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  • Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston College
    The recurring theme in my work is the origin and political impact of economic ideas. My 1996 article in the American Sociological Review, entitled "A True American System of Finance: Frame Resonance in the U.S. Labor Movement, 1866-1896," analyzed 19th century labor movement rhetoric concerning the problems of the American working class, focusing on conflict between "greenbacker" ideology and expe...
  • Journalist in Residence, Global Economy and Development Program, The Brookings Institution
  • Former United States Secretary of Commerce
  • CISCO Visiting Executive
  • General Counsel, Cisco China, Cisco Systems Inc.
    ExpertiseTechnology licensing; intellectual property law
  • Associate Director of Political Science, The George Washington University
    I am an associate professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University. I have previously been assistant professor at George Washington University and the University of Toronto, and a senior research fellow at the Max-Planck Project Group in Bonn, Germany. I work on a variety of topics, including trust, the politics of the Internet and international and comp...
  • Staff Writer, The Washington Post
    Amy Goldstein is a staff writer for the Washington Post, where she writes nationally about social policy issues. Her pieces focus on health care reform, Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security, welfare, housing, and the strains placed on the social safety net by the recent recession.  During more than two decades at the Post, she has covered the White House and other notable news events of rec...
  • Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada
    Ted has published extensively on issues related to social movements and population health, local government, and international cooperation for urban development in Latin America.  A leading Canadian authority on Brazil, his work has appeared in monographs, edited works, and a range of academic journals including Cities, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Developing Areas, Thir...
  • Professor of Public Policy and Technology at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University
  • Kent H. Hughes is currently the Director of the Program on America and the Global Economy (PAGE) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. As part of the PAGE agenda, he published a book, Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of American Economic Competitiveness (Wilson Center Press 2005), which emphasizes the importance of innovation and education to America’s fut...

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