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2007-08-07T12:55:00.000+01:00

New York TimesAugust 7, 2007In Dusty Archives, a Theory of AffluenceBy NICHOLAS WADEFor thousands of years, most people on earth lived in abject poverty, first as hunters and gatherers, then as peasants or laborers. But with the Industrial Revolution, some societies traded this ancient poverty for amazing affluence.Historians and economists have long struggled to understand how this transition

2007-04-02T17:00:00.000+01:00

March 28, 2007Gomory and Rodrik,Free-Trade SkepticsBy BOB DAVIS and DAVID WESSELFor many years, Ralph Gomory and Dani Rodrik were on the outs with much of the economic establishment because they argued that free traders greatly underestimated the costs of trade liberalization. Now, with jobs headed overseas and wages stuck for many Americans,their views are attracting greater interest. In many

2007-04-02T16:34:00.000+01:00

The cheerleaders' threat to global trade DANI RODRIK Financial Times (London, England)The Financial Times Limited Financial Times (London, England)March 27, 2007 Tuesday Asia Edition 1SECTION: COMMENT; Pg. 11LENGTH: 881 wordsHEADLINE: The cheerleaders' threat to global trade DANI RODRIKBYLINE: By DANI RODRIKBODY:Which is the greatest threat to globalisation: the protesters on the streets every

2007-04-02T16:13:00.000+01:00

Free Trade: Pause or Fast-Forward?By Sebastian MallabyMonday, April 2, 2007; A15Two months ago an economist named Lawrence Mishel addressed the fraught politics of trade at a House committee hearing. He was not against trade, Mishel began; transactions among consenting adults are seen as a good thing by all respectable economists, and Mishel clearly wanted to be one of them. And yet, while

2007-01-14T19:26:00.000Z

January 14, 2007The Coming Democratic War on Free TradeBy Steve ChapmanIt's an elementary axiom of economics that if Person A sells something to Person B, it's good for each of them. Otherwise, why would they bother? It should follow that if Country A sells something to Country B, both again benefit. But Democrats have turned against that basic insight. They think if Americans buy something from

2007-01-02T22:27:00.000Z

CINCINNATI ENQUIRERWe'd better listen to Ghost of War Yet to ComeBY RICHARD J. HARKNETTSunday, December 17, 2006Like the Ghost of Christmas Past in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," the Iraq Study Group's report on the way forward in Iraq has provided a picture of the present through the prism of the personal past. Although the members of the Iraq Study Group are unquestionably experienced former

2006-12-05T06:55:00.000Z

Latin America divided into two leftsBy Tyler Bridges and Pablo BacheletMcClatchy Newspapers(MCT)LIMA, Peru - Latin America's busiest presidential election season ever ended Sunday with the re-election of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. On the surface, the left scored a resounding series of victories, capturing nine of the 12 races.But the question is, which left?The elections of the past year, in fact,

2006-12-05T04:14:00.001Z

The Grand Old Protectionist PartyHey, it's not just Democrats who are killing free trade.By Daniel GrossSlate.comUpdated Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006, at 6:37 AM ETSince the elections, concerned internationalists have fretted that the newly Democratic Congress will curtail the nation's free-trade policies. In Slate, Jacob Weisberg identified the new breed of protectionist Lou Dobbs Democrats. "So is

2006-11-13T16:52:00.000Z

Return to Rubinomics?By Sebastian MallabyMonday, November 13, 2006; Page A21During their long years in the wilderness, Democrats lashed out against trade and globalization, even though denying the economic case for trade is like pretending that tax cuts pay for themselves. Now that they have won Congress, the Democrats must prove that they are more than the mirror image of their opponents. This

2006-11-13T03:38:00.000Z

APEC hopes to 'give a push' to trade talksAgence France-PresseSenior officials from Asia-Pacific economies are considering drawing up a strongly worded statement for approval at a summit meeting here on reviving stalled global trade talks, a delegate said Sunday.Issuing a separate statement - rather than just including the issue in an end- of-summit communiqué - would underscore concerns in the

