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Gunnar Trumbull is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy area. Trumbull graduated from Harvard College in 1991 and earned a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T. in 1999. He has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, and a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 2001, where his research focuses on European political economy.
Trumbull's core interest is with consumer politics. He is author of Consumer Capitalism: Politics, Product Markets, and Firm Strategy in France and Germany (Cornell University Press, 2006), which explores the political roots of consumer protection policies that emerged in France and Germany beginning in the 1970s. He is also the author of two new books. Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests (Harvard University Press, forthcoming) investigates the sources of interest group influence on in public policy. He argues that diffuse groups like consumers are more influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. Consumer Credit in Postwar America and France: The Political Construction of Economic Interest (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) explores the politics and business of consumer lending over the 20th century. He argues that America came to see credit as a form of welfare policy that could take the place of an expansive welfare state.
Trumbull also conducts research on technology policy. His book Silicon and the State: French Innovation Policy in the Internet Age (2004) traces France's policy response in the late-1990s to the apparent success of the Silicon Valley model of technology innovation.
| Current Institution | Harvard University |
| Current School | Harvard Business School |
| Department | Business Administration |
| Disciplines | |
| Address | Harvard Business School Boston Massachusetts United States Phone: (617) 495-6326 |
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Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D.,
Political Science
(1999)
Harvard College
Graduate
(1991)
Work Experience
Associate Professor
Harvard Business School
Achievements
General
Publication Summary
Books
- Trumbull, J. Gunnar. Consumer Credit in Postwar America and France: The Political Construction of Economic Interest. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
- Trumbull, Gunnar. Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, forthcoming.
- Trumbull, Gunnar. Consumer Capitalism: Politics, Product Markets, and Firm Strategy in France and Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
- Trumbull, Gunnar. Silicon and the State: French Innovation Policy in the Internet Age. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
Published Papers
- Trumbull, Gunnar. "Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France." Politics and Society 40, no. 1 (2012).
- Trumbull, Gunnar. "Varieties of Consumerism." Jahrbuch fuer Wirtschaftsgeschichte (spring 2006).
- Trumbull, Gunnar. "Policy Activism in a Globalized Economy: France's 35-hour Work Week." French Politics, Culture, and Society 20, no. 3 (fall 2002).
- Trumbull, Gunnar. "More Trade, Safer Products." Swiss Political Science Review (fall 2000).
Book Chapters
- Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France." In The Voice of the Consumer. Palgrave, forthcoming.
- Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "Consumer Policy." Chap. 26 in The Oxford Handbook on Business and Government, edited by David Coen, Wyn Grant and Graham Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "Between Global and Local: The Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France." In The Voice of the Citizen Consumer, edited by K. Bruckweh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Trumbull, Gunnar. "The Surprise of Collective Action: Consumer Mobilization in France, 1970-1985." In Affluence and Activism: Organized Consumers in the Post-War Era, edited by Even Lange and Iselin Theien. Oslo: Unipub, 2004.
- Trumbull, Gunnar. "Strategies of Consumer Group Mobilization." In Material Politics: The State and Consumer Society, edited by Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton. Oxford: Berg, 2000.
- Trumbull, Gunnar. "Divergent Paths of Product Market Regulation in France and Germany, 1970-1990." In Global Political Economy: Among and Within Nations, edited by Stuart S. Nagel. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2000.
- Trumbull, Gunnar, Anne Wren, Bob Hancke, and David Soskice. "Wage Bargaining, Labour Markets and Macroeconomic Performance in the Netherlands." In The German and Dutch Economies: Who Follows Whom? edited by Lei Delsen and Eelke de Jong. New York: Physica Verlag, 1998.
Books
Consumer capitalismBy
J. Trumbull,
2006
The unfettered marketplace, in which uncertainty rules and the admonition caveat emptor ('let the buyer beware') dictates each consumer decision, has today virtually disappeared. Consumers... |
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