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Niall Ferguson: An Empire at RiskAn Empire at Risk We won the cold war and weathered 9/11. But now economic weakness is endangering our global power. Call it the fractal geometry of fiscal crisis. If you fly across the Atlantic on a clear day, you can look down and see the same phenomenon but on four entirely different ...
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Sustainable industrial system: education and research contributionsOur industrial system has been responsible for raising the quality of life of peoples around the world. It is becoming increasingly clear however, that the current system is creating unintended and serious consequences for the environment at a global level. Change on a significant scale is ...
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Asian Innovation: China, India and KoreaThe rise of China and India will remake the innovation landscape. US and European pre-eminence in science-based innovation can no longer be taken for granted. Nor can the knowledge jobs that have depended upon it. Global supply chains have transformed how we make products. Our savings depend ...
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The Crash - A view from the left - ebookThe Crash offers an alternative to the compromised policies of the dominant economics. Contributors analyse and explain the economic and social issues that lie at the heart of our crisis: the credit crisis, the housing disaster, secrecy jurisdictions, the practices of private equity firms and ...
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Britain’s Shining Example of Health Care by Carol Nahra - The GlobalistA U.S. mother living in the United Kingdom relates the heartbreaking tale of losing her young child. Yet, Carol Nahra explains how she found solace in Britain’s universal healthcare system — and why Americans should reconsider some negative stereotypes of socialized medicine.
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The G20 Summit in Pittsburgh: Should You Care? - The Baseline ScenarioOn Thursday evening and all day Friday, heads of government from countries belonging to the G20 will meet in Pittsburgh. On paper, this looks important – 90 percent of world economic output and 67 percent of world population will be at the table: the G7 (US, Canada, Japan, UK, Germany, France, ...
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The IMF Should Move To Europe - The Baseline ScenarioEurope still insists on the right to nominate one of its own to be managing director of the IMF, which is an awful anachronism at this point. The New IMF could be based in London with a French boss, or in Paris with a British boss. The EU would have a powerful voice and the US would keep its ...
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The liquidity pipes remain cloggedIn the last six months, European and US central banks have poured dizzying sums into the money markets and politicians have put pressure on the banks to lend. Last week, for example, Alistair Darling, UK chancellor declared his readiness to “get tough” with banks that were failing to lend. On ...
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The vultures that prey on the poorestGordon Brown has called them perverse and immoral. Collectively, they have won court judgments against developing countries worth more than £1bn. But, at last, it seems that many so-called vulture funds may have flown for the last time. Vulture hedge funds make their money from buying up poor ...
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Is There More Than One Path To Globalization?Back in the 1990s, it seemed to many that the Anglo-Saxon economic model was superior to all others — and destined to supplant them. Now even The Economist is admitting, reluctantly, that “a new European pecking order has emerged, with statist France on top, corporatist Germany in the middle ...
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