Linkagogo Archive 1: Economic Development

Next Steps For Social Democracy: An American Perspective
Article: 16 December 2009 - Social Europe Journal. This article was published as part of the "Building the Good Society" debate hosted by Social Europe Journal. In Hill's opinion, the predicament of social democracy strikes at the heart of several modern dilemmas that will be at the forefront of the twenty-first century. Given the many obstacles and challenges presented by globalisation, global warming and geopolitical shifts, he believes that social democrats have made remarkable gains and are providing a beacon to the rest of the world.

Steven Hill on Europe’s Promise
Video: Book talk: 21 January 2010 - held at the New America Foundation. Also posted with title: What the U.S. (Even California) Can Learn from Europe
The author discusses his new book and explains Europe's bold new vision. For a decade Hill travelled widely to understand this uniquely European way of life. He shatters myths and describes how Europe's leadership is rooted in different economic, social and cultural values. Hill points out that the European model has the greatest potential to nudge the world forward.

San Francisco Mayoral Race Mobilizes Opposition
to Globalization
Article: 2000 - Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. San Francisco, a busy commercial and Internet center riding the crest of nearby Silicon Valley, is the poster city for the globalized economy. Local startups, IPOs and surging stock prices are the latest embodiment of the American Dream, dangling the bait before a wide-eyed generation. Interestingly enough, this electoral challenge came less than two weeks after thousands of protesters in Seattle delivered a shot across the bow of the WTO and its cruise ship, the USS Globalization.

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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: Globalization

Stephen Hill Linkography: Worldview - China