Amar Bhidé is a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the author of A Call for Judgment.
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Commentaries by Amar Bhidé
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Debt Reckoning for Europe
BOSTON – Saving the euro, say the sages of the global economy, requires radical steps.& The OECD recently called for a large European fi…
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The Root of All Sovereign-Debt Crises
NEW YORK – The Greek debt crisis has prompted questions about whether the euro can survive without a nearly unimaginable centralization of f…
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Bank Regulation’s Capital Mistake
MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS – Imagine that the arguments triggered by the Hindenberg disaster were about the fire extinguishers and parachutes th…
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Tax and spend (Please)
Excessive taxation can dull incentives and hinder growth. But too little taxation can do the same. Governments with meager tax revenues can'…
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The Global Economics of Desire
How concerned should advanced countries be about the outsourcing of manufacturing to China or software development to India? Fear of jobs lo…
Debt Reckoning for Europe
Jonathan Lam: Gamesmith94134: debt reckoning for Europe “The “more integration” camp wants European governments to guarantee each other’s debts explicitly. Such schemes could eliminate risk and interest-rate dif…
Debt Reckoning for Europe
Zsolt Hermann: It is understandable that economists, financial experts only see their part of the puzzle. For a baker for example everything he sees in life leads to baking a cake. What we are missing is people who …