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Nanjeanne

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8. Oh for heaven's sake! So . . . any economist who has positive response to Sanders' proposals is a
Thu Apr 11, 2019, 02:29 PM
Apr 2019

hack? Quoting articles has nothing to do with Friedman's qualifications. Do I need to post articles that agree with him? This is silly.

Here's his background - he really is such a slacker.

Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 1986. Dissertation: Politics and Unions: Government, Ideology, and the Labor Movement in the United States and France, 1880-1914.
B.A., Economics and History, Columbia University, 1977

Professional Experience:
University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Department of Economics, September 1984-present
Tufts University: Department of Economics, Lecturer, September 1983-June 1984
Clark University: Department of Economics, Part-time Instructor, Spring 1983
International Ladies Garment Workers' Union: Research Assistant, June 1977-July 1978

Research Interests:
Economic History: 19th and 20th century United States
New World Slavery: 19th and 20th century France
Labor History: Europe and North America
Labor Economics
Political Economy
The Economics of Health Care

Honors and Awards:
German Marshall Fund of the United States Fellowship, 1989-90
Certificate of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching, Harvard University, 1981
Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University

Professional Activities:
Drafted financing plans for single-payer health care systems for Maryland, Massachusetts and the United States.
Associate Editor of Labor History 2003-present.
Member of the Editorial Board, The Journal of Economic History (September 1994 - 1998).
Member of the Editorial Board, The American Journal of Sociology (September 1995 - 1997).

Affiliations:
American Economic Association
Economic History Association
Labor and Working Class History Association
Social Science History Association
Society for French Historical Studies
Selected Publications:
Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring means to ends in a democratic Labor Movement (London and New York, Routledge, 2007).

State-Making and Labor Movements. The United States and France, 1876-1914 (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1998).

"Success and Failure in Third Party Politics: The Knights of Labor and the Union Labor Coalition in Massachusetts, 1884-88" International Labor and Working Class History 62 (Fall 2002), 164-88.

"What is Wrong with Economics? And What will Make it Right?" Working USA (Fall 2000), 133-47.

"The Political Economy of Early Southern Unionism: Race, Politics, and Labor in the South, 1880-1953," Journal of Economic History 60 (June 2000), 384-413.

"New Estimates of United States Union Membership, 1880-1914," Historical Methods 32 (Spring 1999), 75-86.

"Revolutionary Syndicalism and French Labor: The Rebels Behind the Cause" French Historical Studies (Spring 1997).

"Worker Militancy and its Consequences: Political Responses to Labor Unrest in the United States, 1877-1914," International Labor and Working Class History (Fall 1991), 5-17.

"Capitalism, Socialism, Republicanism and the State: France 1877-1914" Social Science History 14:1 (Spring 1990), 151-74.

"The State and the Making of the Working Class, France and the United States 1880-1914," in Theory and Society (May 1988), 403-30.

"Strike Success and Union Ideology, the United States and France, 1880-1914," Journal of Economic History (March 1988), 1-25.

"The Heights of Slaves in Trinidad," Social Science History (November 1982), 482-515.

What a loser!!!!!!!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided

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