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
Following the conclusion of the UN Climate Change Conference of COP 17 & CMP 7 in Durban, South Africa, and as part of our Spotlight Durban series, Triple Crisis recommends the following analyses on the package of decisions adopted at Durban and what they mean for the Kyoto Protocol and the 2020 successor agreement.
Triple Crisis bloggers
Martin Khor, New talks launched at Durban , The Fight at the Heart of the Durban Climate Talks, and Gloomy Outlook in Durban
Sunita Narain, Choice is between a rock and a hard place and Durban’s final hours
Patrick Bond, A dirty deal coming down in Durban and Occupy Durban
Frank Ackerman, Climate stalemate in Durban: What can be done?
Elizabeth Stanton, Climate change gets personal and Taking Development and Emission Reduction Seriously
Edward Barbier, A REDD and green paradox
Other Commentaries
Robert Stavins, Assessing the Climate Talks — Did Durban Succeed?
Fiona Harvey and John Vidal, Durban Deal will not avert catastrophic climate change
John Broder, Climate Talks in Durban Yield Limited Agreement
Oxfam, Climate deal fails poor people
Durban Climate Deal: The verdict , a compilation of reactions from world leaders at The Guardian
Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson, Climate Justice
Jagdish Bhagwati, Deadlock in Durban
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What We’re Reading
Mark Muller and Richard Levins: Feeding the World?: Twelve Years Later, U.S. Grain Exports Are Up, So Too Is Hunger
Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson, Climate Justice
Joseph Stiglitz,What Can Save the Euro?
Steve Suppan, The Durban pantomime
World Economics Association Newsletter, Volume 1 Issue 1, with commentary from Ha-Joon Chang, Dani Rodrik, James Galbraith, C. P. Chandrasekhar and many others.
Arvind Subramanian, India’s growth in the 2000s: Four facts
Lucas Ferraz, Emerson Marçal, and Vera Thorstensen, Effects of exchange-rate misalignments on tariffs
Michael Hudson, Debt and Democracy: Has the Link been Broken?
Lisa Friedman: Auditors find World Bank skipped policy steps in approving huge South African coal plant
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh, Can Danilo Atilano Feed the World?
Mario I. Blejer and Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Keep the IMF Out of Europe
CSE India Durban Coverage
What We’re Writing
Martin Khor, Gloomy Outlook in Durban
Sunita Narain, Choice is between a rock and a hard place
Jeff Madrick, The Eurozone Embraces the Austerity Albatross
Jayati Ghosh, Democracy and Financial Markets
C.P. Chandrasekhar, The retail counter-revolution
Kevin Gallagher, The IMF must heed G20 decisions
What We’re Reading
Yu Yongding, The China Bears’ Feeble Growl
Sarah Anderson, Occupy the Budget
Nancy Folbre in The New York Times, Occupy Economics
Beyondbrics video, LatAm fears China slowing
Jeffrey Frankel, The hour of the technocrats
Ben Lilliston, Civil society in Durban: “Reject carbon markets for agriculture”
Jagdish Bhagwati, Deadlock in Durban
Pranab Bardhan, More Unequal than Others
What We’re Writing
Kevin P. Gallagher, The IMF must heed G20 decisions
Martin Khor, Need to assess costs, benefits of FTAs
C.P. Chandrasekhar, The retail counter-revolution and The end of Europe?
Sunita Narain on Durban, Choice is between a rock & a hard place and What about the natural debt crisis?
Jayati Ghosh, Tyranny of finance and Is a Universal Social Net Good Macro Economics?
James K. Boyce with Econ4, Econ4 Statement on OWS