Herman Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herman Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herman |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5571-3644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 441 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Strong Intellectual Property and Weak Antitrust: How the End of Vertical Restraints Fissured the US Political Economy
What explains rising inequality after 1980? Explanations describing immediate causes, like skill-biased technological change, financialization, or globalization, assign causality to homogenous market forces and largely focus on distributional struggles between capital and labor. They thus ignore how distributional struggles among firms drove changes to industrial organization that are upstream of those explanations. We show how public and private…
Intellectual property, technorents and the labour share of production
How does the capture of explicit monopoly rent via intellectual property rights interact with the capture of additional profit via monopsonistic labour markets, and with what consequences? Most analyses of changes in the labour market focus on the distributional struggle between capital and labour over the wage share. This paper examines how the distributional struggle among firms over shares of aggregate profit has affected the labour market, ge…
Global secular stagnation and the rise of intellectual property monopoly
Explanations for slow global growth (secular stagnation) correctly focus on income inequality and wage formation but are incomplete. They ignore the source of wages and fail to ask why a rising profit share has not produced more investment. Older but essential insights on stagnation from Keynes, Schumpeter and Veblen complement orthodox and post-Keynesian analyses to generate a more robust explanation based on the distributional conflict over pro…
The European Union, the United States, and Trade: Metaphorical Climate Change, Not Bad Weather
US and EU trade relations exhibit a set of chronic and secularly unsustainable imbalances, in which new Schumpeterian leading sectors and catch-up growth create growing tension in the asymmetrical and somewhat hierarchical US–EU relationship. These imbalances exhibit two distinct cycles interrupted by a clear structural break in the 1970s and an emerging cycle after the 2008–2010 crises. Each cycle has seen rising US current account or trade defi…
American hegemony: Intellectual property rights, dollar centrality, and infrastructural power
How does dollar centrality persist in the face of continuous US current account deficits and a steadily worsening net international investment position? Two mechanisms create a structural basis for dollar centrality, explaining how dollars enter global credit markets and why surplus countries continue to hold dollar-denominated assets. First, institutional structures deriving from late development suppress domestic demand in major current account…
What’s wealth got to do with it? Global balance sheets and US geo-economic power
Does the ever-increasing stock of cross-border asset holdings pose a threat to macro-economic stability and to US geo-economic power? Recent analyses suggest that exchange rate changes might drive massive changes in net asset positions that in turn create equally large wealth effects. These wealth effects might compromise US macro-economic policy. In contrast, this manuscript argues that these fears are misplaced. Income flows are the dog that wa…
Covering the private parts: The (Re-)Nationalisation of Housing Finance
Is state power or control over financial markets really withering? Most narratives/analyses of financialisation see a growing penetration of private capital into everyday life that runs parallel to the increasing power of private financial capital over state policy. Yet housing finance – mortgages – sits at the centre of banking, and banking sits at the centre of the financial system. Large-scale mortgage markets only function where the state wra…
Thinking about Thinking about Comparative Political Economy: From Macro to Micro and Back
How and why did comparative political economy (CPE) lose sight of the sources of growing macroeconomic and political instability, a problem that encompassed a growing financial bubble and then a crash in the housing market, a period of sluggish growth that plausibly constitutes secular stagnation, and a crisis of political legitimacy manifesting itself in the rise of antisystem 'populist' parties? A gradual shift in CPE's research agenda from mac…
Much Ventured, Much Gained: The US Innovation State
One of the enduring shibboleths of the industrial policy and the developmental state literatures that started in the 1970s is that the US state is “weak,” which literature parsed as “unable to effectively organize actors in the economy around a progressive policy of industrial up-grading and global competitiveness.” Even today, the US state’s role in the economy is backgrounded in the Varieties of Capitalism (Hall and Soskice 2001) literature, wh…
Elites and American structural power in the global economy
The political economy of currency internationalisation: The case of the RMB
