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Review Of "Rethinking Asia’S Economic Miracle: The Political Economy Of War, Prosperity And Crisis", Su-Mei Ooi
Review Of "Rethinking Asia’S Economic Miracle: The Political Economy Of War, Prosperity And Crisis", Su-Mei Ooi
Su-Mei Ooi
The article reviews the book Rethinking Asia’s Economic Miracle: The Political Economy of War, Prosperity and Crisis by Richard Stubbs.
Odd Couple: International Trade And Labor Standards In History. By Michael Huberman. New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. Xii, 237. $65.00, Cloth., Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Odd Couple: International Trade And Labor Standards In History. By Michael Huberman. New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. Xii, 237. $65.00, Cloth., Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
The years between 1870 and 1914 constituted a first episode of globalization, characterized by rising levels of international trade and robust economic growth. They were also, at least in Europe, the time when important elements of the welfare state—insurance against the risks of unemployment, sickness, industrial accidents, and old age—as well as labor protections—such as factory inspection and limits on the hours of work of women and children—were first introduced.
Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, And Civic Identity In Colonizing English America, 1580–1865. By Christopher Tomlins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. Xvi, 617. $115.00, Cloth; $36.99, Paper., Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
For proponents of institutional economics, laws are one of the humanly devised constraints that structure human interactions. Like other formal and informal constraints, they define the incentive structure of societies and economies. In Freedom Bound, Christopher Tomlins subtly shifts the emphasis, suggesting that we think of laws not simply as constraints but as a “technology” that provides “. . . a means by which designs, structures, institutions might be imagined, created, implemented, andimplanted” (p. 506). Viewed as technology, legal thought is both a tool enabling action and a constraint, channeling that action in specific directions.
Kansas In The Great Depression: Work Relief, The Dole, And Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. Columbia And London: University Of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. Xv, 316. $44.95., Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Kansas In The Great Depression: Work Relief, The Dole, And Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. Columbia And London: University Of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. Xv, 316. $44.95., Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
The provision of welfare in the United States was transformed in the 1930s as county-based relief efforts collapsed under the burden of massive and sustained unemployment. The system of federal-state partnership that emerged in its place developed less through systematic and conscious planning than as the accidental result of a process of trial and error driven by the interaction between federal government officials and their counterparts in the states. In Kansas in the Great Depression Peter Fearon offers a careful examination of how efforts to address the pressing needs of the unemployed evolved in one state, Kansas, over the course …
David Brian Robertson. Capital, Labor, And State: The Battle For American Labor Markets From The Civil War To The New Deal. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Pp. Xxii, 297. $22.95, Paper., Joshua L. Rosenbloom
David Brian Robertson. Capital, Labor, And State: The Battle For American Labor Markets From The Civil War To The New Deal. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Pp. Xxii, 297. $22.95, Paper., Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
American employers today enjoy considerably greater latitude in the labor market than do employers in other industrialized economies. Laws protecting unions are weaker, employers can more easily hire and fire workers, minimum-wage laws are less binding, the government plays a smaller role in managing the labor market through public employment offices, and work and unemployment insurance programs are smaller and less costly to employers in the United States than elsewhere. In this book David Brian Robertson, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, offers an explanation for the unique pattern of labor-market governance that has …
The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, And Economic Change In An American Metropolis. By Barry Bluestone And Mary Huff Stevenson, With Contributions From Michael Massagli, Philip Moss, And Chris Tilly. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000. Pp. Xiii, 461. $45.00., Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
The greater Boston area has experienced a remarkable economic resurgence in the last two decades. Beginning in the late nineteenth century the declining fortunes of its leading manufacturing industries—textiles and boots and shoes—contributed to a sustained economic slide that was not reversed until the early 1980s. By 1982 a Brookings Institution study citing high and rising unemployment, rising crime rates, poor housing, municipal debt burden and tax disparity ranked the Boston SMSA near the bottom of urban America, below cities such as Detroit, Gary, Newark, and Oakland. These trends were sharply reversed in the 1980s and early 1990s, however. Propelled …