INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.713 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Question:Was the operation that was carried out by the US Special Forces against Osama bin Laden resulting in his death at Abbotabad in Pakistan on the night of May1 an exclusive US operation or was it a joint US-Pak operation? A: Till now the indications [...]
The Path To Arab Democracy Not Laden With Roses
April 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Hasan Afif El-Hasan IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint NEW YORK (IDN) – The struggle for the future of the Arab nations has just begun. The best thing that can be said about their uprising is that it was truly ‘made in the Arab lands by the Arab youth’. The [...]
Japan, the Forgotten Protectionist Threat
April 18, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Ian Fletcher Everyone’s worried about China today on the trade front. And they should be. But let’s not forget that China is only the most brazen player of one-way free trade out there. We ran a $273 billion deficit with China in 2010, but we also ran an $80 [...]
The Famous (and Almost Never Understood) Theory of Comparative Advantage
April 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Ian Fletcher You can read about the free trade controversy for months and never hear about it. But in the minds of real economists, it’s there all the time, and it’s big. I’m talking about the so-called theory of comparative advantage, the theoretical lynchpin—in the view of free traders and [...]
The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (9781568584348): Robert Scheer: Books
April 4, 2011 By
An accute study of the last thirty years of America’s scandalously regressive economic policy and the power of special interest lobbying that has underminded democracy. The complicity of leading Democratic and Republican party politicians in the outright pillage of Mainstreet America is documented. This book is long on important facts. From Publishers WeeklyFollowing Ronald Reagan’ [...]
Beyond Keynesianism
March 22, 2011 By
Irving Fisher’s Depression-era debt-deflation theory, then and now. Republished with permission. From the January / February Issue of Dollars & Sense Read the article in its original form. By James M. Cypher According to dominant economic ideas, massive government interventions beginning in 2007—by way of Keynesian fiscal stimulus programs of the Bush and Obama administrations, [...]
Free Trade Theory Known to be Wrong—Since 1817!
March 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Ian Fletcher The economic argument for free trade is ultimately based on the theory of comparative advantage, invented by David Ricardo in 1817. Ricardo was a London stockbroker, self-made millionaire, and Member of Parliament who became a self-taught economist. All the things we are told about why free trade [...]
Amazon.com: Failure by Design: The Story behind America’s Broken Economy (Economic Policy Institute/A State of Working America Publica) (9780801450150): Josh Bivens: Books
March 9, 2011 By
Description In Failure by Design, the Economic Policy Institute’s Josh Bivens takes a step back from the acclaimed State of Working America series, building on its wealth of data to relate a compelling narrative of the U.S. economy’s struggle to emerge from the Great Recession of 2008. Bivens explains the causes and impact on working [...]
