What We’re Reading
Joseph E. Stiglitz, After Austerity
Andrew DeWit, Japan’s remarkable renewable energy drive – after Fukushima
Peter Wahl, Inching towards a financial transaction tax
Suranjana Bhaduri, Free Trade and Inclusive Development: Lessons from the Indian Experience
Antonio Vives, What are the social responsibilities of financial institutions?
José Gabriel Palma, Homogeneous middles vs. heterogeneous tails, and the end of the ‘Inverted-U’: the share of the rich is what it’s all about
Skip Laitner, Desert Year: Doing a 180 on Energy
What We’re Writing:
Timothy A. Wise with Sophia Murphy, Interview in “The Road to Rio” from UNCSD
Jeff Madrick, The Path to a Stronger Democracy Lies in Strengthening Community
Marin Khor, New UN Institutions for Sustainable Development? and Generics Under Threat: Can India still supply cheap medicines for the world?
What We’re Reading
Nancy Birdsall, The Global Financial Crisis: The Beginning of the End of the “Development” Agenda?
Jim Puzzanghera, Government stimulus moves may have ended recession, study finds
Wally Turbeville, Simplifications and Misinformation on Oil Speculation
Sarah Anderson, High-speed trading alive and well on Wall Street
Andres Velasco, The Last Argentine Picture Show
Dani Rodrik, Ideas Over Interests
What We’re Writing
Martin Khor, UNCTAD gets fresh mandate
Matías Vernengo in UNCTAD’s Development and Globalization: Facts and Figures 2012, Development Challenges and Policies to Overcome the Crisis and Long-standing Challenges
Mark Blyth, The Failure of the Euro?
C. P. Chandrasekhar, The real paralysis
Sunita Narain, Pollution: the great leveller
Jayati Ghosh, A policy for industry and UNCTAD is Astute and Progressive: So why don’t developed countries like it?
Jennifer Clapp and Eric Helleiner, Troubled futures? The global food crisis and the politics of agricultural derivatives regulation
What We’re Reading
Thomas Palley, From Financial Crisis to Stagnation: The Destruction of Shared Prosperity and the Role of Economics
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Argentina is right
Zsolt Darvas, Competitiveness adjustment in euro-area periphery
Margaret Myers, China’s engagement with Latin America: More of the same?
Doreen Stabinsky, Draft report on food security and climate change falls short
Simon Lester, Meet the New BIT, Same as the Old BIT
Annie Lowrey, For Two Economists, the Buffett Rule Is Just a Start
IMF, April 2012 World Economic Outlook: Growth Resuming, Dangers Remain
Rick Rowden, Rich Countries Seek to Block UN From Working on Global Finance Reforms
David Shaman, Energy and focus: where transparency and international development have merged in the 21st Century
Kemal Derviş, A World of Convergence
What We’re Writing
Jeff Madrick, The Path to a Stronger Democracy Lies in Strengthening Community
Elizabeth A. Stanton, Reason, empathy, and fair play for a better climate policy
Patrick Bond, South Africa’s dangerously unsafe financial intercourse
Matias Vernengo, The inflation expectations fairy
What We’re Reading
Robert Skidelsky, Down with Debt Weight
William Greider, The Federal Reserve Turns Left
Nancy Birdsall, What should the new World Bank president focus on in his first year?
Kwesi Botchwey, Akbar Noman, Howard Stein and Joseph Stiglitz, Good Growth and Governance in Africa: Rethinking Development Strategies
Charles A.E. Goodhart and Wolf Wagner, Regulators should encourage more diversity in the financial system
INET, Paradigm Lost: Rethinking Economics and Politics
Robert Costanza, What can we expect from Rio+20?
What We’re Writing
Jennifer Clapp and Eric Helleiner, International political economy and the environment: back to the basics?
Martin Khor, Battle to save UNCTAD’s mandate
Sunita Narain, More to junk food than meets the eye
Jayati Ghosh, Flagships Adrift
C. P. Chandrasekhar, Critical Perspectives on the Great Recession
What We’re Reading
James K. Galbraith, Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis
Julia Olmstead, Ethanol, antibiotics and what we don’t know
David Bicchetti and Nicolas Maystre, The rise of the machine: Does high-frequency trading alter commodity prices?
J. Bradford DeLong, Spending cuts to improve confidence? No, the arithmetic goes the wrong way
Partha Dasgupta and Anantha Duraiappah, The Mismeasure of Wealth
Raghuram Rajan, The Trouble with Libertarian Paternalism
What We’re Writing
Ilene Grabel, Financial Architectures and Development: Resilience, Policy Space, and Human Development in the Global South
Jayati Ghosh, Using the Potential of BRICS Financial Co-operation
Martin Khor, Worrisome rise of super malaria
Matias Vernengo, The Economist and Argentina
Patrick Bond, Promise-breaking at the World Bank
What We’re Reading
José Antonio Ocampo, My pitch to build a brave new World Bank
Andrew Ranallo, U.S. exports obesity epidemic to Mexico, says new study
ICTSD, Currency, Trade Relationship in the Spotlight at WTO Seminar
Walter Russell Mead, BRICS: The Whole Is Much Less Than The Sum of the Parts
Annie Lowrey, Why José Antonio Ocampo Wants to Run the World Bank
Joseph Stiglitz, Whose World Bank?