2006-11-11T00:09:00.000Z

Big news on the world trade front...Russia Makes Deal on Entry Into Trade GroupBy ANDREW E. KRAMERNYTNovember 10, 2006MOSCOW, Nov. 10 — The United States and Russia today reached an agreement in principle on Russian accession to the World Trade Organization, advancing a stop-and-go effort by Moscow that began soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union.The deal would be signed on Nov. 18, when

2006-11-04T16:55:00.001Z

Africa and ChinaNov 3rd 2006From The Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWireAfrican heads of state gather for a summit in ChinaThis week's summit in Beijing between the Chinese government and the leaders of more than 40 African countries has drawn attention to the increasingly important role that China is now playing on the continent. It is unclear whether this role is mutually advantageous,

2006-11-01T19:39:00.000Z

The death of urban planning (Originally Posted 2002, Cincinnati Post)Guest column by Robert E. ManleyThe funeral is now being arranged for urban planning in Cincinnati -- the first city in the country to have a comprehensive master plan (1925) and the birthplace of city and regional planning as applied in the U.S.The events leading up to the memorial service have been in the works for some time.

2006-11-01T19:09:00.000Z

Cincinnati EnquirerSunday, May 16, 2004U.S. must get out of unwinnable mess in IraqBy Thomas A. Idinopulos and Abraham H. MillerGuest columnistsFor more than 20 years, the two of us, professors and students of international relations, liberal and conservative, have disagreed about every major international policy issue. Yet today we find ourselves in the unusual position of agreeing about the war

2006-10-31T17:34:00.000Z

Cotton-picking subsidiesLA TIMES EDITORIALOctober 31, 2006Corporate welfare for growers is wasting taxpayer dollars and hurting the U.S. image abroad.A CENTURY AND a half ago, the U.S. cotton industry fueled a booming trade in African slaves and indirectly helped spark the Civil War. One big difference between then and now is that although American cotton is still afflicting Africa, now the

2006-10-31T17:31:00.001Z

Globalization anxietyLA TIMES EDITORIALThe world is richer than ever before, but the vast middle class isn't getting many of the benefits.By Lawrence H. SummersLAWRENCE H. SUMMERS is a contributing editor to LA Times Opinion.October 30, 2006AGAINST ALL ODDS, we are living in a time of plenty. Neither the aftershocks of Sept. 11 nor a tripling in oil prices has prevented the world's economy from

2006-10-30T00:38:00.000Z

GAO chief warns economic disaster loomsBy MATT CRENSONAP NATIONAL WRITERSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERDavid M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States Government Accountability Office, speaks during a Fiscal Wake-Up Tour public meeting at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin, Texas, in this September 28, 2006 file photo. The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour is sponsored by the Concord Coalition, a

2006-10-25T04:37:00.000+01:00

MILLIONS FOR MILLIONSby CONNIE BRUCKNEW YORKERThis year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner and some high-tech entrepreneurs are competing to provide credit to the world’s poor.Issue of 2006-10-30Posted 2006-10-23Over the Labor Day weekend of 1995, a ponytailed, bearded young software engineer named Pierre Omidyar wrote a code that enabled people to buy and sell items on the Internet. In the first few

2006-10-24T04:00:00.000+01:00

How this US election may help IraqThe Monitor's ViewChristian Science MonitorOctober 24, 2006The prospect of a Democrat-run Congress after the Nov. 7 election would put both parties in charge of Iraq. Might Democrats and President Bush then work together for a joint exit plan? Various plans are now in the wind, hinting a consensus is possible...

