Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge Chapters University of Zambia Faculty Bas de Gaay Fortman Tawia Modibo Ocran John L Helgerson Elagu V Elaguppillai Roger Tangri J Clyde Mitchell Inonge Mbikusita Lewanika Robert Serpell Excerpt Bastiaan Bas de Gaay Fortman born November 6 1937 the Hague is a Dutch politician and scholar He has been a member of both the Dutch House of Representatives and the Senate for the PPR and GroenLinks parties He currently holds the world s only chair in Political Economy of Human Rights at the University of Utrecht After attending public elementary education he attended the Christian Gymnasium in the Hague specialising in sciences After graduating in 1956 he studied law and economy at the Free University of Amsterdam receiving his Master of Law and Doctorandus in Economy in 1963 cum laude In the last four years of his study he taugh Civil Law Commercial Law and Political Economy Following graduation he became a fellow at the Social Faculty of the Free University and wrote his dissertation in Economics During this period he taught macro and micro economic theory In 1966 he received his Ph D in Economy for his disseration Theory of competition policy In 1967 De Gaay Fortman left Amsterdam to become a senior lector at the University of Zambia in Lusaka where he was head of the Economic faculty Here he taught Economics of Rural Development and Theory of the Economic Order In 1968 he was appointed Chairman of the Agricultural Prices and Marketing Committee an advisory Body of the Zambian government He wrote two books about his residence in Zambia After Mulunguhsi the economics of Zambian Humanism in 1967 and The Third World in Movement a message from Zambia in 1972 While in Zambia De Gaay Fortman kept close tabs o More http booksllc net id 3650167