The rise of China has sparked a debate about the economic and political consequences for the global economy of the internationalisation of the renminbi. We argue that the dominant focus of this literature – primarily the external conditions and requirements for a national currency to become an international currency – misspecifies the connections between the international and domestic requirements for currency internationalisation, as well as the…
Houses on Fire: Three views on the Great Crash of 2008
No Exit: Social Reproduction in an Era of Rising Income Inequality
What explains the unexpected, uneven, but unquestionably pervasive trend toward re-familialization in the rich OECD countries? The usual arguments about political responses to rising income inequality, unstable families, and unstable employment predicted that the state would increasingly shelter people against risk, producing greater individuation and de- rather than re-familialization. By contrast, we argue three things. First, re-familializatio…
Wealth and Secular Stagnation: The Role of Industrial Organization and Intellectual Property Rights
Herman Mark Schwartz, Wealth and Secular Stagnation: The Role of Industrial Organization and Intellectual Property Rights, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 6, Wealth Inequality: Economic and Social Dimensions (October 2016), pp. 226-249
The future of the euro
Legacies of Empire: Imperial Roots of the Contemporary Global Order
The nation-state is a fairly recent historical phenomenon. Human history over the past two to four millennia has been dominated by empires, and the legacies of these empires continues to shape the contemporary world in ways that are not always recognised or fully understood. Much research and writing about European colonial empires has focused on relations between them and their colonies. This book examines the phenomenon of empire from a differe…
Banking on the FED: QE1-2-3 and the Rebalancing of the Global Economy
Growing income inequality in most countries in the 1990s and 2000s led to a global shortfall between supply and demand. The US economy bridged this shortfall domestically and globally by blowing successive equity market and housing bubbles, but these produced ever more severe financial crises. Rebalancing after the 2008 crisis required trade surplus countries to expand their non-traded sectors, but rebalancing is never immaculate. Instead, the Fe…
The political economy of failure: The euro as an international currency
How do international currencies get established and consolidated? What domestic and international political foundations support an international currency? And what kinds of macro-economic flows enable an international currency? In this essay we consider these perennial questions of modern IPE scholarship in reverse order to ask whether the euro could ever have become, or seek to become, a true international currency rivalling the US dollar, used …
Power House: The Struggle over Mortgage Finance
The real estate and mortgage finance (REMF) industry has considerable political power. This power stems from its use of targeted campaign contributions and lobbying efforts, and manifests itself as politically structured markets that extract rents from consumers. REMF has used this power not just to structure markets in its favor, but also to escape the normal regulatory limits on criminal and quasi-criminal behavior. Consumers and regulators ali…
Political Capitalism and the Rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Sovereign wealth funds are neither novel nor constitute any decisive shift towards state control. States and markets are co-constitutive, but states have power precisely because of their ability to define property rights and thus draw the boundary between public and private activity. The way they draw that boundary determines the nature of capitalism in any specific market. ‘Sovereign wealth fund’ is a nominal label covering three distinct types …
Euro-crisis, American lessons
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Housing, the Welfare State, and the Global Financial Crisis: What is the Connection
Analyses of the global financial crisis that assign causality to the erosion of parts of the welfare state that protected individuals miss the importance of macro level regulation that protected firms and the financial system from itself. Post-Depression macro level regulation of finance prevented the emergence of mismatched maturities where deposits lacked state guarantees, and thus prevented runs on banks or near-banks. A balance sheet approach…
Iceland's Financial Iceberg: Why Leveraging Up is a Titanic Mistake without a Reserve Currency
Iceland's boom and bust replicate in miniature the causes, development and trajectory of the absolutely larger but proportionately smaller American boom and bust, except for Iceland's costly lack of a reserve currency and its banks’ preference not just for speculating in but also overpaying for shaky assets. In the aggregate, both the US and Icelandic economies sold short-term, passive, and liquid assets to the world, consumed part of that borrow…
Small States in the Rear-View Mirror: Legitimacy in the Management of Economy and Society
Small States in World Markets is about political efficacy and legitimation rather than scoring who is ahead in the economic sweepstakes. Its case for democratic corporatism rests on norms, particularly stability, rather than on narrow measures of economic efficiency. But stability, and the efficacious management of the economy and social problems requires a degree of technocracy that undermines the legitimacy of the management process itself by h…
