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The worldwide wave of democratization and the nearly total disappearance of communism at the end of the twentieth century were major economic and political changes of our time. These earth-shaking changes lead us to raise the question, Why now? Why did these developments occur as they did, when they did? Jean-Jacques Rosa shows how the transformation in communication and information technology has led to the downfall of twentieth century political and corporate hierarchies and is a driving force behind today's democratic free-market trend.

Jean-Jacques Rosa offers an analysis of the grand cycle in social organization of the twentieth century, showing how the transformation in communication and information technology has led to the downfall of the old political and corporate hierarchies. He explains how today's explosion of freely available information is fueling the democratic free-market revolution and reveals its universal contemporary consequences.

1 Changes over Time in the Union-Nonunion Wage Differential in the United States -- 2 Strike Cost and Wages Rates: Cross-Industry Differences -- 3 Cyclical Strike Activity and Mature Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Canadian Data: 1960–1976 -- 4 The Relative Wage Effect of French Unions -- 5 Trade Unions and Restrictive Practices -- 6 The Economic Analysis of the Trade Union as a Political Institution -- 7 Toward a Theory of the Union Firm -- 8 The Agency Problem in a Nonproprietary Theory of Union Behavior -- 9 The Empirical Performance of a Model of Trade Union Behavior -- 10 The Determinants of Union Staff Salaries: A New Meaning to Business Unionism -- 11 Unions: Economic Performance and Labor Market Structure -- 12 Union Membership and Union Management: A Research Agenda for the '80s -- Contributing Authors.

View that the euro has not lived up to its promises and that the choice is between abandoning the euro or creating a federal European state. Summaries in English and Spanish p. 493 and 507.