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December 1995 / January 1996

International Labor Standards: Protectionism or Simple Decency?

Debate on labor standards with Alice Amsden and Richard Rothstein. Also: Joseph Brodsky’s “Letter to Horace,” Richard Flacks on radical democracy in “Strategy in a Dark Time, ” Ned Block on The Bell Curve, and Alan Stone reviews Persuasion. Plus fiction, poetry, book reviews and much more.

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