Iceland in the Kreppa: Leveraging, Corruption, and the Power of Finance
Varieties of Residential Capitalism in the International Political Economy: Old Welfare States and the New Politics of Housing
Small States in Big Trouble: State Reorganization in Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden in the 1980s
In Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden in the 1980s, coalitions of politicians, fiscal bureaucrats, and capital and labor in sectors exposed to international competition allied to transform the largest single nontradables sector in their society: the state, particularly the welfare state. They exposed state personnel and agencies to market pressures and competition to reduce the cost of welfare and other state services. The impetus for ch…
Housing, the Welfare State, and the Global Financial Crisis: What is the Connection
Analyses of the global financial crisis that assign causality to the erosion of parts of the welfare state that protected individuals miss the importance of macro level regulation that protected firms and the financial system from itself. Post-Depression macro level regulation of finance prevented the emergence of mismatched maturities where deposits lacked state guarantees, and thus prevented runs on banks or near-banks. A balance sheet approach…
No Exit: Social Reproduction in an Era of Rising Income Inequality
What explains the unexpected, uneven, but unquestionably pervasive trend toward re-familialization in the rich OECD countries? The usual arguments about political responses to rising income inequality, unstable families, and unstable employment predicted that the state would increasingly shelter people against risk, producing greater individuation and de- rather than re-familialization. By contrast, we argue three things. First, re-familializatio…
The Danish “Miracle: Luck, Pluck, or Stuck
The 1980s and 1990s saw employment “miracles” in Denmark, Australia, and the Netherlands. This article analyzes the dynamics and substance of Danish policy responses to poor export, employment, and fiscal performance to see whether remediation should be attributed to pluck (intentional, strategic remediation of dysfunctional institutions to make them conform with the external environment), luck (environmental change that makes formerly dysfunctio…
American hegemony: Intellectual property rights, dollar centrality, and infrastructural power
How does dollar centrality persist in the face of continuous US current account deficits and a steadily worsening net international investment position? Two mechanisms create a structural basis for dollar centrality, explaining how dollars enter global credit markets and why surplus countries continue to hold dollar-denominated assets. First, institutional structures deriving from late development suppress domestic demand in major current account…
The political economy of failure: The euro as an international currency
How do international currencies get established and consolidated? What domestic and international political foundations support an international currency? And what kinds of macro-economic flows enable an international currency? In this essay we consider these perennial questions of modern IPE scholarship in reverse order to ask whether the euro could ever have become, or seek to become, a true international currency rivalling the US dollar, used …
The Struggle for Constitutional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
In the former Eastern Bloc countries, one of the most important, and most difficult, aspects of the transition to democracy has been the establishment of constitutional justice and the rule of law. Herman Schwartz's wide-ranging book is the first to chronicle and analyze the rise of constitutional courts in this changing region. Beginning with a brief history of the courts prior to 1989, Schwartz draws on his expertise as a constitutional scholar…
Thinking about Thinking about Comparative Political Economy: From Macro to Micro and Back
How and why did comparative political economy (CPE) lose sight of the sources of growing macroeconomic and political instability, a problem that encompassed a growing financial bubble and then a crash in the housing market, a period of sluggish growth that plausibly constitutes secular stagnation, and a crisis of political legitimacy manifesting itself in the rise of antisystem 'populist' parties? A gradual shift in CPE's research agenda from mac…
Housing, Global Finance, and American Hegemony: Building Conservative Politics One Brick at a Time
Public Choice Theory and Public Choices: Bureaucrats and State Reorganization in Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden in the 1980s
Reorganizers of the state in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, and Sweden during the 1980s tried to separate policy-making from the production of welfare and other services by introducing market disciplines and competition. Fiscal bureaucrats, afraid of rising fiscal deficits and public debt, sought to control what they saw as rent-seeking behavior and agent abuse of principals in the public sector They argued these changes would reduce incentives…
