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The Great Trade Collapse…VoxEU

Richard Baldwin at VoxEU introduces a new book on “great trade collapse” before the WTO meeting occurring shortly. Re-posted with attribution: The Great Trade Collapse World trade experienced a sudden,…

1204 and forever…more unitary executive?

Richard Trumka (President, AFLCIO), and others as witnesses. Since unitary executive power has been the trend in the last few decades, each party sort of picking its turf to expand…

Brad DeLong is Correct

…Krauthammer, Anne Applebaum, and Richard Cohen as if they were sane. But when your Ombudsman claims that your readers “typically demand coverage that is unfailingly neutral,” and cites as an…

Taxing wealthy to pay for health care

…Check out our site.) Make sure you catch Presidents Obama’s response to the obligatory question framed as “punishing the rich”. The article interviews Professor Richard Wolff, economist, U of Massachusetts….

United Nations conversation on the global economic crisis

…around the globe, including Olivier Blanchard, Janos Bogardi, Francois Bourguignon, Noam Chomsky, Richard Cooper, Evsey Gurvich, Thomas Hoenig, Robert Johnson, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Wim Naude, Léonce Ndikumana, Eisuke Sakakibara, Luc…

James Galbraith remarks

…University of Texas professor James Galbraith, an Observer contributing writer, and former Majority Leader Richard Armey, chief instigator of the recent Astroturf “tea party” protests. Armey had begun his remarks…