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Deja Vu, all over again: a comment on Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, winner take-all politics / Block, Fred; Piven, Frances Fox

Block, Fred	Journal Article
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2010.

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Political Science ; Social Theory ; Business Power

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Swimming against the current:: the rise of a hidden developmental state in the United States / Block, Fred

Block, Fred	Journal Article
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2008.

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Despite the dominant role of market fundamentalist ideas in U.S. politics over the last thirty years, the Federal government has dramatically expanded its capacity to finance and support efforts of the private sector to commercialize new technologies. But the partisan logic of U.S. politics has worked to make these efforts invisible to mainstream public debate. The consequence is that while this "hidden developmental state" has had a major impact on the structure of the U.S. national innovation system, its ability to be effective in the future is very much in doubt. The article ends by arguing that the importance of these developmental initiatives to the U.S. economy could present a significant opening for new progressive initiatives.

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Industrial policy ; Developmental State ; Varieties of Capitalism ; Economic Sociology ; Technology Policy

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ID: 077222

Understanding the diverging trajectories of the United States a / Block, Fred

Block, Fred	Journal Article
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2007.

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This article proposes a neo-Polanyian theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics within contemporary market societies. It uses this framework to analyze the divergence between the United States and other developed societies that has become more pronounced in the first years of the twenty-first century. The argument emphasizes the shifting political alliances of the business community in the United States and suggests that from 1994 onward, business lost power in the right-wing coalition to its religious Right allies. The growing power of a religious-based social movement is a critical ingredient in the unilateralist turn in the Bush Administration's foreign policy

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Social Theory ; Varieties of Capitalism ; United States Business ; Economic Sociology ; Eembedded Economy

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