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World Health, Poverty and development brought alive

…global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, his current work focuses on dispelling common myths about the so-called developing world, which (he points out) is no longer worlds away from the…

James Galbraith remarks

…when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father [John Kenneth Galbraith]. The leading economists of the Austrian school—including von…

Time to move beyond "Nothing" on Social Security?

…a certain C. Fred Bergsten. Who’s he? “C. Fred Bergsten has been director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics since its creation in 1981.” Yep nothing like loading up…

Will Marshall Proposes Another Prize for Krugman

…nasty but, rather, to be sophomoric, how is the progressive policy institute doing in comparison ? You know Krugman only found out about Marshall’s last contribution to the debate on…

Pick your Pork: Semi-Final Edition (Senate Stimulus Bill)

…$65 million Watershed Rehab $30 million SD Salaries (education) $100 million Distance Learning $98 million School Nutrition $50 million aquaculture $100 million NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) $100…

How many "Free Trade" Economists will thank the Union?

…recent study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics that “Buy American” could cost, not save, thousands of U.S. jobs. “The American people are with us and with you on…

What is US trade policy to be? Who cares?

rdan Naked Capitalism also points to the underlying inattention to US trade policy and our financial wizards. Last night, we reported that the International Institute of Finance was calling for…