2006-10-24T02:54:00.000+01:00

Global History: The Three Rounds of GlobalizationBy Ashutosh Sheshabalaya Thursday, October 19, 2006The comatose state of the Doha Round of trade talks marks a more significant threat to the world order than previous anti-globalization demonstrations. Now, the underlying cause of discontent is a shift in the world’s economic (and political) center of gravity — and the varying mix of enthusiasm

2006-10-23T23:14:00.002+01:00

A Nadir of U.S. PowerBy Sebastian MallabyMonday, October 23, 2006; A21Washington PostIt's not exactly morning in America.In Iraq, things get ever uglier, and the old remedy of extra troops now seems tragically futile. The Bush team has recently tried putting thousands of additional soldiers into Baghdad, and the result after two months is that violence there has increased.Iraq is often seen as a

2006-10-23T23:14:00.001+01:00

A Nadir of U.S. PowerBy Sebastian MallabyMonday, October 23, 2006; A21It's not exactly morning in America.In Iraq, things get ever uglier, and the old remedy of extra troops now seems tragically futile. The Bush team has recently tried putting thousands of additional soldiers into Baghdad, and the result after two months is that violence there has increased.Iraq is often seen as a special

2006-10-21T04:35:00.000+01:00

Republican difficulties: How goes Ohio?Oct 12th 2006 CLEVELAND, COLUMBUS AND JACKSON From The Economist print editionSleaze and an uncertain economy are hurting incumbentsTHE Buckeye State is America in miniature. It has a depressed north-eastern corner around Cleveland and Akron, where jobs lost from steel mills and tyre plants have never been replaced. It has a poor, rural south-east in the

2006-10-21T03:43:00.000+01:00

Washington Post columnist Marcela Sanchez has an interesting take on Hispanic immigration in the US.

2006-10-21T00:17:00.000+01:00

Discussion with Peter Katzenstein and Robert Keohane on Anti-American sentiment worldwide.

2006-10-20T05:20:00.000+01:00

The two issues of crime and housing will be highlighted often on this site. Since the US federal system allows for experimentation in each of the 50 states and their cities, it only makes sense to look around a bit to see what different locales are up to. Today, from Savannah, a recent (2005) anti-crime report.

2006-10-20T05:05:00.000+01:00

Yale Global Online/ IHT: Microcredit pioneer gets Nobel Prize

2006-10-20T04:56:00.001+01:00

National Vacant Properties Campaign Information.

2006-10-20T04:53:00.000+01:00

University of Cincinnati Criminal Justice Reports: Ideas and insights on addressing the issue of violence in Cincinnati.

2006-10-20T04:45:00.000+01:00

The Abell Award in Urban Policy: Soliciting ideas for addressing city issues in Baltimore.

2005-06-26T21:23:00.000+01:00

The Illusion of 'Managing' ChinaBy Robert KaganSunday, May 15, 2005; Page B07 There has been much disc ussion recently about how to "manage the rise of China." The phrase itself is soothing, implying gradualism, predictability and time. Time enough to think and prepare, to take measurements of China's trajectory and adjust as necessary. If China eventually emerges as a clear threat, there will be

2005-05-27T17:12:00.000+01:00

May 25, 2005Saving the World BankBy SEBASTIAN MALLABYFrom the May/June 2005 issue of Foreign Affairs.Sebastian Mallaby is a Washington Post columnist and the author of The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations.MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?In the past five years, the world has created the International Criminal Court; the Global Fund for AIDS,

2005-05-26T22:26:00.001+01:00

May 25, 2005Fixer-UpperHousing BoomStarts to TransformDistressed CitiesAfter Long Decline, BaltimoreSees New Investors Rush Into Poor NeighborhoodsGertrude Stein Lived HereBy JAMES R. HAGERTY and KEMBA J. DUNHAM Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNALMay 25, 2005; Page A1BALTIMORE -- Last year, Terence Trader and a friend paid $77,000 for a crumbling, six-bedroom home here with garish yellow

2005-05-24T17:03:00.000+01:00

Myths of globalizationBy Ralph PetersEvery generation has its illusions. One of ours is that "globalization" — the internationalization of trade, services, investment and information-sharing spurred by the Internet — will shatter states and change humankind for the better. While globalization itself is real enough, the visions imposed upon it by idealists and con men alike only make it harder to

