What We’re Reading
Michael Spence, The Sustainability Mindset
Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur, Who Should Lead the World Bank?
Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Inequality in Asia: The Local Effects of Global Capitalism
Nouriel Roubini, The Uptick’s Downside
Daniel Davies, So what would your plan for Greece be?
John Quiggin, The end of debt?
Bloomberg, Chinese Loans to Latin America Top World Bank, IDB Combined
Simon Wren-Lewis, The return of schools of thought in macroeconomics
What We’re Writing
Jennifer Clapp, Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid
Kevin P. Gallagher, Not so “sweetheart deals” from China in Latin America
Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, The Continuing Food Crisis
C.P. Chandrasekhar, The Chinese Way
Jayati Ghosh, We Need a New World Order at the World Bank
What We’re Reading
Dani Rodrik, The Nation-State Reborn
Mohamed A. El-Erian, From Argentina to Athens?
Alice H. Amsden, National companies or foreign affiliates: Whose contribution to growth is greater?
John Paul Rathbone, China lends more than $75bn to Latin America
Jeff Chelsky, Capital Account Liberalization: Does Advanced Economy Experience Provide Lessons for China?
Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick, Getting Up To Speed on the Financial Crisis
What We’re Writing
Kevin P. Gallagher, The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America and A Better Deal? Chinese Finance in Latin America
Matías Vernengo, Up to Speed, But Lagging Behind
Jayati Ghosh, Redefining Development and Quality of Life
Jeff Madrick, 10 Questions for Economists Who Oppose Manufacturing Subsidies
What We’re Reading
Bruno S. Frey, What Europe might look like without the Eurozone and EU
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Maurice Obstfeld, Understanding past and future financial crises
David Warsh, A Narrowing Gyre
The Economist’s Free exchange blog, Hysteresis: The cost of sustained unemployment
James Felkerson, $29,000,000,000,000: A Detailed Look at the Fed’s Bailout by Funding Facility and Recipient
Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian, A China Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Bilge Erten, José Antonio Ocampo, Super-Cycles of Commodity Prices Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Anna Locke, Gates and innovation in agriculture – is money the issue?
What We’re Writing
Martin Khor,Seminar warns of effects of economic downturn
Jayati Ghosh, Recipe for disaster
C.P. Chandrasekhar, Emerging Asia Next?
Ali Kadri, Notes on the fall of fertility in Russia
Kevin P. Gallagher, Will the U.S.-Colombia FTA benefit Colombia? No.
What We’re Reading
Yu Yongding, Rattling the Renminbi
Robert Johnson, Economists: A Profession at Sea
Thomas Cate, Keynes’s General Theory: Seventy-Five Years Later
Michael Hudson, Banks Weren’t Meant to Be Like This. What Will their Future Be – and What is the Government’s Proper Financial Role?
Lex, Sany Heavy: China digs in, and Beyondbrics on land grabs
Raghuram Rajan, A Crisis in Two Narratives
Andrés Velasco, Latin America’s Stymied Innovators
Josh Fischman, As Journal Boycott Grows, Elsevier Defends Its Practices
What We’re Writing
Martin Khor, Rising risk of Western war on Iran
Patrick Bond and Michael Dorsey, Steer clear of this climate ‘Ponzi scheme’
Jeff Madrick, Will Germany Bully Europe Over the Brink?
Sunita Narain, The inconvenient truth
What We’re Reading
Robert Skidelsky,Does Debt Matter?
Jeffrey Frankel,Will Emerging Markets Fall in 2012?
Olivier De Schutter, Taking Back Globalization
Bill Moyers on Occupy Wall Street
Milford Bateman and Ha-Joon Chang, Microfinance and the Illusion of Development: from Hubris to Nemesis in Thirty Years
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Perverse dependence on Asia
Martin Wolf, The world’s hunger for public goods
What We’re Writing
Kevin P. Gallagher, Capital controls are not beggar thy neighbor based on his PERI Working Paper, “The Myth of Financial Protectionism: The New (and Old) Economics of Capital Controls”
Kevin P. Gallagher on capital controls on Global Policy TV
Jayati Ghosh, Could Ecuador be the most radical and exciting place on Earth?
Jeff Madrick, Obama Makes the Case for Government
What We’re Reading
Dani Rodrik, Leaderless Global Governance
Navroz K. Dubash, Looking beyond Durban: Where to from here?
Dean Baker on the Crisis
Robert J. Shiller, Does Austerity Promote Economic Growth?