Social Democracy Going Down or Down Under: Institutions, Internationalized Capital, and Indebted States
political power after World War II: internationally immobile capital in the goods producing sector of the economy and a state with sufficient revenue flows to provide a high social wage. In the 1970s and 1980s both these preconditions of successful social compacts over wages and investment and of welfare and incomes policy eroded. Both financial and productive capital internationalized rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s. International bond placements…
Eastern Europe's Constitutional Courts
Eastern Europe's Constitutional Courts Herman Schwartz (bio) It is rare that a new political institution performs beyond expectations, especially when one of its main tasks is to hold accountable rulers who have power and seek more of it. Yet among such remarkable successes one must count the performance over the last decade of the new constitutional courts of Eastern Europe. Since the Second World War, the nations quickest to establish constitut…
Covering the private parts: The (Re-)Nationalisation of Housing Finance
Is state power or control over financial markets really withering? Most narratives/analyses of financialisation see a growing penetration of private capital into everyday life that runs parallel to the increasing power of private financial capital over state policy. Yet housing finance – mortgages – sits at the centre of banking, and banking sits at the centre of the financial system. Large-scale mortgage markets only function where the state wra…
Can orthodox stabilization and adjustment work? Lessons from New Zealand, 1984–90
Most debate about the efficacy of orthodox stabilization programs, such as those of the International Monetary Fund, has been fruitless. First, rarely are these programs fully implemented or sustained for long periods. Second, defenders and critics of the programs hold differing premises about the nature of capitalist economies. The debate is therefore not about the appropriate balance of supply-and demand-side measures but, rather, about what so…
Banking on the FED: QE1-2-3 and the Rebalancing of the Global Economy
Growing income inequality in most countries in the 1990s and 2000s led to a global shortfall between supply and demand. The US economy bridged this shortfall domestically and globally by blowing successive equity market and housing bubbles, but these produced ever more severe financial crises. Rebalancing after the 2008 crisis required trade surplus countries to expand their non-traded sectors, but rebalancing is never immaculate. Instead, the Fe…
Elites and American structural power in the global economy
The political economy of currency internationalisation: The case of the RMB
The rise of China has sparked a debate about the economic and political consequences for the global economy of the internationalisation of the renminbi. We argue that the dominant focus of this literature – primarily the external conditions and requirements for a national currency to become an international currency – misspecifies the connections between the international and domestic requirements for currency internationalisation, as well as the…
Iceland's Financial Iceberg: Why Leveraging Up is a Titanic Mistake without a Reserve Currency
Iceland's boom and bust replicate in miniature the causes, development and trajectory of the absolutely larger but proportionately smaller American boom and bust, except for Iceland's costly lack of a reserve currency and its banks’ preference not just for speculating in but also overpaying for shaky assets. In the aggregate, both the US and Icelandic economies sold short-term, passive, and liquid assets to the world, consumed part of that borrow…
Dependency or Institutions? Economic Geography, Causal Mechanisms, and Logic in the Understanding of Development
The European Union, the United States, and Trade: Metaphorical Climate Change, Not Bad Weather
US and EU trade relations exhibit a set of chronic and secularly unsustainable imbalances, in which new Schumpeterian leading sectors and catch-up growth create growing tension in the asymmetrical and somewhat hierarchical US–EU relationship. These imbalances exhibit two distinct cycles interrupted by a clear structural break in the 1970s and an emerging cycle after the 2008–2010 crises. Each cycle has seen rising US current account or trade defi…
Political Capitalism and the Rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Sovereign wealth funds are neither novel nor constitute any decisive shift towards state control. States and markets are co-constitutive, but states have power precisely because of their ability to define property rights and thus draw the boundary between public and private activity. The way they draw that boundary determines the nature of capitalism in any specific market. ‘Sovereign wealth fund’ is a nominal label covering three distinct types …
Explaining Australian Economic Success: Good Policy or Good Luck
Australia and some European countries experienced economic “miracles” in the 1990s that reversed prior poor export, employment, and fiscal performance. The miracles might provide transferable lessons about economic governance if it were true that economic governance institutions are malleable, and that actors deliberately changed those institutions in ways that contributed to the miracles. This paper analyzes Australian policy responses to see wh…