2005-05-20T14:27:00.000+01:00

The Chinese ConnectionBy PAUL KRUGMANStories about the new Treasury report condemning China's currency policy probably had most readers going, "Huh?" Frankly, this is an issue that confuses professional economists, too. But let me try to explain what's going on.Over the last few years China, for its own reasons, has acted as an enabler both of U.S. fiscal irresponsibility and of a return to

2005-05-16T08:20:00.000+01:00

Trade Liberalization Earns Mixed Marks As Fighter of PovertyBy BOB DAVISStaff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNALMay 16, 2005; Page A2The newest way to sell trade pacts is to trumpet how much they help poor countries. Thus, a new round of global trade talks is dubbed "the development round." And President Bush promotes a Central American trade deal as a way to bring "good jobs and higher labor

2005-05-16T08:16:00.000+01:00

New WTO Chief Targets Trade DealLamy Sees the CompletionOf Doha Round as Priority;'It's A Very Risky Business'By SCOTT MILLER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNALMay 16, 2005; Page A14BRUSSELS – The new head of the World Trade Organization, who once called the world's free-trade enforcer a "medieval" institution, predicted he will be able to use the often-powerless post to broker a global

2005-05-16T08:11:00.000+01:00

China Slams U.S. Over Textile CurbsBeijing Says Import LimitsViolate Free-Trade Pacts,Hints at CountermeasuresBy GREG HITT in Washington and PETER WONACOTT in Shanghai Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNALMay 16, 2005China reacted strongly to the move by the U.S. to blunt surging Chinese textile imports, heightening tensions that could spill over into other areas of an already strained

2005-05-16T08:10:00.000+01:00

May 16, 2005Life at the Top in America Isn't Just Better, It's LongerBy JANNY SCOTTJean G. Miele's heart attack happened on a sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan last May. He was walking back to work along Third Avenue with two colleagues after a several-hundred-dollar sushi lunch. There was the distant rumble of heartburn, the ominous tingle of perspiration. Then Mr. Miele, an architect, collapsed

2005-05-16T08:08:00.000+01:00

May 15, 2005Class in America: Shadowy Lines That Still DivideBy JANNY SCOTT and DAVID LEONHARDTThere was a time when Americans thought they understood class. The upper crust vacationed in Europe and worshiped an Episcopal God. The middle class drove Ford Fairlanes, settled the San Fernando Valley and enlisted as company men. The working class belonged to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., voted Democratic and

2005-05-08T16:54:00.000+01:00

May 8, 2005The Perfect Storm That Could Drown the EconomyBy DANIEL GROSSWE seem to be living in apocalyptic times. On NBC's "Revelations," Bill Pullman and Natascha McElhone seek signs of the End of Days. In the Senate, gray-haired eminences speak of the "nuclear option."The doomsday theme is seeping into the normally circumspect world of economics. In April, Arjun Murti, a veteran analyst at the

2005-05-08T16:46:00.000+01:00

Sisyphus as Social DemocratBy J. BRADFORD DELONG Published: April 28, 2005From the May/June 2005 issue of Foreign Affairs.J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. Richard Parker. : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005, 820 pp.$35.00If there were justice in the world, John Kenneth Galbraith

2004-09-06T18:20:00.000+01:00

Global Challenges for U.S. Energy Policy: Economic, Environmental, and Security Risks

2004-09-06T18:08:00.000+01:00

September 6, 2004 THE BIG ISSUES The Candidates' Tariff Dodge his election year is even worse than usual when it comes to avoiding tough issues. And of all the hard choices the candidates are not confronting, the question of agricultural subsidies may be the one they're ducking most energetically. Both John Kerry and George Bush must know that the current budget-busting

2004-08-30T05:20:00.001+01:00

A New Money Machine for the U.S. The old ways can't keep up. We need a value-added tax to meet revenue demands. By Bruce Bartlett Bruce Bartlett is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis. August 29, 2004 WASHINGTON — The United States needs to adopt a value-added tax. Passage of the prescription drug

2004-08-30T05:20:00.000+01:00

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-bartlet29aug29,1,1741067.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions ECONOMY A New Money Machine for the U.S. The old ways can't keep up. We need a value-added tax to meet revenue demands. By Bruce Bartlett Bruce Bartlett is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.

