Political Economy

10 Lessons the U.S. Can Learn From China

Ann Lee | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Political Reform, 2012 Elections, Global Economy, Foreign Affairs, Economic Reform, Soft Power, Political Economy, Banking Reform, Education Reform, Job Creation, China Economy, Culture, Foreign Policy, World News
Ann Lee

Education is the most important foundation that the U.S. can invest in, and test scores across the country are rapidly falling behind the rest of the world. Instead of having children aspire to become reality television stars.

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A Five-Point Checklist To Prepare for Another Global Crisis

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Public Spending, National Debt, Poverty, Social Security, Developing Countries, Public Debt, Banks, Financial Crisis, Political Economy, Fiscal Policy, Public Investment, Business News
Marcelo Giugale

Imagine you are minister of finance in an average developing country. Suddenly you learn that a new global crisis may be looming in the horizon.

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Economist Mark Blyth: 2011 Will Be Worse... and Life Will Go On (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Watson Insitute, Empire, Mark Blyth, Bailout, Economics, Dollar Club, Radio, Oil, Political Economy, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, Politics News
Christopher Lydon

Mark Blyth is in the pub tonight, played by Sean Connery, as usual, and demonstrating again how far a man can go in political economy just by talking ...

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On the Moral Depravity of Capitalism in 21 Tweets

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market, Guilt, Empathy, Economics, Money, Democracy, United States, Inhumanity, Political Economy, Power, Capitalism, America, Compassion, Civilization, Competition, Politics, Liberty, Zero-Sum, Wealth, West, Morality, Health Care, Social Democracy, Business News
Cynthia Boaz

I've thought a lot about it & have concluded that market capitalism is actually conducive to evil. It's not just a talking point.

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The Political Economy of FIFA, With Vishwas Satgar (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vishwas Satgar, Fifa, Radio Conversation, World, World Cup, Football, Soccer, Christopher Lydon, Political Economy, South Africa, World News
Christopher Lydon

Like the Beijing Olympics in Summer '08, this World Cup is a coming-out party, and a historic marker for Africa at the center of the maximum stage.

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'13 Bankers': Beware Of Banana Peels

Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citigroup, John Stuart Mill, Megabanks, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Arianna's Reading, Karl Marx, Recession, Political Economy, Books, 13 Bankers, Bailouts, Adam Smith, Financial Crisis, Books News
Simon Johnson

What we need is a change in the conventional wisdom in Washington, away from the idea that what is good for Wall Street is good for America, and toward the idea that we should be skeptical of the megabanks.

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Haiti vs. Chile: The Earthquake Olympics

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, Earthquake, Political Economy, Haiti, Ban Ki-Moon, Port-Au-Prince, Democracy, Free Market, Capitalism, Pat Robertson, Haitiblog, World News
John Feffer

Why did Chile suffer so much less than Haiti -- democracy? Capitalism? Divine intervention? The real real reasons for the disparity between the effects of the two quakes are considerably more prosaic.

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The Post-Berlin Aftermath: Many Walls Still Need to Be Brought Down

Jean-Pierre Lehmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slumdog Millionaire, East Berlin, Berlin Wall, East Germany, West Germany, Mumbai, Political Economy, Walls, West Berlin, Global Eonomy, London, Berlin Wall Fall, Partition, Shanghai, Dubai, Twentieth Anniversary Berlin Wall, World News
Jean-Pierre Lehmann

While the Berlin Wall may have been torn down, there remain many walls that are defiantly standing and indeed new ones that have been erected.

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A Promissory Note For the American Promise

Kit Gallant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Obama Rhetoric, The American Promise, American History, American Dream, Obama Inauguration, Martin Luther King Jr., Political Economy, African-American History, Race, ?€œI Have a Dream? Speech, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Politics News
Kit Gallant

King argued that it was the distorted state of the most fundamental conception of American political and social economy that was, in and of itself, responsible for social and economic injustice.

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