Kemal Derviş
What Role for the State?
WASHINGTON, DC – The financial crisis of 2008 has spurred a global debate on how much government regulation of markets – and what kind – is …
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Four years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the global economy remains mired in low growth and high unemployment. As the income gap between top earners – including bankers, brokers, and corporate leaders – and the middle class widens, many are beginning to question whether modern capitalism is sustainable, or even desirable.
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Robert Skidelsky
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Ana Palacio
Giving the Well-Performing State Its Due
MADRID – The triumph of democracy and market-based economics – the “End of History,” as the American political philosopher Francis Fukuyama …
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J. Bradford DeLong
Re-Capturing the Friedmans
BERKELEY – On my desk right now are reporter Timothy Noah’s new book The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We C…
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Saifedean Ammous, Edmund S. Phelps
Blaming Capitalism for Corporatism
NEW YORK – The future of capitalism is again a question. Will it survive the ongoing crisis in its current form? If not, will it transform i…
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Harold James
Schadenfreude Capitalism
PRINCETON – The protracted financial and economic crisis discredited first the American model of capitalism, and then the European version. …
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Kenneth Rogoff
Is Modern Capitalism Sustainable?
CAMBRIDGE – I am often asked if the recent global financial crisis marks the beginning of the end of modern capitalism. It is a curious ques…
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Nouriel Roubini
Is Capitalism Doomed?
NEW YORK – The massive volatility and sharp equity-price correction now hitting global financial markets signal that most advanced economies…
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Ideological Crisis of Western Capitalism
NEW YORK – Just a few years ago, a powerful ideology – the belief in free and unfettered markets – brought the world to the brink of ruin. E…
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Robert Skidelsky
Life after Capitalism
LONDON – In 1995, I published a book called The World After Communism. Today, I wonder whether there will be a world after capitalism.That q…
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