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Sebastian Mallaby of the Council on Foreign Relations offers some interesting thoughts in The Atlantic about the future of the Chinese economy. Downshifting is always painful, but politicians often make…
One of those tropes that leftists automatically agree with is that anyone who wants to downsize the interventionist state does so because of his greed. The doltish pseudo-economist Jeff Madrick…
Sebastian Mallaby, writing in The Atlantic, invokes the 12th-century example of Lubeck as he searches for historical precedents for the charter city concept Stanford economist Paul Romer is pushing as…
Sebastian Mallaby summarizes the problems with blaming deregulation for the current financial mess. The key financiers in this game…were by no means unregulated. U.S. investment banks, regulated by the Securities…
Brink Lindsey at the Cato Institute uses the term in his call for Libertarians and Democrats to find common ground in the current issue of The New Republic. Sebastian Mallaby…
This year, the American Left has dusted off one of its all-time favorite “issues,” the supposedly unfair distribution of income. Politicians who appeal to envy for votes the way McDonald’s…
One of the underlying themes of anything Gov. Jim Hunt does, and this week’s Emerging Issues Forum was no exception, is keeping North Carolina competitive. He often mentioned the need…
Rich Lowry found a Competitive Enterprise Institute study that makes Wal-Mart sound like a good employer as a retailer. Lowry also cites Jason Furman, the NYU scholar from last week’s…
Every ‘graph in the Mallaby piece is money, but this one gets to the heart of what’s wrong with “progressives.” “In the 1990s progressives argued loudly for the reform that…
The Washington Post‘s Sebastian Mallaby says the retailer’s critics need to consider both sides of the ledger.