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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: Survival

Greece: Epicenter of the Debt Earthquake?
Posted: 27 November 2010 - La Progressive. Also posted at: How's Europe Doing - The Washington Monthly, 25 November 2010. Unlike the other countries I have visited where “the fear of the crisis has turned out to be worse than the crisis itself” (as one commentator told me), in Greece the impact of the economic crisis has hit like a small tsunami. My colleagues in Athens talk about declines in service, in the quality of health care and other dents in the Greek system that they are experiencing.

Despite the Crisis, Europe Is the Model for the World

Interview in Czech: 23 February 2011 - Lidove Noviny. Czech title : Evropa je i přes krizi pro svět vzorem – 23 února 2011, Lidove Noviny. (Use Google translator). In this exclusive Q&A interview with the prominent Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny, Hill is questioned primarily about his book, the economic policies of the EU, the Euro crisis, prospects for the future of an integrated Europe and more. See also>>

The Greek aftershock - Will it make or break Europe?
Article: February 19, 2010 – Social Europe Journal. After the earthquake come the aftershocks. That is a law of geophysics, and now apparently of economics. Well over a year ago, the world economy suffered a massive economic quake of 8.0 on the Richter scale. Since then different countries have been experiencing a number of aftershocks.

Steven Hill re Europe’s Promise: Q&A
Interview aired (audio): 30 May 2010 - A Terrence McNally Podcast.

The European Union, 27 member nations with a half billion people, has become the largest, wealthiest trading bloc in the world. Americans are hearing a lot about the trouble Europe is in. The debt crisis in Greece, and perhaps Spain, Portugal, and Italy, is threatening the Euro and the European Union. What's really going on? How did it happen? How bad is it? How will they deal with it? And what does it mean for the rest of the world and for the US in particular? These are the questions Hill takes on during this lengthy Q&A interview.

Europe and its Revolution - Part 1
Posted in Italian: 30 November 2010 - Europe and its revolution By Francesca Cannino. (Italian original: L’Europa e la sua rivoluzione 1/2, 30 Novembre 2010 – Gli Euros, Par Francesca Cannino (traduttrice) .
Europe and its Revolution - Part 2
Posted in Italian: 13 December 2010 - Europe and its revolution By Francesca Cannino. (Italian original: L’Europa e la sua rivoluzione 2/2, 30 Novembre 2010 – Gli Euros, Par Francesca Cannino (traduttrice) Use Google translator). There is no doubt that Europe can sometimes appear in disarray reeling from one apparent crisis to another. It is facing challenges that seem impossible… Yet in the end, it always gets the job done as is characteristic in a united Europe for the last 60 years.

The Silver Lining of the Greek Debt Crisis
Posted April 7, 2010 - Huffington Post. Greece's debt situation has pundits taking out their crystal balls trying to divine the future not only of Greece, but also the euro and Europe. Every news outlet from the New York Times to National Public Radio has joined the chorus of gloom and doom.

Author Steven Hill on Greece’s debt and the euro
Panel discussion (audio): 15 February 2010 on the BBC World Newshour. Presenter James Menendez discusses Greece’s debt crisis with a panel that includes Steven Hill and Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, the Italian politician who died a few months after this interview. He was one of the architects of the single European currency.

Steven Hill and Europe's Promise: AICGS Podcasts

Podcast interview (audio): 27 May 2010 - Dr. Jackson Janes, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. Steven Hill and Dr. Janes discuss Hill's book and examine the question: Is Europe too big to fail? They also discuss Europe's ability to weather the Greek crisis, and whether or not Europe has the necessary leaders at the national and European levels to push it into the future.

Dave Ross Show interview with Steven Hill
Talk radio interview (audio): 15 March 2010 - KIRO-AM 710 in Seattle with host Dave Ross. While the effects of the global financial crisis continue to be felt worldwide Hill discusses how Europe has managed to weather the storm better than the US.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Social Capitalism

Europe's Answer To Wall Street
Article: April 21, 2010 - the Nation. Many European countries have the right institutions to facilitate both a powerful economic engine and the supportive institutions and benefits to harness that engine. Co-determination is one of them. It gives workers in Europe the advantage of electing worker directors that sit side by side as equal decision-makers with stockholder representatives, and supervising management. This is a little-known yet unprecedented extension of democratic principle into the corporate sphere.

Economic Democracy and Codetermination: Harnessing the Capitalist Engine
Book review: Posted Friday, 15 January 2010, on 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. As Steven Hill suggests in this excerpt from his book, Europe's Promise, the United States might have a lesson to learn from post-World War II Germany.

Merry Christmas, From the Government To the Workers -- In France, That Is
Article: 2000, in Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement.

Just a few days before Christmas in 1999, the French government passed a law that was a welcome gift to their workers -- they shortened the legal workweek from 39 hours
to 35. This follows a European trend, where Swedish, German, Italian and soon Belgian and Spanish workers will have seen reductions in their workweek.

The World Cup of Global Competition
Article: July 1998 - Hartford Web Publishing: World History Archives. Steven Hill is in Paris during the 1998 World Cup of soccer hosted in France. Watching Europeans of numerous nationalities patriotically cheering their home teams, he reflects on the remaining barriers to the European Union. Some Europeans are looking westward toward the American model, marked by low unemployment of 4-5%, market and labor flexibility, low deficits and increased worker productivity. However, important distinctions should be noted about U.S. practices.

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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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