What We’re Writing
Jeff Madrick, The Truth Will Set Us Free from Anti-Government Rhetoric
C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh, Post-Crisis Reform: a lost opportunity?
Martin Khor, Rio Plus 20 Summit issues hotly debated
Sunita Narain, How India is getting gas and coal policy wrong
Patrick Bond, Crony Capitalism 2.0 and the Wretched of South Africa
Mark Blyth, How Germany gets to eat our lunch
What We’re Reading
Erlend Nier and Ouarda Merrouche, The global financial crisis – What caused the build-up?
Marianne Fay, Stéphane Hallegatte, Geoffrey Heal, and David Tréguer, From growth to green growth
Aaditya Mattoo, Prachi Mishra, and Arvind Subramanian, Beggar-thy-neighbours? Spillover effects of exchange rates
Nancy Birdsall, Three Questions to Ask the Three Candidates to Lead the World Bank
Simon Johnson and James Kwak, Abandoning Gold Helped Dollar Gain Preeminence
Yu Yongding, China’s Struggle to Slow
INET, China’s FX Flow Framework
Alan Gelb , Kai Kaiser, and Lorena Viñuela, How Much Does Natural Resource Extraction Really Diminish National Wealth? The Implications of Discovery
IATP Series: 2012 Farm Bill: What’s at Stake?
Amar Bhattacharya and Susanne Quadros, Commodity Market Developments and Differential Impacts on Developing Countries
What We’re Writing
Jeff Madrick, Eurozone Follies: Confusing Callousness for Courage and Rediscovering Government
C. P. Chandrasekhar, Mutiny of the Minority Shareholder
C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh, The great fuel subsidy hoax
Gerald Epstein on The Real News Network, Banking Technocrats Undermine Democracy
Sunita Narain, More of the same, and the same is not enough
What We’re Reading
Robert Skidelsky, Why Fair Trade?
Yılmaz Akyüz, The Staggering Rise of the South?
Michael J. Sandel, What Isn’t for Sale?
Carlos Correa, Prevailing Institutions and Mechanisms for Technology Cooperation
MIT News, Development economist Alice Amsden dies at 68
Paul Davidson, Is Economics a science? Should economics be rigorous?
Robert Shiller, The Euro’s Imagined Community
What We’re Writing
Jeff Madrick, Can Americans Trust Government Again?
Martin Khor, An end to modern medicine?
Sunita Narain, Grand distraction called river interlinking
Stephany Griffith-Jones, Why critics are wrong about a financial-transaction tax and
What makes Jose Antonio Ocampo a good candidate for President of the World Bank
Kevin P. Gallagher, Forget the received wisdom: Chinese finance in Latin America is a win-win
What We’re Reading
Carlos Correa, Prevailing Institutions and Mechanisms for Technology Cooperation
Lídia Cabral and John Howell, Measuring aid to agriculture and food security
Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Credit at Times of Stress: Latin American Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
Jesús Muñoz, Orthodox versus Heterodox (Minskyan) Perspectives of Financial Crises
Dani Rodrik, Free-Trade Blinders
Greg Smith, Why I am leaving Goldman Sachs
Felicity Lawrence, ‘The global food system is causing a public health disaster’
Paul Kagame and Kanayo F. Nwanze, Climate-Smart Smallholders
Kemal Derviş, The Inequality Trap
What We’re Writing
Jayati Ghosh, India’s Bilateral Investment Treaties: Worst fears realized
Sunita Narain, New business for new renewables
C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh, The age of ‘high’ oil
Ali Kadri, Unemployment in the Post-revolutionary Arab World
Martin Khor, Fukushima- one year later
Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez-Caldentey, The euro imbalances and financial deregulation: A post Keynesian interpretation of the European debt crisis
Kevin P. Gallagher, At 65, the IMF is changing – for the better
What We’re Reading
Thomas Palley, From Financial Crisis to Stagnation: The Destruction of Shared Prosperity and the Role of Economics
Barry Eichengreen and Kevin H O’Rourke, A tale of two depressions redux
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Burma’s Turn
William D. Nordhaus, Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong
Bill McKibben, Why Not Frack?
Charles A.E. Goodhart and Enrico Perotti, Preventive macroprudential policy
Diane Coyle, Are economics graduates fit for purpose?
Econbrowser, Factors in the recent oil price increases
The Economist, A fall to cheer
New Journal: Review of Keynesian Economics
What We’re Writing
Kevin P. Gallagher, Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development and Taming the liquidity tide
C.P. Chandrasekhar, Taking American business back home
Martin Khor, Alarm over damage from mining and resource use
Jayati Ghosh, Worrying trend