2004-08-29T21:14:00.000+01:00

August 29, 2004 PEOPLE AND POLLUTION A Greener Globe, Maybe By ANDREW C. REVKIN ITH all the hand-wringing about the economic perils of falling populations, and the prospect of a spreading demographic shift from explosion to implosion, there could be one beneficiary: the environment. For decades, the rise in human numbers has been seen as the chief force threatening rain

2004-08-29T21:13:00.000+01:00

August 29, 2004 SUBTRACT BILLIONS Demographic 'Bomb' May Only Go 'Pop!' By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. EMEMBER the population bomb, the fertility explosion set to devour the world's food and suck up or pollute all its air and water? Its fuse has by no means been plucked. But over the last three decades, much of its Malthusian detonation power has leaked out. Birthrates in

2004-08-07T05:17:00.000+01:00

Something I stumbled across today researching something else wholly unrelated... Najam Vision 2020

2004-08-02T05:22:00.000+01:00

Fourteen years ago Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won an election against Myanmar's incumbent military government. After the elections, however, the military annulled the results, leading the US to impose economic sanctions against Myanmar’s government. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, head of the Earth Institute at Columbia

2004-08-02T05:17:00.000+01:00

August 2, 2004 Interim Trade Triumph Short on Hard Details (NYT) By ELIZABETH BECKER ENEVA, Aug. 1 - By agreeing to the eventual elimination of billions of dollars of farm subsides early Sunday morning, the World Trade Organization began to make good on its insistence that wealthy nations end the dumping of subsidized food on the global market. The framework agreement

2004-08-02T02:41:00.000+01:00

from the August 02, 2004 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0802/p06s01-woaf.html World trade gets new lease on life Negotiators reached a series of compromises Sunday that could benefit African farmers. By Abraham McLaughlin | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Keep the bicycle moving - or it will fall over and

2004-08-02T00:37:00.000+01:00

Q&A: WTO trade breakthrough The World Trade Organisation has salvaged global trade talks, with a compromise agreement to overcome a damaging rift between rich and poor countries. BBC News Online looks at why it took so long, and how the deal was reached.

2004-08-01T23:37:00.000+01:00

August 1, 2004 Poor Countries, Rich Resources (NYT Online) he World Bank has helped finance exploitation of oil, gas, coal and other minerals in the developing world, mainly through its private sector lending arm, even though this has rarely advanced the institution's mission of reducing poverty. Indeed, it often makes poverty worse. Three years ago, the bank's president,

2004-08-01T17:15:00.000+01:00

More detailed info from the WTO World trade deal gets thumbs up There has been a broad welcome around the world for a framework accord designed to liberalise global trade. The breakthrough was reached after five days

2004-07-31T04:59:00.000+01:00

July 31, 2004 U.S. Will Cut Farm Subsidies in Trade Deal By ELIZABETH BECKER ENEVA, July 30 - The United States yielded to pressure from developing countries on Friday and agreed to make a 20 percent cut in some of the $19 billion in subsidies it pays to American farmers each year, as members of the World Trade Organization met round the clock here to win approval for a new

2004-07-30T22:20:00.000+01:00

WTO Extends Deadline to Reach Trade Agreement VOA News 30 Jul 2004, 19:28 UTC The World Trade Organization has extended by one day the deadline for a global trade agreement, as members intensely negotiate the latest proposal, released Friday. WTO members now have until midnight Saturday to hash out contentious farm subsidies and industrial tariffs. In the revised draft, major

2004-07-25T19:41:00.001+01:00

WTO Treaty Talks Come Down to the Wire

2004-07-12T02:50:00.000+01:00

Current Status on Negotiations in the Doha Trade Talks

2004-07-10T20:16:00.000+01:00

NYT Article on the Chinese Century

2004-03-30T07:02:00.000+01:00

Sebastian Mallaby critiquing American "Fair Trade" practice

2004-03-29T07:00:00.000+01:00

CS Monitor: Abortion returns as a wedge issue Atlanta Journal Constitution Debate: Is the morning after pill abortion?

