Michael Hiscox

"The Demand for Labor Standards: New Evidence from Online Experiments in Social Labeling of Imported Products"

Friday, May 18, 2007
3:30 p.m.
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

Michael Hiscox is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He has published widely in the areas of international political economy and international relations.

Hiscox’s research focuses on the politics of international trade, investment, immigration, and globalization. His first book, International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions and Mobility (Princeton University Press, 2001), won the William H. Riker Prize for best book in political economy from the American Political Science Association. His second book High Stakes: The Political Economy of U.S. Trade Sanctions, 1950-2000 is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Hiscox teaches in the Department of Government and in the Social Studies program at Harvard, and is a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

Download a copy of Hiscox's paper "Is there Consumer Demand for Improved Labor Standards? Evidence from Field Experiments in Social Labeling" (pdf)

Michael Hiscox
Professor of Government
Harvard University