; the Economics of Common Sense
KIT Publishers
Amsterdam, 2006. *
Has Africa Shed its 'Third World' Status? And Other Thought-Provoking Essays
Lembani Trust
Lusaka, 2010.
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Eva Tas Foundation, Pixel Perfect Publications
Amsterdam, 2016.
From Keynes to Piketty; the Century that Shook up Economics
Palgrave macmillan
London, 2016 **
Whatever Happened to the 'Third World'? A History of the Economics of Development
Palgrave macmillan, London, 2020.
* The Spanish translation was published by Plural, la Paz, Bolivia, 2006
** The Chinese translation was published by Xinhua publishers, Beijing, 2017.
Columns
2020
Will the world have two or three superpowers in the future? August 2020
Global debt. July 2020
Europe’s and China’s response to the outbreak of covid-19. June 2020
The covid-19. Aftermath and Europe. May 2020
Why invest in poor countries? April 2020
Beyond covid-19 March 2020
The philosophy of economics. February 2020
Are economic policy instruments obsolete? January 2020
China; Internationaal financier, (NL). June 2020
2019
Will economic history repeat itself? December 2019
Poor economics and the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics. October 2019
2018
Economists and leisure. December 2018
Doughnut economics. February 2018
Board Positions
Treasurer of the Eva Tas Foundation, 2018-2020.
Chairman of the International Social Housing Guarantee Foundation, 1990-2000.
Board member of Tool Foundation, 1992-1994.
Membership
The Royal Netherlands Society of Economics
The Bolivian Academy of Economic Sciences (Academia Boliviana de Sciencias Economicas)
Economics Association of Zambia
Other
Producer and Presenter American Jazz Radio Programme, 2006 -2012. Lusaka, Zambia.