While most standard economic models of international trade assume full employment, Carl Davidson and Steven Matusz have argued over the past two decades that this reliance on full-employment modeling is misleading and ill-equipped to tackle many important trade-related questions. This book brings together the authors' pioneering work in creating models that more accurately reflect the real-world connections between international trade and labor markets.
 The material collected here presents the theoretical and empirical foundations of equilibrium unemployment modeling, which the authors and their collaborators developed to give researchers and policymakers a more realistic picture of how international trade affects labor markets, and of how transnational differences in labor markets affect international trade. They address the shortcomings of standard models, describe the empirics that underlie equilibrium unemployment models, and illustrate how these new models can yield vital insights into the relationship between international trade and employment. This volume also includes an indispensable general introduction as well as concise section introductions that put the authors' work in context and reveal the thinking behind their ideas.
 Economists are only now realizing just how important these ideas are, making this book essential reading for researchers and students.

International Trade with Equilibrium Unemployment

Business & Money

Carl Davidson

Steven J. Matusz

Economics

Princeton University Press

During the late 1960s, when students all over American were practicing direct democracy on campus by waging massive student strikes and taking over their university buildings, the three essays collected here for the first time were among the most widely read pieces of student radical literature. Their author, Carl Davidson, was national vice-president and inter-organizational secretary of the SDS. Starting from the sociologists' conclusion that modern universities are “knowledge factories” designed to serve the Military Industrial Complex, Davidson, in these essays, explored various analogies and connections between students and the working class and outlined a theory of student syndicalism that characterized a critical phase in the development of SDS. Drawing not only on classical Marxism but also on IWW and anarcho-syndicalist ideas as well as on newer revolutionary currents such as the Dutch Provos and French Situationists, these writings were among the most original and influential documents of the American New Left in its dynamic first decade, and remain an unexcelled “how-to” manual for insurgent students seeking to gain some measure of control over their lives. In a new afterward, the author situates the rise of student syndicalism in its historic context, while reflecting on the meaning of these writings for today.

The New Radicals in the Multiversity and Other Students for a Democratic Society (Sds) Writings on Student Syndicalism : (1966-67) (Sixties Series)

History

Americas

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company

A collection 15 essays by the authors covering a full set of new and unique theoretical work on the crisis in socialist theory, the impact of the information revolution, globalization, the rise of the right, and an outline and practical examples of strategy and tactics on how to deal with it.

CyberRadicalism: A New Left for a Global Age

Jerry Harris

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