Dr. habil. Annamária Artner, CSc., is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Institute of World Economics and college professor at the King Sigismund University Budapest. Her main study fields in the last decades have been the consequences of capital accumulation, causes of crises, global labour market, employment policies, social impacts of globalization, globalization-critical movements, competitiveness at macro- and micro levels, problems of the development of different countries of the European Union with special regard to Ireland and Greece, crisis management in different regions and countries, outward foreign direct investment and labour market of China.