Posted by Lambert Strether – Naked Capitalism Interview of Bengt-Ake Lundvall by Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues ? March 2014. Originally posted by Yanis Varoufakis on his blog. Highlights ?We might be approaching a political breaking point where the widespread frustration among… Continue Reading
Paul H. Rosenberg – The Nation / Foreign Policy In Focus This article is a joint publication of TheNation.com and Foreign Policy In Focus. As the Ukrainian crisis has unfolded over the past few weeks, it?s hard for Americans not… Continue Reading
Julia Carrie Wong – The Nation Last week, Foreign Policy published a feature on the role of the Academy in foreign policy that asked, among other things, ?Where are all the women?? Included with the article was a graph showing… Continue Reading
By Kevin Maney – Newsweek Banking as we know it is starting to look more outdated than a dot-matrix printer. In China, consumers are rushing to give their savings to Internet companies instead of banks. In the Philippines, an emerging… Continue Reading
By James Kwak – The Baseline Scenario I have previously written about (here, for example) what I call economism, or excessive belief in the little bit that you remember from Economics 101. The problem is twofold. First, Economics 101 usually… Continue Reading
By Pepe Escobar* – Asia Times German Chancellor Angela Merkel could teach US President Barack Obama one or two things about how to establish a dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin. As if Obama would listen. He’d rather boost his… Continue Reading
Suzanne Berger – Boston Review* In May 2013 shareholders voted to break up the Timken Company?a $5 billion Ohio manufacturer of tapered bearings, power transmissions, gears, and specialty steel?into two separate businesses. Their goal was to raise stock prices. The… Continue Reading
Daniel Medwed and Michael Meltsner – The Nation A plea bargain, that is?it?s time to make a deal. Let?s start with the obvious: Edward Snowden doesn?t want to spend the rest of his life in Moscow?or Ecuador, Brazil or the… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 25 2014 (IPS) – Addressing a closed-door meeting of the Group of 77 (G77) developing countries last week, a visibly angry Latin American delegate recounted the growing new hostility towards foreign diplomats in New… Continue Reading
William Greider – The Nation I am addicted to House of Cards, the British and American versions, but I suggest that both TV series have been looking at the wrong game. On television, the story line is about a wicked… Continue Reading
Monetary and Financial Issues in UNCTAD under Gamani Corea, by Dr. Michael Sakbani* and Speech on Gamani Corea , by Chakravarti Raghavan** Gamani Corea (4 November 1925 ? 3 November 2013) came of age as an economist at the time… Continue Reading
Paul Krugman – The New York Times It seems safe to say that ?Capital in the Twenty-First Century,? the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year ? and maybe… Continue Reading
By Mario Osava S?O LUIS, Brazil, Mar 21 2014 (IPS) – ?We are victims of progress,?complained Osmar Santos Coelho, known as Santico. His fishing community has disappeared, displaced to make way for a port complex on S?o Marcos bay, to… Continue Reading
By Philip Pilkington* – Naked Capitalism Monetarism began it?s rise to world prominence in the ever-conservative Bundesbank in 1974. But it would be the government of Margaret Thatcher in the UK, elected in 1979, that would truly launch monetarism in… Continue Reading
By Katrina vanden Heuvel – The Washington Post For the Central Intelligence Agency?s covert warriors, disdain for the law comes with their mandate. From its drone attacks to its destabilization efforts, the CIA is tasked with operating, as former vice… Continue Reading
The Jakarta Post Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and philosopher, was a vocal advocate for formerly occupied East Timor (now Timor Leste) and continues to be a proponent of the Papuan struggle for self-determination. He spoke recently with The Jakarta… Continue Reading
By James Kwak – The Baseline Scenario Mike Konczal wrote an excellent article for Democracy about the problems with a voluntary safety net and the superiority of government social insurance. The article draws on serious historical research (by other people)… Continue Reading
Bob Dreyfuss – The Nation Thanks to the Prague Post, we have the full text in English of President Vladimir Putin?s speech yesterday announcing the annexation of Crimea and, more importantly, described at great length his explanation for why the… Continue Reading
By Brian Eads – Newsweek My Paris flat is a few steps from the Boulevard des Invalides, a wide, tree-lined road which perhaps should be renamed ?Protest Alley.? When the French have a gripe, which is often, they usually clog… Continue Reading
By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ* – The New York Times The Great Divide is a series about inequality. Trade agreements are a subject that can cause the eyes to glaze over, but we should all be paying attention. Right now, there… Continue Reading
