Lovett (Tulane Law School), Eckes (a former commissioner of the U.S. International Commission during the Reagan and Bush I administrations), and Brinkman (international economics, Portland State U.) evaluate the evolution of U.S. trade policy, focusing on the period from the establishment of the Gen

This paper uses the theory of "capital as power" to analyze the struggle over public pensions in the United States. While mainstream commentators claim that public pensions must be "reformed" because they are "under funded", I argue that the metrics used to make this argument are unsound....