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Globalization

7 Great Books By Economists

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

There's a major panel discussion going on today in Washington, D.C. called "The Next Stage," in which economists are coming together to discuss the pr...

Reclaiming "We"

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Terrance Heath

When it comes to health care reform, the states most likely to benefit -- because they have the highest percentages of uninsured citizens -- are the source of the loudest objections to reform.

Climate Lobby Investigation Goes Global — and Digital

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Tracy L. Barnett

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change.

Ross Douthat: No Tax Cuts, Regulate To Contain Busts

New York Times | ROSS DOUTHAT | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

...As the 2010s begin, there's reason to worry that America has further to fall. Our politics are polarized, our finances are still overleveraged, and...

They're All Against Jobs

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sen. Fritz Hollings

Everyone is crying for jobs, but no one seems to understand why there aren't any. And the reason for those opposing jobs is money.

The Loudest Duck

Laura Liswood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Laura Liswood

Diverse companies can be much better and more creative, much more profitable and able to succeed globally, only if they are aware and conscious of all we bring in preconceived notions of who others are.

Perfect Desertion

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sen. Fritz Hollings

The politics of the President and the Congress, influenced by the politics of the financial community, brews into the perfect desertion.

Can Obama Redefine the "Real" in Realpolitik? The Nobel Committee Is Betting That He Can

Mark Levine | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Mark Levine

It is up to Obama to use the Prize as an opening to pursue truly transformational policies on the world stage regardless of the potential political cost to him.

America's Imperialistic Mental Illness Epidemic

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Stanton Peele

For all our self-recrimination, we have for many years been busily engaged in a project of Americanizing the world's understanding of mental health and illness.

A Clear Agenda for Reform in 2010

Gordon Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Gordon Brown

As the balance of economic power changes over the next two decades, new and stronger power-brokers may be less willing to embrace change. We must avoid this race to the bottom. Here is how.

Buying Gifts In A Globalized World: The Value Of Distance

Marta Mondelli | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Marta Mondelli

It's increasingly difficult to find gifts in a global world where Tiffany's opened stores throughout Italy and, on the other hand, local NYC and online shopping centers worldwide provide you with everything Italian.

Hickory, N.C: Jobs Go Abroad, Unemployment Surges

Peter Whoriskey | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

HICKORY, N.C. -- The expansion of global trade may enrich the United States, as economists say, but it has overwhelmed this manufacturing area beside ...

Out of Afghan, Into Trade War

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Sen. Fritz Hollings

Washington obscures the Trade War by calling it globalization. Globalization is nothing more than a trade war with production looking for countries cheaper to produce.

Rio Wins! Good News for the Global South

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder

Countries like Brazil are now in a position to compete successfully in the athletic events that comprise the Games, and also to provide the venue for the competition.

Pat Robertson's God is a Jerk

Bryan Cones | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Bryan Cones

God does not send earthquakes to punish poor people. Or tsunamis. Or AIDS. Or any other disease. Just because God does that in any number of religious texts doesn't make it so

Top 10 Medical Events Of The Decade

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Dean Ornish

In writing about the top 10 medical events of the decade, I first began writing about the latest high-tech breakthroughs in genomics, stem cell research, angiogenesis, and so on.

The Rarity of Obscurity

Mark Drapeau | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Mark Drapeau

Are you the best in the world at what you do? Ten years ago, it was very difficult to answer this question. One didn't really have a good sense of who the best shoe salesmen. Now, things are different.

Revisiting No Logo, Ten Years Later

Naomi Klein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Naomi Klein

As the new edition of my book No Logo comes out, it feels like a 'movement moment' once again. A new wave of exciting climate justice activism is underway in the lead up to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen.

Shrinking Dollar Sets Off Alarms Overseas, But Helps US

Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

The dramatic decline of the U.S. dollar is aiding the American economic recovery but setting off alarm bells overseas, with corporate executives, poli...

On the Politics of Giving and Receiving -- Obama and the Peace Prize

MJR Montoya | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
MJR Montoya

During the Nobel ceremonies, President Obama should graciously re-gift the prize, and he should instead recast it as recognition of those who have suffered through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Anis Shivani

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

Remembering 1989, Diversity in Post-Communist Europe

Barry D. Wood | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Barry D. Wood

Today, nearly 20 years after the Berlin Wall came down, freedom and diversity are the realities in post-communist Europe.

One Troop

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sen. Fritz Hollings

For now, we can solve the problems of our fiscal and trade deficits by eliminating the corporate income tax and replacing it with a 3% value added tax. This actually cuts taxes and raises more revenue.

Message to World at the G-20 Summit: Don't Depend on a Strong U.S. Recovery to Bail You Out

Rob Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Rob Shapiro

Prospects for a strong U.S. recovery are slim, especially one strong enough to help the rest of the world. And that will be the biggest, unspoken disappointment at this week's G-20 meetings.

Key Senators, Krugman Call for Tariffs on High-Carbon-Footprint Imports

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Mike Elk

In the wake of the China tire-import decision, we have heard a lot of rhetoric falsely labeling it as the beginning of a trade war. It is not. Workers around the world are engaged in an effort to protect themselves.