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Occupy the Classroom?

‘Applied appropriately and with a healthy dose of common sense, economics would have prepared us for the financial crisis and pointed us in the right
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Chocolate-Fueled Growth

‘This needs to change. The orthodox agriculture-led growth strategy of the 1960’s, the favored antidote to five decades of a “happy peasant” aid doctrine, must ...
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A Democratic Burma?

‘Thein Sein’s decision to halt the project is clearly an important policy shift. It is also a signal to the outside world that Burma’s new ...
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Putin’s Brezhnev Syndrome

‘Russia has most of the usual features of rentier states: autocracy, weak political and judicial institutions, arbitrary governance, lack of the rule of law, little ...
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A Shift from the Middle East to the Pacific

‘And so, with America’s withdrawal from Iraq paving the way for the administration’s tectonic policy shift on Asia, Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ...
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Defense and Democracy in America

‘Had the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq gone well, perhaps the US could accept the costs and manner of authorization. But they did not go ...
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New Hope on Global Warming

‘But recent climate science may offer hope. Research indicates that black carbon (the soot from inefficient combustion in stoves, fires, engines, etc.) belongs to a ...
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Egypt’s Headless Revolution

‘Ideological polarization, leadership struggles, inflated egos, and inexperience in coalition management and negotiations caused serious rifts within the ranks of opposition politicians. One leading activist ...
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Democracy in the Congo?

‘It is facile to blame the current situation on colonial plunder and post-colonial corruption. Joseph Kabila has made only token efforts to rein in corruption, ...
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Start-Up Soup

‘Nowadays, many start-up companies – particularly Internet start-ups – are raising serious amounts of capital for their stones alone. Some are getting so far as ...
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