Mark Thoma, Should We Feel Sorry for the Wealthy?
Kimberly Ann Elliot, Why Is Opening the U.S. Market to Poor Countries So Hard?
Wall Street Journal, Economists Set Rules on Ethics
Roberto Sansón Mizrahi, Much more than Keynesian policies to face the global crisis
What We’re Writing
Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy, Resolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms Since 2007
Gerald Epstein on the new AEA disclosure guidelines
Jeff Madrick, Have Economists Become Something More Dangerous — Policy Wonks?
Martin Khor, Fiscal austerity causing new recession
Jayati Ghosh, Year of Centenaries
What We’re Reading
Robert Pollin and James Heintz, Transaction Costs, Trading Elasticities and the Revenue Potential of Financial Transaction Taxes for the United States
Todd Moss, What’s Wrong with Dodd-Frank’s Conflict Minerals Provision?
Stan Sorscher, How, Exactly, Does Trade Bring Prosperity?
Kemal Derviş, Global Imbalances and Domestic Inequality
Joseph Stiglitz, The Perils of 2012
Barry Eichengreen, Europe’s Vicious Spirals
What We’re Writing
Kevin P. Gallagher, Mission Creep: International Investment Agreements and Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez-Caldentey, The Euro Imbalances and Financial Deregulation: A Post-Keynesian Interpretation of the European Debt Crisis
Jeff Madrick, How Austerity is Killing Europe
C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh, India’s External Sector
Martin Khor, Will India still supply cheap drugs for the world?
What We’re Reading
Andrés Velasco, Latin America’s Monetary-Policy Test
Jagdish Bhagwati, America’s Threat to Trans-Pacific Trade
Rick Rowden, Keeping Markets Happy
Dean Baker, Climate change – our real bequest to future generations
David Roodman, Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance and New CGD Book Looks Beyond Microfinance Hype and Backlash, Recommends Improvements
Will Milberg, Why is the political class in favor of fiscal austerity when the economists are not?
Sanjay Reddy, Sanjay Ruparelia, John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge, Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A Great Transformation?
Nature, The Mask Slips: The Durban meeting shows that climate policy and climate science inhabit parallel worlds
Anton Korinek, Capital Flows, Crises and Externalities: A Primer
What We’re Writing
Jennifer Clapp, Food
Martin Khor, Year of full-fledged crises?
Sunita Narain, From protests to where in 2012?
Jayati Ghosh, Global employment in 2011: Why next year has to be different
What We’re Reading
Jim Leitner, Nuno Monteiro and Ian Shapiro, Restoring European Growth
Barry Eichengreen, Disaster Can Wait
Paul Krugman, The Burden of Debt
Kimberly Ann Elliott, No Surprises and No Momentum out of WTO Meeting
Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Book of Jobs
Steve Suppan, Lethal symmetry: the Durban climate outcome
Mark Thoma, It’s the Season for Optimism
Sarah Anderson, Mining for Profits
What We’re Writing
Mehdi Shafaeddin, Competitiveness and Development: Myths and Realities
C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh, Prospects for the World Economy in 2012
C.P. Chandrasekhar, Retail Rollback
Patrick Bond, Where is the Urgency about Climate Change?
What We’re Reading
Dani Rodrik, Occupy the Classroom? Thomas Palley, Explaining Global Financial Imbalances: A critique of the saving glut and reserve currency hypotheses
Jan Kregel, Debtors’ Crisis or Creditors’ Crisis? Who Pays for the European Sovereign and Subprime Mortgage Losses?
Anca Cristea, David Hummels and Laura Puzzello, Trade and greenhouse-gas emissions: How important is international transport?
Robert Pollin and James Heintz, Transaction Costs, Trading Elasticities and the Revenue Potential of Financial Transaction Taxes for the United States
Lili Fuhr, Liane Schalatek and Kulthoum Omari, COP 17 in Durban: A Largely Empty Package
ECLAC, Poverty and Indigence Levels Are the Lowest in 20 Years in Latin America
Javier Santiso, Emerging Markets’ Decade of Disruption
Michael Spence, The Exchange Rate Delusion
What We’re Writing
Kevin P. Gallagher, Capital controls offer growth from more stable world
Jeff Madrick, The 10 Worst Economic Ideas of 2011
Martin Khor, Divisions Beneath A Relaxed WTO Ministerial
Sunita Narain, Equity: the next frontier in climate talks
Patrick Bond on the Real News Network, Climate change and the failure of market mechanisms