The Supreme Court's Federalism: Fig Leaf for Conservatives
Throughout American history, states' rights have been used as a cover to hide less respectable interests such as race, class, religion, power, and money. Because reforms in racial justice and social equality have come primarily from the federal government as a result of the Civil War and the New Deal, states' rights have usually been used to promote conservative interests. Today's conservative Supreme Court majority, led by Chief Justice William …
Euro-crisis, American lessons
n Contains fulltext :\n 111607.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Wiretapping and Eavesdropping: Pros and Cons
Essay| July 01 1967 Wiretapping and Eavesdropping: Pros and Cons Herman Schwartz Herman Schwartz Professor of Law, School of Law, State University of New York at Buffalo Herman Schwartz is the author of The Wiretapping Problem Today, a 1965 American Civil Liberties Union report, and other publications on criminal law and civil rights. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1967) 53 (311): 31–37.…
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Prison Conditions in Turkey
Foreign Creditors and the Politics of Development in Australia and Argentina, 1880-1913
Most comparative studies of Australia and Argentina argue that the economic effects of concentrated landholding impede development, and that Australia's greater development is thus attributable to landholders' political defeat at labor's hands. In contrast, this paper argues first that Australian largeholders were primarily destroyed by their creditors, not labor; and second that Argentina and Australian landholders behaved like productive capita…
Can orthodox stabilization and adjustment work? Lessons from New Zealand, 1984–90
Most debate about the efficacy of orthodox stabilization programs, such as those of the International Monetary Fund, has been fruitless. First, rarely are these programs fully implemented or sustained for long periods. Second, defenders and critics of the programs hold differing premises about the nature of capitalist economies. The debate is therefore not about the appropriate balance of supply-and demand-side measures but, rather, about what so…
Public Choice Theory and Public Choices: Bureaucrats and State Reorganization in Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden in the 1980s
Reorganizers of the state in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, and Sweden during the 1980s tried to separate policy-making from the production of welfare and other services by introducing market disciplines and competition. Fiscal bureaucrats, afraid of rising fiscal deficits and public debt, sought to control what they saw as rent-seeking behavior and agent abuse of principals in the public sector They argued these changes would reduce incentives…
Small States in Big Trouble: State Reorganization in Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden in the 1980s
In Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden in the 1980s, coalitions of politicians, fiscal bureaucrats, and capital and labor in sectors exposed to international competition allied to transform the largest single nontradables sector in their society: the state, particularly the welfare state. They exposed state personnel and agencies to market pressures and competition to reduce the cost of welfare and other state services. The impetus for ch…
Debt Cycles in the World-Economy: Foreign Loans, Financial Crises, and Debt Settlements, 1820-1990.Christian Suter
Disintegration or Transformation: The Crisis of the State in Advanced Industrial Societies, Edited by Erik Jones and Patrick McCarthy
The Crisis of the State in Advanced Industrial Societies P.McCarthy & E.Jones - America's Federal Nation State: A Post-Imperial Crisis? D.P.Calleo - Craving Normality: The Japanese State After the Cold War M.J.Green - Italy: The Crisis of an Oligarchical State S.Fabbrini - A Crisis of the State? The French Case J.W.Friend - The Crisis of German Power D.Allin - Fin de Siecle Canada: The Federal Government in Retreat G.P.Marchildon - The Transforma…
Reinvention and retrenchment: Lessons from the application of the New Zealand model to Alberta, Canada
Is New Zealand a model for “reinventing” government and cutting spending? The government of Alberta, Canada, consciously replicated significant elements of the New Zealand model to attain fiscal balance and public sector reorganization, including the core element of restructuring institutions to change individual behavior. Despite broad similarities in policy content and outcome, differences in the specific content of policy and the politics of p…
Gatekeepers of Growth: The International Political Economy of Central Banking in Developing Countries
Eastern Europe's Constitutional Courts
Eastern Europe's Constitutional Courts Herman Schwartz (bio) It is rare that a new political institution performs beyond expectations, especially when one of its main tasks is to hold accountable rulers who have power and seek more of it. Yet among such remarkable successes one must count the performance over the last decade of the new constitutional courts of Eastern Europe. Since the Second World War, the nations quickest to establish constitut…
