What We’re Reading
Jared Diamond, Romney Hasn’t Done His Homework and What Makes Countries Rich or Poor?
Mahmood Mamdani, The state, private sector and market failures: A response to Prof Joseph Stiglitz
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Our Summer of Climate Truth
Rachel Cleetus, The Enormous Costs of the 2012 Drought to American Farmers and Taxpayers,
Brenda Ekwurzel, Drought Double Whammy: As the World Warms, U.S. Droughts Likely to be Hotter, More Damaging
Erika Spanger-Siegfried, 2012 U.S. Drought and Heat Expose Electricity Supply Risks
Abhijit Banerjee, Right to Food: Let’s get it right
Joseph Hanlon, Mozambique’s agricultural fortunes rest on a choice between Obama and Annan
Deepankar Basu and Amit Basole, The Calorie Consumption Puzzle in India: An Empirical Investigation
Thomas Palley, The Fed’s 2% inflation target trap
What We’re Writing
Stephany Griffith-Jones (interviewed), Robin Hood Tax to the rescue?
Jeff Madrick, A Big Banker’s Belated Apology
Jayati Ghosh, The eurozone can learn from financial crises in the developing world
Sunita Narain, When battered people took on the pesticide industry
Martin Khor, Extreme weather events on the rise