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Stephen Hill Linkography: Income & Spending

Author Steven Hill Compares the U.S. Tax System With Those of European Countries

Interview (audio): 13 April 2010, host Andrew Stelzer – National Radio Project. As part of the “Tax the Rich, Help Save America” program broadcasted by the NRP, listen to Hill describe in detail the difference in tax benefits and burdens in Europe and the US.

The Myth of Europe's High Taxes
Article: 23 February 2010 – On the Commons. So a thorough analysis would need to create a ledger in which all the supports and services Europeans and Americans receive are listed on one side and the amount of taxes and any additional out-of-pocket fees they pay are listed on the other. When you sum up the total balance sheet, it turns out that Americans pay out as much as Europeans – but we receive a lot less for our money.

The Myth Of The Overtaxed Europeans And Other Modern Fables
Blog: How's Europe Doing - posted 19 November 2010 - The Washington Monthly. Child care in the United States costs more than $12,000 annually for a family with two children. In some countries in Europe, child care is free. In others, they pay $1000-$2000 per year, depending on their income. So they are paying at most only one-sixth of what Americans are paying, and the quality is far superior.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Banks & Wall Street

Repost: Europe’s Promise & Wall Street gangsters
Book review: 28 December 2010 - Darwiniana. Posted in Critique of Evolutionary Economy by nemo. The American public is being exploited by economic pseudo-science, bad journalism, and the conspiracy of Wall Street gangsters, some of them on Obama’s sta3ff. It is a false ideology, totally out of control, and made worse by the way smart geekish types like Greenspan et al. promote it oblivious to reality. Hill’s book shows how the American system has gone astray, and how some form of social democracy can be successful.

Steven Hill: The insane prescription of the IMF
is repeated in Greece
In Greek - Press report of IPEDIS event held 18 October at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - posted 21 October 2010, Zoom News. (Greek reference: Παραφροσύνη η επανάληψη της συνταγής ΔΝΤ στην Ελλάδα , Δημ/ση 21 Οκτ. 2010 – Zoomnews.gr (Use Google translator). Hill argued against the IMF prescriptions for ailing Greek economy. GDP alone. He calls the American Model of Capitalism, know as Wall Street Capitalism, bankrupt because that model brought economic chaos and the crisis that plunged America into recession.

Media Speculators Miss History Being
Made In Europe
Article: October 19, 2010 - Social Europe Journal. Like financial speculators, the media likes to speculate in sensationalism and hype, dedicated to advancing their goals. Financial speculators do it to make gobs of money, and the media does it to grab eyeballs for their TV shows and newspapers. During the recent Greek debt crisis, both the financial and media speculators acted up.

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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: Globalization

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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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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