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What to do about very poor countries

Posted by Unknown | 6:47 AM
Matt Taibbi translates David Brooks : [ Brooks ]: Third, it is time to put the thorny issue of culture at the center of efforts to tackle gl...
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A binge is a binge

Posted by Unknown | 8:25 AM
Brad DeLong brings to my attention this article , which purports to show that America's "consumption binge" over the last coup...
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Chicago: also home to some non-insane famous economists

Posted by Unknown | 6:24 AM
I do a lot of bashing of the "Chicago School" of economics, as do a lot of other people. But it's important to remember that t...
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Conservofascism

Posted by Unknown | 5:19 AM
Via Ry, Andrew Sullivan watches Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin chat and sees a rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem to be born: What you have...
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Don't be evil.

Posted by Unknown | 7:55 AM
News story of the day : Google is no longer complying with Chinese censorship, and is threatening to pull out of China entirely! Here's ...
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Income mobility (in which Noah, possibly for the first time, defends conservative talking points from liberals' logic)

Posted by Unknown | 6:18 AM
Gasp. I'm about to do it. I'm about to defend conservative economic talking points against liberal criticisms that are well-grounded...
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The Chinese economy: to infinity and beyond?

Posted by Unknown | 7:55 AM
Robert Fogel, another of those darn pesky Economics Nobel Prize winners, has a new article out claiming that China's GDP will be $123 TR...
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Carter was better (and Reagan was worse) than you think

Posted by Unknown | 5:32 PM
Yglesias thinks Jimmy Carter - still vilified by American conservatives decades after his four-year presidency - took the fall for circumsta...
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And the backlash grows

Posted by Unknown | 7:35 AM
The backlash against the "Chicago" or "freshwater" school of economics is gathering steam, and none too soon (it would h...
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Hey Reaganites: Are we better off?

Posted by Unknown | 6:45 AM
Ask a conservative - especially a middle-aged conservative - why liberal economic policies don't work, and chances are he'll bring u...
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Conservatism, defender of the fat

Posted by Unknown | 6:25 AM
Megan McArdle writes: Making information, or fresh vegetables, available, hasn't worked--every intervention you can imagine on the volu...
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Everyone's an economist now!

Posted by Unknown | 1:45 PM
Paul Krugman recently wrote a column about how China's exchange rate policy is holding back the world's attempts to escape recessio...
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