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Suzanne Berger

Suzanne Berger, Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science at MIT, is author of Making in America: From Innovation to Market. 

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Globalization Survived Populism Once Before—and It Can Again

Forget retraining and compensation programs. History offers a better way forward. 
Suzanne Berger

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How Finance Gutted Manufacturing

Since the 1980s, financial market pressures have driven companies to hive off activities that sustained manufacturing.
Suzanne Berger

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Response: Back Down to Earth

The “moonshots” proposed could not be accomplished without a transformation of politics as we know it.
Suzanne Berger

Response: Finance and Manufacturing — Final Response

Reading the responses to my article has been a valuable and eye-opening experience. Brief as they are, they point to how much we still don’t know about production in advanced industrial societies....
Suzanne Berger

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