2004-03-29T06:41:00.000+01:00

Corruption in Indonesia under Suharto--How it worked.

2004-02-21T22:19:00.000Z

Shake-up at the Sierra Club?

2004-02-21T00:21:00.000Z

More on free trade: Alan Greenspan argues that worker education is the best way to help unemployed Americans in their quest to find work.

2004-02-20T05:04:00.000Z

NYT: Edwards versus Kerry on free trade

2004-02-20T03:54:00.000Z

A friend sent me this from the 1,000 Friends of Oregon site--it is news on the topic of land use.

2004-02-20T02:16:00.000Z

Video Discussion on Why Socialism Failed in America (Featuring Seymour Martin Lipset)

2004-02-19T19:06:00.000Z

"For those of you looking for work out there, take advantage of the opportunities available to embetter yourself." --President George W. Bush, speaking to workers in Harrisburg, PA Source Story: Parties clash over job migration

2004-02-19T15:43:00.000Z

With presidential candidate John Edwards coming out strong against the outsourcing of American jobs, and Bush economic advisor Greg Mankiw arguing that outsourcing is not a problem, the debate over free trade is once again heating up. Here are some recent articles and editorials pertaining to this discussion. "I can already hear free traders sigh. In the long run, they will say, free trade

2004-02-18T00:38:00.000Z

From the CS Monitor: How "End Times" Theology is Gaining Popularity and Impacting US Foreign Policy

2004-02-17T17:22:00.000Z

Check out this Rocky Mountain News Story about the Politics of Environment: Is Linda Seebach right to criticize Northern environmentalists for undermining crucial interests of Southern populations?

2004-02-10T17:22:00.000Z

French religious symbol ban passes important vote

2004-02-10T16:58:00.000Z

Mel Gibson's controversial "The Passion of Christ" is coming out in just a few short weeks. Here is one man's three-pronged take on it. He asks: "Can a Jesus film be too bloody? Can a work of history make room for legend? Can any telling of this story avoid anti-Semitism?" More on the Passion can be found here and here. A response to the movie from the Anti-Defamation League can be found

2004-02-10T16:36:00.000Z

I've added Washington Post DotMil to the military links panel; the archives are all there but now DotMil archivist William Arkin is now with the LA Times. Here is his latest from February 8. It is entitled "Treasure Hunters Need Reliable Maps", and discusses intelligence and the war in Iraq. You may have to register to access it, but registration is free. For a conservative take on Arkin's

2004-02-09T23:23:00.000Z

From CBS News: "An estimated 70 million Americans call themselves evangelicals, and their beliefs have already reshaped American politics. In the last election, 40 percent of the votes for George W. Bush came from their ranks, and now those beliefs are beginning to reshape the culture as well..." Rise of the Righteous Army

2004-02-09T17:19:00.000Z

After a long hiatus, I have finally found the time to begin posting links and stories. The first topic will cover the emerging American divide, political and religious. This, along with the specific, exceptional characteristics of American culture, will be the theme of the first week's posts. I plan to pick a new theme every week, and post what I can find on it. Depending on the post,

2004-02-09T17:02:00.000Z

From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Forum: Across the great Christian divide The split between evangelicals and progressives is growing deeper, says the Rev. N. Graham Standish, reflecting fault lines in society as a whole Sunday, February 08, 2004 Have modern Christians become a people of two faiths divided by a common Bible? Looking at the increasing division among Christians on so many

2004-02-09T07:42:00.001Z

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2003-08-21T05:12:00.000+01:00

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