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Matthew Cummins

Matthew Cummins

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Matthew Cummins is an economist who has worked at the United Nations Development Programme, UNICEF, and the World Bank. 

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    Goodbye to the German Status Quo

    Melvyn B. Krauss

    Strong performances by the Greens and the Social Democrats in Germany's federal election have made it likely that outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats will be consigned to the opposition. The hope now is that German economic policy will start to look to the future, rather than merely the present.

     sees the federal election outcome as a renunciation of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's legacy.
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    America's Lost World

    Leonard Benardo & Ivan Krastev

    The idea of America as a cultural wellspring and bastion of freedom was always an artifact of the Cold War. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Americans increasingly have struggled to articulate what they really stand for.

     review two recent books examining the country's post-war cultural boom and bust.
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