Social Democracy Going Down or Down Under: Institutions, Internationalized Capital, and Indebted States
political power after World War II: internationally immobile capital in the goods producing sector of the economy and a state with sufficient revenue flows to provide a high social wage. In the 1970s and 1980s both these preconditions of successful social compacts over wages and investment and of welfare and incomes policy eroded. Both financial and productive capital internationalized rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s. International bond placements…
The Self-Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies
Free Market Experiments in the Laboratory of Democracy: The Long Decade of Policy Reform in New Zealand those risks
Books reviewd in this essay: Christine Cheyne, Mike O’Brien and Michael Belgrave, Social Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Critical Introduction Brian Easton, The Commercialisation of New Zealand Paul Dalziel and Ralph Lattimore, The New Zealand Macroeconomy: A Briefing on the Reforms RC Mascarenhas, Government and the Economy in New Zealand Raymond Miller (ed.), New Zealand Politics in Transition Geoffrey Palmer and Michael Palmer, Bridled Power…
The Struggle for Constitutional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
In the former Eastern Bloc countries, one of the most important, and most difficult, aspects of the transition to democracy has been the establishment of constitutional justice and the rule of law. Herman Schwartz's wide-ranging book is the first to chronicle and analyze the rise of constitutional courts in this changing region. Beginning with a brief history of the courts prior to 1989, Schwartz draws on his expertise as a constitutional scholar…
Round Up the Usual Suspects!: Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Welfare State Change
The first of three chapters on the sources of pressure on contemporary national welfare states, all of which seek to show how examining the sources of strain carries implications for identifying who is likely to fight with whom over what; the authors of the three chapters are not of one mind on this issue. Schwartz, for whom social protection includes regulatory arrangements in sectors such as telecommunications and transportation, is most convin…
The Supreme Court's Federalism: Fig Leaf for Conservatives
Throughout American history, states' rights have been used as a cover to hide less respectable interests such as race, class, religion, power, and money. Because reforms in racial justice and social equality have come primarily from the federal government as a result of the Civil War and the New Deal, states' rights have usually been used to promote conservative interests. Today's conservative Supreme Court majority, led by Chief Justice William …
The Danish “Miracle: Luck, Pluck, or Stuck
The 1980s and 1990s saw employment “miracles” in Denmark, Australia, and the Netherlands. This article analyzes the dynamics and substance of Danish policy responses to poor export, employment, and fiscal performance to see whether remediation should be attributed to pluck (intentional, strategic remediation of dysfunctional institutions to make them conform with the external environment), luck (environmental change that makes formerly dysfunctio…
Remaking New Zealand and Australian Economic Policy: Ideas, Institutions and Policy Communities . Shaun Goldfinch
‘Economic rationalism’ in Canberra and Canada: Public sector reorganisation, politics, and power
Australian public sector institutions and public sector labour relations experienced intense change during the 1980s and 1990s. Proponents of restructuring sought to insert market‐like pressures into areas formerly governed by bureaucratic mechanisms. This reversed a trend towards continual growth in state provision of non‐market based social protection and social welfare, and continual growth in the public sector's share of the economy. The poli…
Globalization as an Enabling Force
Does the increased economic openness associated with globalization reduce the capacity of the state to manage the economy? The contributors to Linda Weiss's States in the Global Economy consistently answer this question with a fairly strong “no.” In the process, they point to the importance of domestic institutions as a critical—perhaps the critical—mediating variable in determining how states manage openness. Why do the contributors see domestic…
Employment 'Miracles': A Critical Comparison of the Dutch, Scandinavian, Swiss, Australian and Irish Cases Versus Germany and the US
Employment 'Miracles': A Critical Comparison of the Dutch, Scandinavian, Swiss, Australian and Irish Cases versus Germany and the US
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Globalization and the Politics of Pay: Policy Choices in the American States
Globalization and the Politics of Pay: Policy Choices in the American States. By Susan B. Hansen. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006. 248p. $24.95. During the past 50 years, U.S. trade negotiators have consistently tried to pry open global manufactured goods and services markets and to transform publicly regulated service sectors into contestable markets. Most analyses have focused on this strategy's effects on wages and work condi…
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