carl mosk

University of Victoria, Economics, Faculty Member

Followers

Following

Co-author

Public Views

I am Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria specializing in Economic History. I have published a number of books dealing with the economic and demographic history of Japan, as well as volumes focused on international trade and migration, nationalism and the impact of religious ideologies upon the evolution of capitalism.
Phone: 1-250-818-5320
Address: 2641 Schooner Way
Pender Island
British Columbia
CANADA V0N 2M2

less

Sheilagh Ogilvie

University of Oxford

Cristina Bicchieri

University of Pennsylvania

Alejandra B Osorio

Wellesley College

Andrea Peto

Central European University

roberta pearson

University of Nottingham

Martin van Bruinessen

Universiteit Utrecht

David Seamon

Kansas State University

Elisabetta Silvestri

University of Pavia

Maria Brincker

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Asli Odman

Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University

InterestsView All (36)

Uploads

Papers by carl mosk

1 “Asian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest: Canadian and American Experiences Compared” Abstract

Driving Asian immigration to the Pacific Northwest is Asia’s expanding trade

The social transformation

Japanese Economic Development, 2007

China, 1900–2000

Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia, 2013

Miracle Growth and Its Aftermath in Japan

States, Violence, and Technology: The Evolution of Conflict, 1950-2020

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021

Has violence decreased on the international arena over the postwar period? This paper argues that... more Has violence decreased on the international arena over the postwar period? This paper argues that it has but not necessarily for the reasons suggested by a number of prominent scholars who have addressed the issue of violence in recent years. The argument in this paper is that the main reason violence has declined is technological, mainly driven by the Internet, use of cell phones and global access to social media. Other reasons cited – states curbing violence, ideological shifts due to the acceptance of Enlightenment principles globally – are not compelling, While the trend in violence is largely technological the reasons why violence has persisted is due to ideological clashes: over imperialism and race linked through the pseudoscientific theory of eugenics; and the threat that secularism poses to the manipulation of religion for political purposes by state elites. These clashes have hardly disappeared in the postwar era. Indeed the existence of these ideological struggles offers a potential solution to the problem of cyberwarfare unleashed by technological changes in global communications.

Labour Segmentation in Interwar Japan

Competition and Cooperation in Japanese Labour Markets, 1995

The origins of the postwar subdivision of the labour market, into distinct submarkets, demarcated... more The origins of the postwar subdivision of the labour market, into distinct submarkets, demarcated on the demand side in terms of specific contracts offered workers, and on the supply side in terms of distinctive signals about expected levels of effort capacity and costs of being trained, lie in the interwar period. To assert this is not to deny that economic and social institutions dating back to the Tokugawa period and even earlier are of no importance to an understanding of origins of postwar Japanese labour market practices. Indeed, to search for origins is to embark on a journey backward through history to which there is no obvious and predetermined final resting point. But in my view it is first and foremost during the interwar era that one comes upon institutions of labour market subdivision sufficiently similar to those of the postwar era, and sees labour market outcomes resulting from their operation of sufficient similarity to the outcomes of the postwar period, for us to refer to the interwar period as the formative era for the system dominating the four decades after 1950. In making this argument I emphasize the emergence of dualism between the combined sectors of agriculture and light industry on the one hand, and heavy industry on the other. In the former sector wages were relatively low, and archetypical labour market contracts tended to be either of either the family firm or the small-commercial-firm type. In the latter sector wages were significantly higher and archetypical labour market contracts tended to be the large firm type.

Honda Motor

Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World

Une révision du concept de transition démographique à la lumière de l'expérience de l'Asie orientale

Population (French Edition), 1995

La theorie de la transition demographique a ete construite a partir de l'histoire europeenne ... more La theorie de la transition demographique a ete construite a partir de l'histoire europeenne pour servir de modele general, applicable a tous les pays et civilisations. Or, pour l'A., les parametres pris en compte restent tres specifiques au continent europeen et a son histoire et il faut donc rester tres prudent quant au degre de generalite de cette theorie. Les donnees demographiques de plus en plus disponibles d'Asie orientale permettent, au travers d'une comparaison de la fecondite et de la mortalite par âge en Europe et en Asie orientale, de mettre a jour les ressemblances, mais surtout les principales differences dans les phases de transition des deux continents. Le modele europeen comprend trois phases, tandis que le modele asiatique en comprend quatre

Offshoring in the Global Economy: Microeconomic Structure and Macroeconomic Implications, by Robert C. Feenstra

Journal of Regional Science, 2011

... Offshoring in the Global Economy: Microeconomic Structure and Macroeconomic Implications, by ... more

Collective Bargaining and Capital Accumulation

Competition and Cooperation in Japanese Labour Markets, 1995

Why are Japanese unions cooperative in their wage demands? Why has there been so little disruptio... more Why are Japanese unions cooperative in their wage demands? Why has there been so little disruption of work through strikes over the last quarter of a century? Why have rates of capital accumulation been so high over the last four decades? In this chapter I address these disparate questions using my theory of integrated segmentation and my model of large-firm labour contracts, drawing from these theoretical concepts implications about the divisiveness of union bargaining strategy as constrained by the contracts governing employment in firms. Because the securing of costly on-going collective bargaining rights is of little interest to workers who work for their own families or work in small firms where the probability of job separation is high, most private-sector unions tend to be in companies operating with large-firm labour contracts and tend to be enterprise-specific (since extensive within-company training and the overriding importance of within company seniority make both unions and management ambivalent about interference from non-company outsiders), fissures have opened up not only within the membership of individual unions;but also between unions attempting to operate in consolidated federations, and between one federation and another. These fissures weaken the ability of unions to carry on protracted strikes, that is they dilute the capacity of labour to extract rents from the owners of capital.

CV 2022 (2)

CV, 2022

Updated CV for Carl Mosk, 2022.

carl mosk

Uploads

Papers by carl mosk

Log In