I’ll be the first to admit, this title is a little optimistic. However, recent events have, at the least, damaged the mainstream image of the current habits of the World Bank and IMF as actions that will save Latin America from crippling debt, poverty, and economic backwardness. Since the rise of the Friedmanite-branch of libertarian […]
We Have the Ability, But What About the Will?:
Oil, Public Goods, and the Greatest Task of Our Time
What happened to the global warming issue? Over the past 2 centuries, the world as we know it has changed in ways no one could have fathomed at any other time in history. The earth’s climate has been […]
In preparation for my graduate studies, focusing on labor, economic, and social histories, I am in the process of reading three recent books on the current state of the labor movement, its history, and its future: A Country that Works by SEIU chair Andy Stern, State of the Unions by St. Louis labor journalist Phil […]
“In parts of Africa where bandits and warlords shoot or rape anything that moves, you often find that the only groups still operating are Doctors Without Borders and religious aid workers: crazy doctors and crazy Christians.” – Nicholas Kristof, NY Times
The preceding quotation landed in my inbox today courtesy of a […]
It’s been refreshing recently to see the presidential election debates turn towards the economy. I can’t say that I appreciate James Carville (longtime Clinton {both of them} strategist) on many issues, but his insistence that “it’s the economy, stupid!” that drives public opinion in elections is dead on. On the heels of the sub-prime lending […]
