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Stephen Hill Linkography: Deutschland

Amazing Germany - Declining Unemployment - How Do They Do It?

Blog: How's Europe Doing – posted 13 Nov 2010 - The Washington Monthly. In Germany, manufacturing still dominates finance. German capitalism didn’t succumb to the financialization that swept the United States and Britain in the 1980s’ - though Germany’s banks and financial sector did get snared in the Wall Street web.

Don't Scorn Germany and Japan; Learn From Them
Article: 29 July 2010 - Los Angeles Times. The global marketplace has become tumultuous, so when we find a bright spot, one would think it deserves a mention: Germany and Japan! Japan's economy has been and remains successful. So is Germany's. They have reached an economic steady state in which they don't need roaring growth rates to provide for their people. But for the economic Cassandras, apparently it doesn't matter if people's needs are being met; what matters is whether their theories and equations balance.

Germany Leads Europe's Wind and Solar
Energy Revolution
Article: 28 October 2008 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine.

While Bush and other world leaders pitted the environment and energy innovation against the economy and loss of jobs, Europe has discovered that greater energy efficiency actually is good for their economy and businesses. Their efforts led to the rise of new technologies, industries and created tens of thousands of jobs.

Angela Merkel is Getting it Right
Article: 04 October 2010 - IP Global (German Council on Foreign Relations). Chancellor Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy proposed sweeping financial regulatory changes. They warned the Obama administration not to block their attempts to crack down on hedge funds and derivatives, corrupt rating agencies, outrageous bank bonuses and more. Would US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have dithered even more had he not been pushed – shoved, by the Europeans, led by Merkel?

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Expert Advice

Shorting Economists: The 'Experts' Keep Getting it Wrong
Article: August 19, 2010 - Truthdig. Throughout the 1990s and during the 2000s more voodoo economists likened Europe's economy to that of a "sick, sclerotic old man," until it was discovered that Europe had surpassed the U.S., creating more jobs, higher per capita growth and higher productivity. It is important that we find better measuring sticks and employ saner values for assessing what a successful economy looks like. Until then, we are flying in uncharted territory, without radar and surrounded by fog. Heaven help us!!

Austerity vs. Stimulus: Who’s Right?
Article: November 24, 2010 - Social Europe Journal. To paraphrase Denmark’s Prince Hamlet, ‘To enact austerity or not to enact austerity, that is the question.’ Unfortunately, dear Hamlet, that is a question without a sure answer. The truth is, none of the experts know what is the correct thing to do. Trichet, Bernanke, Geithner, Schäuble, Krugman, Stiglitz, Wolf, Münchau, Soros, all of them.

Japan and Germany, Often Dismissed By US Economists, See Sustainable Growth and Less Unemployment
Article Posted: 22 December 2010 – New America Media. Also posted as: Reconsidering Japan, Reconsidering Paul Krugman, 19 November 2010 – Industry News.

Throughout the 1990s, and still today, Krugman has skewered Japan’s economy, its economists and its leaders.
This criticism of Japan raises the important question: What is an economy for? To produce the prosperity, security and services that people need? Or to satisfy the theories and models of economists?

President-Elect Obama's Stimulus Plan Is Only
Half a Loaf
Article: Friday 16 January 2009 – Truthout. In announcing his economic stimulus plan, Obama unveiled some badly needed measures, including rebuilding of roads, bridges and schools and increased renewable energy production. But his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan misses an opportunity to more directly invest in the greatest "infrastructure" of all - the American people.

Economic Democracy and Codetermination: Harnessing the Capitalist Engine
Book review: Posted 15 January 2010 - the Globalist (daily online magazine on the global economy, politics and culture).

In the aftermath of the economic crisis, the United States needs a new economic model — one that will decentralize power and put it in the hands of the workers. European advances in a distinct brand of 'social capitalism' are perhaps the most important innovations in the world economy since the invention of the modern corporation itself.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Worldview - China

China’s Political Development at a Crossroad.
Article: 25 May 2012 - China-US Focus. This past year has been the worst of times and the best of times for China’s political development. Less than a year before China’s decennial transfer of power among its top leadership, that elite world was rattled by a disturbing episode of scandal, corruption and political murder in one of China’s largest cities.

My Lunch at the European Commission: ‘Why is Europe Losing the Public Relations Battle to China?'
Article: 22 December 2010 – Social Europe. Hill explains that the media fall back on lazy journalism and inadequate research methodologies casting America as the existing superpower and China as the up-and-coming superpower even though Europe is vastly superior in just about every way we count these things when compared to China. He points out that Europe is losing the public relations battle to China because the EU hasn’t created its own public relations apparatus to help explain the importance of Europe to the world.

The China Superpower Hoax
Article: 23 September 2010 published on Truthdig AlterNet. China must have the best public relations maestros in the world. How else would a country with a lower per capita income than Iran, Mexico and Kazakhstan, one of the worst environmental records of any major nation, endemic corruption, jails stuffed with dissenters, and a dictatorship, besides, be hailed by so many as the next global superpower?

China's Robber-Baron Ways
Article: 23 September 2008 - New York Times. In its march to modernity, Beijing's ruling Communist Party took off the economic shackles of the Mao years and relaunched the country as a capitalist-communist state - a real oddball coupling, if ever there was one. Part of this process involved the radical devolution of economic power to over 30 provinces, fostering a kind of anarchic federalism.

China and the Long Road Ahead
Posted: 6 September 2008 - World Policy Blog. During the Olympics, China showed the world that it can throw a heck of a coming out party. But traveling here afterward, one sees the many complexities and challenges facing this vast and ancient land.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: World Output

ICANN: the Secret Government of the Internet?
Article: April, 2001 - Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Also posted at: In These Times, 15 May 2000. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a little-known international body that oversees crucial Internet functions. Depending on whose description you read, it is either an innocuous non-profit with a narrow technical mandate, or the first step in corralling the Internet for commercial and other purposes. Despite the centrality of it's role in the online world, there has been almost no media coverage of ICANN. The question of who should control this new form of global communication requires an answer.

WTO Dissent In the Streets, Instead Of In the Legislature?
Article: 26 April 2000 - Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. As the clouds of tear gas dispersed over the streets of Seattle, one couldn't help but wonder where all this dissent over the World Trade Organization came from. Certainly in booming economic times we have not heard much vocal opposition in our state and federal legislatures.

WTO Problems Underscores Need
for U.S. Labor Party

Article: 12 December 1999 - Albion Monitor. No matter which political party has been at the helm, Democrats or Republicans, the U.S. government and corporations have been the world's primary boosters for the World Trade Organization and globalization. Unfortunately, the heat of debate usually has reduced the complexities of the issue to simplistic slogans and sound bites.

An Antidote to GATT: Stakeholders vs. Stockholders
Article: 2000, in Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Also posted at: The Humanist, March-April, 1995. With NAFTA behind us and GATT in front of us, it's a sane response for working people to start feeling surrounded. There seems to be little to stop these steamrollers from running us over, as the workers of the world prepare to unite finally -- in the unemployment line. But, Hill points out, there are stubborn pockets of resistance to free trade that have sprung up over the last few years.

Stakeholders vs. Stockholders
Article: 2000, in Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Hill looks at the enduring legacy of the Pennsylvania law that protects the rights of stakeholders, as opposed to the rights of the stockholders with respect to corporate-community relations. States and communities seeking new strategies to cope with job losses and corporate disinvestment associated with global free trade would do well to understand the opportunities provided by a legal framework solidifying stakeholder rights.

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