America vs Europe or America and Europe? Corporate Profit Strategies and Labor Markets in the Knowledge/Franchise Economy | With Professor Mark Schwartz, Department of Politics at UVA

This virtual event is part of the TransAtlantic Masters Program Fall Friday Lecture Series. Please RSVP by 12pm on October 30.

Herman Mark Schwartz is a professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. He is a geographically oriented economic historian who finds it congenial to work in a politics department because he studies the constitution of and interaction of state and market power. He has worked on foreign debt financed, agricultural export led economic development in the 19th century; the development of the global economy since 1500; marketization of the welfare state in the 1980s and 1990s; and the global causes and consequences of the American housing bubble. He is currently working on the political economy of the knowledge economy.