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What should be the role of academia & intellectuals in the global justice movement? The author investigates "critical globalization studies"-previously critical development studies-to argue that despite the neoliberal There Is No Alternative (TINA) doctrine, academics are all part of the vast mutual liberation society. The author recalls her early critical development studies works How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger (1976) in which she identified the gap in research and analysis that was due to subservience to a dominant ideology that did not have the categories & concepts needed for dealing with the "real reasons". The pressures & constraints on academics that relate to job security place progressive in to the role of taking a vow of poverty or academia. Kuhn's explanation of the reigning paradigm of the hard sciences is related to the fact that progressive foundations would fund "projects" versus the "right wing Gramscians" who believed in the power idea of ideas & cultural hegemony. The science of economics is asserted to be concerned with matters of life and death yet provides no mechanism or methods which oblige power of economic institutions to recognize policy failure. Economics practiced by major global institutions is not concerned with human needs, placing the global justice movement & critical intellectuals in the role of studying the rich and powerful, using methodology to yield fresh perspectives, & attaining a higher level of rigor because, as intellectuals work to treat others, others are also working to free intellectuals. References. J. Harwell