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Robin Niblett

Transatlantic Trade-Offs

LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating …
Haruhiko Kuroda

India’s Growth Crossroads

MANILA – As the slowdown in the world’s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected. A serious burden w…
Paul R. Ehrlich

The Food Threat to Human Civilization

PALO ALTO – Humanity faces a growing complex of serious, highly interconnected environmental problems, including much-discussed challenges l…
Anne-Marie Slaughter

The Coming Atlantic Century

PRINCETON – The United States is rising; Europe is stabilizing; and both are moving closer together. That was the principal message earlier …

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Robert Skidelsky May 21, 2013

Austere Illusions

LONDON – The doctrine of imposing present pain for future benefit has a long history – stretching all the way back to Adam Smith and his pra…
Barry Eichengreen May 17, 2013

Open-Access Economics

CANBERRA – The brouhaha over Carmen Reinhart’s and Kenneth Rogoff’s article “Growth in a Time of Debt” may be the most conspicuous and incen…
Harold James May 2, 2013

The New Economy of Fealty

PRINCETON – Since the 2008 financial crisis, most industrial economies have avoided anything like the collapse that occurred during the Grea…
Nicholas Stern, Amar Bhattacharya, Mattia Romani et al. May 1, 2013

A New World’s New Development Bank

NEW YORK – At the conclusion of their summit in Durban in March, the leaders of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) a…
Federico Fubini Apr. 22, 2013

Europe in Depression?

MILAN – Charles P. Kindleberger, the great economic historian, once noted that the Great Depression was so deep and so long because of “Brit…
Barry Eichengreen Apr. 10, 2013

The Use and Abuse of Monetary History

BERKELEY – Imagine two central banks. One is hyperactive, responding aggressively to events. While it certainly cannot be accused of ignorin…
J. Bradford DeLong Mar. 28, 2013

Let it Bleed?

BERKELEY – In the 12 years of the Great Depression – between the stock-market crash of 1929 and America’s mobilization for World War II – pr…
Jeffrey Frankel Mar. 13, 2013

The Economist’s Stone

CAMBRIDGE – This year marks the 100th anniversaries of two distinct institutional innovations in American economic policy: the introduction …
Wonsik Choi, Richard Dobbs Feb. 22, 2013

Renewing the South Korean Miracle

SEOUL – South Korea’s incoming president, Park Geun-hye, takes over a country that has been a global role model for economic development. Bu…
Mark Roe Feb. 21, 2013

Are Stock Markets Really Becoming More Short Term?

CAMBRIDGE – In a recent commentary, I examined whether increasing pressure from more rapid stock trading is inducing corporate managers to o…

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